Product Type Book (by moku)

Please ignore first part of my previous post.
I just worked out that I wasn't updating the 'Restrict to Product Type' option correctly (clicking on 'Save' instead of 'Add' ). :oops:
With that fixed, category listings are now appearing in grid format.

When I click ion the link to 'List all products' this remains in the original format, however, despite all my categories being books.

So, I'm still curious to locate the layout setting in the admin interface.

I just upgraded to 1.3.8 and am now having issues with the book product type. For one, it does not add the authros to the search. I can no loner search by author. Secondly, i Can not add new product types of book. when I do that, it gives me the you do not have acces to this page error even when logged in as the admin.

The first problem listed above has been solved.

Anyone else when they upgraded unableto search their books by the author name?

So, slowly reading through the posts i realized there has been significant updates to the book type since the original one made by moku. is there an easy way to upgrade to the newest version if i am still using the old moku version?

i started from scratch to build my site to get this contrib to work.

if we use the search to search by author name, should it work with this contribution?

for that matter will any of the added attributes be searched by the main search?

has anyone else got this problem - using custom product type - the items are not deducting from products_quantity ???

a follow up answer. what happened was i have physical and non physical goods. a tech note is applied to each item in the cart, and there are various custom product types. because a download was assigned as an attribute, the item was considered somehow to be downloadable, and the code is set to not deduct from inventory.

// do not decrement quantities if products_attributes_filename exists


$zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_ORDER_PROCESSING_STOCK_DECREMENT_BEGIN');


and specifically here - i had to change the else part of the statement. if you notice in the code, the else statement is identical so that stock gets pulled.

if ((DOWNLOAD_ENABLED != 'true') || $stock_values->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] == 2 || (!$stock_values->fields['products_attributes_filename']) ) {
$stock_left = $stock_values->fields['products_quantity'] - $this->products[$i]['qty'];
$this->products[$i]['stock_reduce'] = $this->products[$i]['qty'];
} else {
$stock_left = $stock_values->fields['products_quantity'] - $this->products[$i]['qty'];
}

i think the key here is that in my case, the item being both physical and non physical is what caused this issue. this is a strong workaround, pretty invasive. but it worked. is there a better way?

Anyone else having trouble with the search? I can not seem to search by author name. It does not seem to be able to find books by the author name.

I have the following problem:
When a normal item is deactivated in admins area and a customer visit it, coming from a search engine, he gets the message that the item isn't found and I hope (I don't know it) the search engine gets a 404 Header.
When I do the same with a book-product-type the product isn't away, when it is deactivated. Only the picture and the title and the description is hided, the special book content is shown anyway. So the search engine never gets a 404 Header.
With the older book-contribution I try to delete the link in google, but they don't accept it, because they get no 404 header and google is only a machine and not a human so you can't explain it to them.
Also when a item is deleted it in't really completly away. The message is "no picture available" and sold out. And also no 404 Header. It seems that the book-contribution not noticed the deactivation or the deletion.