How-To: Add new Properties to your Products

[Ajeh]

Do a search in the Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ... in the bottom input box for:
products_materials

select Admin then click SEARCH ...

Open a new tab in your browser, and do a search for:
products_technical

is anyone missing?

[MikeInValdosta]

Forgive my laziness, too many replies to read, but this appears to be a great fix to my dilemma. I am currently using "read only" attributes, which is a very painful process for creating new products.

If I move to this fix, what happens when an upgrade occurs? I could probably live with reapplying the fix if that is the only issue.

[gjh42]

You would need to save any modified admin files, and compare, merge (if necessary), and reinstall them. The db changes should carry over.

[Techiescot]

Hi Linda

Do a search in the Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ... in the bottom input box for:
products_materials

select Admin then click SEARCH ...

Open a new tab in your browser, and do a search for:
products_technical

is anyone missing?

Thanks for the reply. I tried that ... (When I tried just Admin in the filter I got an error (No matching Configuration Keys were found ... product_materials) but when I tried Catalog/Admin the results came through) Does that mean something?

When I ran both of these through the developers tool, all the same files are there and I checked through the syntax and it all looks the same too. It just seems to be that one field (techical) that is misbehaving. Any other ideas that I can try?

Well, I am sure that I will be able to find a way around the problem. I am thinking about making the Technical details and Maintenance a downloadable file - if I can get Delia's Extra Fields module to work with the latest upgrade.

However, I don't like to be beaten and would like to find a solution if at all possible - I never know when I might need to use that field and at the moment Delia's mod won't work for me.


Many thanks again.


OH NO ..... MORE SNOW !!!! I don't believe it!!!!


Gillian

[Ajeh]

This sounds like you are not quite using the Developers Tool Kit correctly ...

Very carefully ... do a search in the Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ... in the bottom input box for:
products_materials

select Admin in the dropdown then click the SEARCH button ...

Open a new tab in your browser, and do a search for:
products_technical

is anyone missing?

[Techiescot]

Hi

I tried it again ... very carefully ... same result. Could the problem be that I have renamed my Admin folder? It seems to work fine seraching the catalog but not searching the admin. When I put Admin in the dropdown, it says searching 0 files at the top.

Searching 0 files ... for: products_materials

Match Lines found: 0
Warning Error: No matching Configuration Keys were found ... products_materials

Whereas when I put Catalog/admin in the drop down, it searches 854 files .... so it seems like it is not finding my admin folders. The foldwes it retreives in this latter serach do not include any admin files. I tried renaming Admin back to Admin but this didn't work either.

Mmmmm .... don't know what to try next ... Any suggestions?

Thanks for your patience with me ....


Gillian

Still snowed in ... kids have now been off school for a week!!!

[Ajeh]

Test a search on the word:
the

and select Admin in the dropdown ... do things show up?

[Ajeh]

It sounds like your /admin directory could be missing files or have files out of date ...

The answer you are getting on your search is as if you picked NONE from the dropdown rather than Admin ...

[Techiescot]

Hi

I tried searching for "THE" but again 0 files were checked. So there is a problem with my files.

I have upgrades to 1.3.9h. How can I check which file or what data might be missing ... a winmerge check of 1.3.9h with what I have or an earlier version compared to what I have?

Any idea which files control the developers tool function? I saw the one called developers_tool_kit.php but are there others?

All the best

Gillian

[Ajeh]

I use Beyond Compare from scootersoftware.com and that lets me compare all the files of a clean Zen Cart with a copy of my files on the server ...

If you own it, you can do FTP compares direct to the server ...