MultiSite Module Support Thread

[KThompson]

Does any one know if it is possible to get all of my sites to use the same image folder? I have hundreds of images and copying them seems like a huge waist of time.

I would like for all images to be located at "images.mystore.com" where all my other stores are mystore.com, cat1.mystore.com, cat2.mystore.com, you get the idea

[Tieske]

What I would like to eventually do is have a master category, where the products are actually defined, and then have site directories, set as the root category for the individual sites, where the master categories products are linked into.

The categories menu does actually show the correct product count, but if you click into the category, they don't display. Is this something that could be easily done, or is there a good reason why it can't?

After wasting several hours on solving this problem, the solution for me is the following:

Be sure all the "original" products / 'master_categorie' are in a sub-categorie. Point these sub-categories to all the domains you want to use them in (multisite-admin-tool) and don't point the root/main-catagories to any domain.

This way the duplicated products of these "original"-products will show in the categories dedicated to the chosen sites.

Hope this helps.

[KThompson]

I have my site set up so that the main site has many " root categories" i.e electronics, clothing. And my other sites have only electronics and clothing. I want the categories sidebox to display only the sub categories.

So for electronics it displays cell phones, digital cameras, etc. instead of just electronics

and for shoes it simply displays nike, reebok, etc. instead of just shoes.

I tried not including the "root category" (shoes, electronics) in the multisite tools but then no categories display

[KThompson]

Nevermind I never installed the latest version. Fixed my problem.

[Tieske]

Having the multiSite module functional and running live...

Again, Big thanks to Gerome!!

Still there is one little issue left for now:

How to change the Invoice-logo and -store-address for each site?

The front end is easy to manage using the override but the back-end doesn't recognize from which site/store the Invoise is. Since there is the ORDERS_STORE it would be changeble........... but is there an easy sollution or am I missing something obvious??

I don't want to confuse my customers by sending an Invoice from a different store.

Thanks in advance.

[NullMind]

Can somebody tell me if Multistore will do this ?

check this site

http://rc-mushroom.com/index.php

see how you can jump from "car" to "helicopter" .. it's the same store .. but when you jump, only the categories from each section show up .. very seamless

so it's not 2 sites with one db, but one db, one site, 2 stores ?

[Gerome]

Having the multiSite module functional and running live...

Again, Big thanks to Gerome!!

Still there is one little issue left for now:

How to change the Invoice-logo and -store-address for each site?

The front end is easy to manage using the override but the back-end doesn't recognize from which site/store the Invoise is. Since there is the ORDERS_STORE it would be changeble........... but is there an easy sollution or am I missing something obvious??

I don't want to confuse my customers by sending an Invoice from a different store.

Thanks in advance.

We didn't use the Zencart invoice system as we made our own.
However, it should be something too hard to do since you can know where the orders are from from the orders table.
I don't know if other people had to deal with it in the past too...
Good luck for that

[Gerome]

Can somebody tell me if Multistore will do this ?

check this site

http://rc-mushroom.com/index.php

see how you can jump from "car" to "helicopter" .. it's the same store .. but when you jump, only the categories from each section show up .. very seamless

so it's not 2 sites with one db, but one db, one site, 2 stores ?

Yes, you can do that with multisite.

[Tieske]

We didn't use the Zencart invoice system as we made our own.
However, it should be something too hard to do since you can know where the orders are from from the orders table.
I don't know if other people had to deal with it in the past too...
Good luck for that

For now I made an invoice.php for each site/domain and an extra Invoice button at the back-end. Simple and OK until I have more then a few sites at one database.

Final stap will be the cross-site-cart which is mentioned earlier this thread.

Again great thanks for the Module (and offcourse good luck with the new job).

[Tieske]

Okay, so far I have this code written into the script, but it's obviously not completely working as I'm assuming that I either have it typed wrong, or the program doesn't understand what I'm asking it to do. Please give me some pointers.

<a href=http://store1.salvationarmy.ca . '$session'>Online Store</a>

I need the ability to place the site_link with zenid not only into the main section of a page, but I'll also need it to be placed in the code for the dropdown menu mod.

With the MultiSite Module I've set it up with different customer types, with two different levels of customers, some with access to more products. What I'm trying to do now is force everyone to login via the more secure login screen, and then be re-directed after that to the appropriate page. In essence I'm creating the illusion of two different levels of customers on one site. Something Zen is not yet able to do, but this is getting, REALLY, REALLY close, and I'd hate to see this pass by. It's quite important to our organization that only people with the right authority can buy certain products.

OK; putting the session id into the url like:

<a href="http://www.site.com/index.php?<?php echo zen_session_name() . '=' . zen_session_id(); ?>">TITLE</a>

is one thing. But how do I keep the session id sticky when I browse through the other site? Since I want to avoid the sidebox.

JVOCE: What did solve your problem?

Thanks in advance.