Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/docs/ability/ View customisation tab.

If its not working I can only assume it's to do with where your editing your code. Double check it. Below is a vital bit of information regarding installations of add ons etc on Ability, and I quote.

"Now, the main template repository is skin/common_files
Any files in skin/ability, will override those in /skin/common_files"

Basically any files that need to be edited in the skin/common_files/ directory will actually need to be edited will be in skin/ability/ :-)

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

When you click any of the red car images in the "Promotions" or "Special Offers" boxes in the left column, is something suppose to happen? It changes to a magnifying glass on image mouseover, but when you click it, it does nothing. Is this suppose to work this way, just curious?

Or do we code our own links in each image?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

They're just there for demo purposes, you can use them or remove them.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks, I just wasn't sure if anything special happened like they opened up a lightbox image gallery or something :)

As a sidenote Phil, did you get my PM regarding the custom mod?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I did yes, looks easy enough, I'll be in touch.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Phil,

Is the Ability Template compatible with the Smarty 3 upgrade that Xcart just released.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

There's no reason why not, but be aware of what you are getting into first, as it will probably interfere with your mods, due to deprecated Smarty tags etc.

Also, people are reporting it's slower than v2.x.

If it ain't broke...

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Quick tip to disable IE8 standards mode...

skin/common_files/customer/meta.tpl

Replace...
With...
...which should enable rounded corners and other CSS3 effects in IE9 etc.

Not sure why QT are still doing this, even in v4.5.0 !

Quick View in Ability Template on v4.4.5
 

The Quick View feature on my xcart v4.4.5 development site is showing a market price of 0.00 but I don't want to show the market/list price there if I have the market price set in the product backend to zero. The product details page doesn't show the market price when the product backend has that field set to empty/zero but the market price does still show, at zero, in Quick View.

It's seems clear that quick_view.tpl must be edited to alter this.

What is the best code change to correct this minor flaw, in a way that the market price will still show if it's not set at zero?

/ability/custom/addons/quick_view/quick_view.tpl

Below seems like the relevant bit of code to change from that template but how should it best be changed? Presumably the first smarty tag has to be altered. Can someone guide me on that?

{if $product.list_price}<div class='grid_6'><b>{$lng.lbl_market_price}:</b></div><div class='grid_6'>{$config.General.currency_symbol}{$ product.list_price}</div><div class='clearing'></div>{/if}

Re: Quick View in Ability Template on v4.4.5
 

Try the following. If price is zero I removed the "add to cart" link also. Changes are shown in red. If you copy and paste and the quick view does not work then insert the changes into the original line of code. Do not add any spaces or it won't work.

Replace:
With This:

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks for trying to help out here, elmirage001. However, I'm trying to change the code for "list price" or "market price" not for product price. That's why I quoted this code in particular to begin with.

{if $product.list_price}<div class='grid_6'><b>{$lng.lbl_market_price}:</b></div><div class='grid_6'>{$config.General.currency_symbol}{$ product.list_price}</div><div class='clearing'></div>{/if}

Following your example, perhaps the addition of 'gt 0' inside the first smarty {if} statement would do the job, as shown next?

{if $product.list_price gt 0}<div class='grid_6'><b>{$lng.lbl_market_price}:</b></div><div class='grid_6'>{$config.General.currency_symbol}{$ product.list_price}</div><div class='clearing'></div>{/if}

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Please list the actual values in your back end for this example:

1. Price ($): =
2. List price (market price) ($): =

Please list the value you want to show in Quick View:

Price: =

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

For an example product in my store, currently, the back end shows

Price ($): $225.99
List price (market price) ($): 0.00

[If I leave the list price field blank then save the result, xcart won't allow that field to be empty--it adds 0.00 to the field.]

In Quick View I want to show Price ($) and I want to show List price (market price) ($) too, BUT ONLY WHEN the back end value of list price is greater than zero.

At this time Quick View shows list price EVEN WHEN list price in the back end is set to zero.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Sorry, the code you listed below is not in my version so when I was looking at the template code I could not see it.


Try this code:


The <s></s> is for the strike-thru the dollar amount. You can leave in or take out which ever you want.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks for your patient help. Modification of the one smarty tag in question gave the desired result.

I changed

{if $product.list_price}

to

{if $product.list_price gt 0}

This I would suggest is a minor flaw in the Ability template coding.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Glad it worked for you but I would suggest you not call it a flaw. All software programs have bugs. It is absolutely impossible to create code in a timely fashion at an affordable price and to take into consideration every scenario the masses will throw at it.

Spend some time learning how to read the code and then you will appreciate the incredible amount of time and effort Phil puts into his mods.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I found that the special offers tab was not appearing on the products for 4.5.0 at least (I think it affects 4.4.x as well).

