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[elmirage001]

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

[jmccunep]

Originally Posted by elmirage001

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.

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?

[elmirage001]

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

[jazzmang]

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.

[john99]

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?

[klinetim]

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

[elmirage001]

Originally Posted by jazzmang

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.

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.

[jazzmang]

Originally Posted by elmirage001

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.

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.

[PhilJ]

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

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!

skin/ability/custom/addons/addons_common.tpl

Around line 77 try adjusting this value...

tickerRate: 80,

[jazzmang]

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>