Gordon, I am running the very last version, 1.1.7 ...

Hi,
I tried the explanations but sadly that did NOT work.
Maybe for the simple reason the the slider block is Missing (!) from the install pack!
I did not install the demo and do not wish to do so as this will clogg the database with tons of stuff I'll have to delete afterwords.

So the "Main Page Banner Slider" block does NOT exist and I see no way to create it even with the developper plugin.
The blocks/banner_block/one_by_one_slider_banner_block.tpl seems to be missing as well from the standard installation.

Given the above, could you please help me with the missing files?
I really need that front page slider.

 Thank you!
 

This is an other one really bugging me and I cannot figure out how to fix it!
I am annoyed that even if not active only for a few minutes (5 to 10 maybe) I am asked to log back in!
I tried setting the session value to as high as 12000 in admin > system > system > "Control Panel Session Expiration:" but to no avail ! Nothing changed, the behaviour remains the same no matter what I enter in that box.

Anyone knows how to fix? Thx

Anyone knows of a way to add some description to the options?
It's quite "dry" to only have an option title, people always (and especially online) look for detailed descriptions.

Thanks!

How can we have something like a short description to be displayed for a product on the category listing page (the grid view), just under the image and before the "add to cart" button?

I have noticed you use the full product description in the "row" listing, which I don't think it's a great idea either. No user wants to see in a product listing the products with their full (!) descriptions. So this too should be somehow truncated.

All shopping carts have such an option and it's very useful to give the visitor an idea about what the product is about ... (but not let him read the whole story there)

An "in extremis" solution could be to use the first 200 characters (or first N words) from the usual description as a short description, anyone knows how can we achieve that (the code ?!) ?

I tried to adds smth. like this in product_listing.tpl but it did not work ...

<?php
 $text1 = $product['description'];
private function truncate($text1, $length) {
   $length = abs((int)$length);
   if(strlen($text1) > $length) {
      $text = preg_replace("/^(.{1,$length})(\s.*|$)/s", '\\1...', $text1);
   }
   return($text1);
}

  ?>
Could anyone please react to this and offer some help?

Thx a lot!

Hi,

Can anyone please tell where I can find the URL of a certain category to embed it in a custom menu?
(in the admin somewhere?!?)

THX

Thank you all for your feedback!

I did not look at coupons for this particular issue but yes, I've read the other documentation and it said nothing about options and products with options.

Conclusion: it is actually NOT possible to apply a discount on a product build out of priced options only, even for the simple reason that one cannot know the final price in advance as it depends on the kind and amount of options chosen by the customer. And as long as I do not know the final product price it's not possible to decide in advance about a certain fix amount to be applied as a discount.

It remains the workaround with the coupons which in certain situations only could be a solution.

well, I don't know what it is, fact is I am still in the stage of evaluating what the cart can do and if I could use it 
So before talking about any customizations I 1st need to know if this cart is the solution in the 1st place.

I was just looking for information about where those price calculations happen and how are the variables called so that I know what I search for ...

Could you help by answering that?

Is smth like what I wrote doable with this cart ?

Thank you in advance!