There was an inncorrect variable in skin\ability\custom\addons\tabs\tabs_*.tpl files:

There are two entries of
{if $active_modules.Special_Offers && $offers ne ""}

It should be modified to be
{if $active_modules.Special_Offers && $product_offers ne ""}

Just thought I'd pass that along as it impacted one of the sites I was working on.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I've been following this thread, and if I missed a post about this already, I apologize. I'm almost done with adapting this template to our site, and I'm very happy with it. I am using the header_style_2.tpl, and I was wondering is there an easy way to get the Login link at the top to be a popup window like it does in the Authentication box? I've tried just adding the


code to the <option></option> tag, but that didn't work.

Also, would it be easy to add the qr code to the receipt/invoice/packing list that we print out from the admin section? I added a packing list mod that i found in the forums, and it would be cool to have that on there. Thanks!

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

EU Cookie Law

Just noticed that this law has now come into force, so (as I read it) you need some sort of pop-up on your site which asks users to agree to cookies.

Has anyone used any of the "free" pop-ups such as http://civicuk.com/assets/scripts/cookie-submit.js with Ability?

Folks at xcartmods: As this is EU wide any thoughts on what we need to be doing ?

Cheers

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I use the horizontal dropdown menu which works great. I have an art category which I have used {if $c.order_by eq "070"} to separate it from the rest. However, I have 40 subcats for this category and it lists every one of them in one long column. I would like to use a select box for this category like the manufacturer dropdown which uses JQuery Chozen. How would I do this for my art category to display the subcats?

Ability 4.5.0 990px product page woes
 

I'm setting up a 2000+ item store and want it fixed for 1024 resolution monitors. I picked 990px in the setup. The current selected menu is X-Cart standard. I tried having the product description in the tabs, but it did not help.

The built in product page spacing does not match what I want the site to look like. If I increase site width to 1280 px, it starts to look better, but I don't want to do that.

Attached are 3 images, my current 990px results, 1280px, and the 990px I want (photo-edited from the real screen shots).

I'm on a deadline to get the site up within 3 weeks, and editing I tried has not worked (grid.css I don't understand - yet). Is there a set of easy maneuvers I can to to get what I want. If not, is someone available to figure it out, send me the changes, and bill me?

The development site is frogazon.com. Keep in mind it may not look the same if I continue to try stuff.

Thanks.

http://www.frogazon.com/images/help/what_I_am_getting.jpg

http://www.frogazon.com/images/help/1280_fixed.jpg

http://www.frogazon.com/images/help/what_I_want.jpg

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

It looks like the width: value for .grid_10 is incorrect in grid.css

Please change the 40.5% back to 60.5% and see what happens. Also try setting both grid values to 8 instead of <div class="grid_6... and <div class="grid_10...

frogazon.com

Original

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I can't seem to find any reference to Facebook in this forum or in the documentation. I want to add a button a bottom like Twitter. Any help would be appreciated.

Problem in post 261 resolved
 

In post 261 above, elmirage001 pointed out that I had changed a number in grid.css. That was actually part of my trial and error experimenting. I was closer than I thought to getting my problem nailed. Though elmirag001's advice was a bit general, it encouraged me to try again.

I added one more line (and changed the % to fine tune, and I got mostly want I wanted. I still need to get the social media links organized, but I'm confident I can do it.

What helped me the most was I upgraded Firefox and Firebug to the latest versions, and the information provided is much easier to understand than my old versions. See the image below for an example. Find line 163 in grid.css and make adjustments there.

http://www.frogazon.com/images/help/what_did_it.jpg

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

You don't change the width percentages of the grid css. The grid is based upon 16 columns. Change the width back to 60.5% and change your grid_6 and grid_10 to the values you need. You should try values of 8 and 8 first.

From http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/docs/ability/

How do I use the Grid System?

In the main content column, you can make use of up to 16 flexible columns in any combination.
Let's say you want two columns, one 1/4 wide, the other 3/4 wide, then you would code it like this... Let's say you want four equal columns, then you would code it like this...

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi. Do you have any products in the demo that show more than one image?
Thanks.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

OK, point well taken. Ability is an incredibly fine product! Thanks (again) Phil for creating this, and ElMirage for providing guidance in getting under the hood to tweak it.

Ability Template Product List display problem
 

I have the product list options in my development store set to 3 products per row (grid/row switchers enabled). The display of the products in each category on my store works just as I hoped and expected for all products in either grid view or row view. EXCEPT for one category--with that particular category there are some empty spaces in grid view (and none in row view.)

What's particularly odd about it is that there are other categories with about the same number of products, and some of the included products shown as in stock and some as out of stock in some of the categories just as with the problem category, but those other categories all display the grid view properly with no gaps.

