Needing to be pointed to the right places

Mynex · #1 04-30-2010, 02:22 PM

I have 7 issues, most are just me needing to be pointed to the right place.. well probably all of them are... So here goes;

1. When clicking on a category (or sub) and products are listed (3 column) the short description does not show up; How do I get this to show?

2. On an individual item page, the SKU is showing, even though I have the option to show SKU off in the configuration. Is this a bug or is there more than one place for this setting?

3. On the flyout menus - My catgory names are to long - where do I got to change the char limit in the flyout menus?

4. I've changed out the xlogo.gif with my own - where/how do I go to change the URL associated with it (I want it to point back to my website, not the Store itself)

5. Under the 'Home' option for users - where/how do I go to change the URL associated with that?

6. I want my browsers page title (my company name) to be static rather than change by categories/product/etc - where/how do I go to change this?

7. I need a reminder of the specific file to edit the welcoming page "this is for demo..." - The 'documentation' on going to webmaster mode isn't clear enough to me

I've looked through the edit templates sections... but there's so many files there I'm pretty sure I've missed where to make some of these changes...

so any help here would be appreciated, just point me in the right direction and I'll beat on it.

Version: xcart gold 4.3.1

W. Robert Reed III

cflsystems · #2 04-30-2010, 04:07 PM

1. When clicking on a category (or sub) and products are listed (3 column) the short description does not show up; How do I get this to show? Edit skin1/customer/main/products_t.tpl

2. On an individual item page, the SKU is showing, even though I have the option to show SKU off in the configuration. Is this a bug or is there more than one place for this setting? Edit skin1/customer/main/product_details.tpl

3. On the flyout menus - My catgory names are to long - where do I got to change the char limit in the flyout menus? Edit skin1/modules/Flyout_Menus/categories.tpl

4. I've changed out the xlogo.gif with my own - where/how do I go to change the URL associated with it (I want it to point back to my website, not the Store itself) Edit skin1/customer/head.tpl

5. Under the 'Home' option for users - where/how do I go to change the URL associated with that? Not sure what you need here

6. I want my browsers page title (my company name) to be static rather than change by categories/product/etc - where/how do I go to change this? I would advice against that - having same title for each page will get you in trouble with SE. If you still wanna do it just hard code it in skin1/customer/service_head.tpl

7. I need a reminder of the specific file to edit the welcoming page "this is for demo..." - The 'documentation' on going to webmaster mode isn't clear enough to me. Welcome page is skin1/customer/main/welcome.tpl

Mynex · #3 04-30-2010, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by cflsystems

5. Under the 'Home' option for users - where/how do I go to change the URL associated with that? Not sure what you need here

on the main screen (after login) in the upper right corner you have: Home, Shopping Cart, & Contact Us.

The 'Home' there always points back to the xcart main page. I'd like it to point back to my main site instead.

And thank you for the information for the other ones! Muchly appreciated!

cflsystems · #4 04-30-2010, 07:34 PM

These links are defined in admin/administration/speed bar

P.S. in 4.3.1 may be under something else then "administration" but it is "speed bar"

Mynex · #5 05-01-2010, 08:10 AM

Okay, I've reduced my list to just 2 items, thanks for all the help so far!

These last 2 I'm so missing something here...

3. On the flyout menus - My catgory names are to long - where do I got to change the char limit in the flyout menus?
Edit skin1/modules/Flyout_Menus/categories.tpl

Okay, either I'm not seeing what needs to be edited to expand the # of characters to display, or I've got to add it... Can someone please be specific with what I need to do here? I only need to add like 3 characters to the default string length.

7. I need a reminder of the specific file to edit the welcoming page "this is for demo..." - The 'documentation' on going to webmaster mode isn't clear enough to me.
Welcome page is skin1/customer/main/welcome.tpl

okay, I wasn't specific/clear enough AND I'm apparently retarded.

I want to change the text in the welcome message itself... this whole 'change text in the xxx.lng stuff is driving me nuts because I can not find any such files anywhere in the xcart file directory...

So help an apparent yellow helmet out (again) please? :s

Mynex · #6 05-01-2010, 06:54 PM

okay, finally found #7... wow they've moved a lot of things around from 4.1/4.2 in 4.3... :/

So I'm still stuck on #3 - extending the character string length for the cat/subcat on the flyout option.

cflsystems · #7 05-01-2010, 07:06 PM

Use truncate - http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.modifier.truncate.php

toddpatterson · #8 05-01-2010, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Mynex

Okay, I've reduced my list to just 2 items, thanks for all the help so far!

These last 2 I'm so missing something here...

7. I need a reminder of the specific file to edit the welcoming page "this is for demo..." - The 'documentation' on going to webmaster mode isn't clear enough to me.
Welcome page is skin1/customer/main/welcome.tpl

okay, I wasn't specific/clear enough AND I'm apparently retarded.

I want to change the text in the welcome message itself... this whole 'change text in the xxx.lng stuff is driving me nuts because I can not find any such files anywhere in the xcart file directory...

The easiest way to do this is go to LANGUAGES, select to edit English and then scroll down just a bit to the filter. Type in WELCOME and hit enter. Scroll down a tad until you see the Default Welcome. You can change it from right there and even use the little WYSIWYG editor

toddpatterson · #9 05-01-2010, 08:08 PM

Uh, for your Flyout Menus, couldn't you use the "Enable word wrapping for long category names" to solve it or are you specifically wanting everything to appear on one line?

Mynex · #10 05-01-2010, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by toddpatterson

Uh, for your Flyout Menus, couldn't you use the "Enable word wrapping for long category names" to solve it or are you specifically wanting everything to appear on one line?

Aye, I want it on 1 line. Sadly it's _3_ characters to short. :/

I freely admit I don't know jack about the smarty stuff... So I'd need someone to explicitly explain it to me... As in what file I need to edit, what section of the file, and what I need to edit/add to that section of the file.

Or, if someone can point me to a clean example, I can much with it from there.