Sideboxes not displaying

[OwenB]

Thanks for all your hard work on this. I will reinstall v1.5.7 get the data transferred to the development site and check the sideboxes again and revert to you.

As mentioned previously like on our live site we need authors (manufacturers - as it just a heading change) should simply show one line saying Please Select with a drop-down so that we can type the author name to search. In v1.5.7 it simply wasn't doing this and I checked the manufacturers.php and it is the standard script on both installations.

I have added user: zencart / password: zencart to our third-party login system so that you can see the page on the live site.

http://digi-books.org.uk => Library

[OwenB]

In order to show you the extent of the issue - I have installed a fresh version of v1.5.7b at http://booksense.org.uk/booksense_library and installed the demo data.

Manufacturers show as Please select and the first two manufacturer's names - no drop-down.

Clicking on Please Select you can scroll down (but like I said we have thousands).

So if I start typing Microsoft (of which there are products) all it does it take me to manufacturer Matrox and Please select changes to Reset so it appears there is something inherently wrong with the standard installation?

[simon1066]

... Manufacturers show as Please select and the first two manufacturer's names - no drop-down.
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In Admin > Configuration > Maximum Values > Manufacturers List - Scroll Box Size/Style

it says: Number of manufacturers names to be displayed in the scroll box window. Setting this to 1 or 0 will display a dropdown list.

Changing that should give you your dropdown.

Edit: that's on ZC v1.56c, I assume there's something similar in ZC v1.57b

[OwenB]

In Admin > Configuration > Maximum Values > Manufacturers List - Scroll Box Size/Style

it says: Number of manufacturers names to be displayed in the scroll box window. Setting this to 1 or 0 will display a dropdown list.

Changing that should give you your dropdown.

Edit: that's on ZC v1.56c, I assume there's something similar in ZC v1.57b

Fabulous!!!!! - Thank you SO much :)

[mc12345678]

In Admin > Configuration > Maximum Values > Manufacturers List - Scroll Box Size/Style

it says: Number of manufacturers names to be displayed in the scroll box window. Setting this to 1 or 0 will display a dropdown list.

Changing that should give you your dropdown.

Edit: that's on ZC v1.56c, I assume there's something similar in ZC v1.57b

Fabulous!!!!! - Thank you SO much :)

Note that this is/was a setting that existed in ZC 1.5.1 which if that database had been imported and then upgraded through zc_install would have allowed the store to operate in the 1.5.7b version the same way that it had in 1.5.1... Otherwise, the site is truly being installed as a new site instead of one that has been set the way desired to support operation.

While I don't necessarily see the docs to have/show the link(s) I would have expected, but at least one functional link that at least explains a process through which to go to do an update which includes keeping the existing database not just pieces of it like was done above:
Standard Upgrade - Recommended Procedure | Zen Cart Documentation (zen-cart.com)