The problem persists no matter how the products are sorted on the front end (SKU, price, etc), and no matter how they're sorted on the backend (position).

I've attached a JPG screen shot.

Thanks for any help with this oddity!

XCart 4.4.5
Ability Template 1.051
www.twinoakshammocks.com is the live URL.
The development URL is not live on the web (is in a password protected folder).

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Jmccunep! Yes I remember having some issues like that. I also use 3 column display for my products.

In the Ability "Products Display Options" --> "Products display" try using the Smart Columns" option. That's what I've been using and it's been working fine for me.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Phil, I know you're working your tail off on Adapt and putting out your daily fires so I'm just trying to help with some of the easier questions. I'll go back into lurker mode as soon as you start posting again. I can't wait to see what you've been working on. Thanks for all you do! Paul

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks ElMirage. I tried switching to Smart Columns in the Product Display options just now but that didn't fix the problem. Any other ideas?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Any chance you could add a temp user/pass and PM me with the info? I could take a much better look and our communications won't fill up Phil's thread. If we can't solve together it will be time to open a ticket with Phil. Thanks! Paul

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Run into this issue with the active tab behavior.

If you have a "Related Products" tab and are actively in it when you click on a product in it, when the related product is displayed AND that product too has a related products tab, it will set you to that tab instead of the details tab (#1) on the new product.

Pretty sure the issue could be solved with a change to /ability/custom/js/common.js. I think in the PRODUCT TABS function, one of the cookie checks needs to be adjusted, but I'm a huge JS guru.

Any thoughts? Anyone else notice this? I noticed it but didn't thing it was real big issue until one of my clients noticed it and mentioned it to me.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

My store have 2 languages, English and Thai. If we use the "drop down select box" or "single line select box (text, full language name)", and go to "Your shopping cart is empty" page (http://www.allergy-freefoods.com/store/cart.php). We will not see the language name in the language selector. It will display ~~~~|languang_en| ||~~~~ and ~~~~|languang_th| ||~~~~

Anyone encounter the same problem?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hello,

Is there a way to increase/decrease the length of time between headlines scrolling on the ticker? I looked through jquery.ticker.js, and it's above my pay grade. Thanks!

Tim

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I see this too in my set up with product above and tabs below. Also if you select a tab that is available for one product and then select a product that does not have that tab option then you see the available tabs with nothing displayed below the tabs. Hopefully Phil will have an easy fix.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I found a quick fix to this.

The cookie active_ptab was set to expire at 30 days. I set the cookie to expire immediately and it more or less works.

This change is on line 176 of common.js, simple change {expires 30} to {expires 0}.

Note I'm not 100% sure of all the unintended consequences of this but it works as far as I can tell. Not sure why you'd need 30 days on remembering an active tab, much less more than possibly a few seconds. Perhaps PhilJ can enlighten us or let us know if this will cause other issues.

But as far as I can tell, this at least makes the tabs usable with the related and upsell/other products.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks Jazzmang, I will try to fix the tabs issue asap.


skin/ability/custom/addons/addons_common.tpl

Around line 77 try adjusting this value...

tickerRate: 80,

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Found a problem with the sort by feature.

The JavaScript posts back to just "home.php", which IE doesn't handle right. It gives a 404 error.

I did a quick fix by adding / in front of URL and it works fine now.

This was done in skin/ability/customer/main/search_sort_by.tpl.

All I did was change two lines #10 and #11 by adding "/" infront of {$cur_url} wit the end result being:

<option{if $smarty.get.sort eq $name && $smarty.get.sort_direction eq 0} selected="selected"{/if} value="/{$cur_url}sort={$name}&sort_direction=0" class="sort_asc">{$field} &uarr;</option>{* Ascending *}

and

<option{if $smarty.get.sort eq $name && $smarty.get.sort_direction eq 1} selected="selected"{/if} value="/{$cur_url}sort={$name}&sort_direction=1" class="sort_desc">{$field} &darr;</option>{* Descending *}

Seems to have fixed the issue in IE 9 and works fine still in FF 13. That's all I have on my laptop to test with at the moment, I'll do a more through run through of various browsers when I get to work.

UPDATE
Also I found last night that the default "Sort by" value of is blank,
i.e. <option value="" selected="selected">{$lng.lbl_sort_by}</option>

So if a user selects "Sort by..." (which I don't know why but I'm seeing users doing this) it bounces you back to the home page. I fixed this by chaning the value to "/{url}" so that it just takes you back to where you were already. More or leess just idiot proofing the sort menu.

So line 3 in search_sort_by.tpl goes to:
<option value="/{$url}" selected="selected">{$lng.lbl_sort_by}</option>