Printable Price list :: support thread

[raimond]

nice job Paul,

I have two questions.
In the languagefile you'll find "%s Printable Price List"
Where can I find the %s, in my shop it translate to Zen Cart. Of course i can give it my shopname for instance "Myshop Printable Price List". But i want to know where is the %s for.

second. Is it possible to print this function in pdf-format?

[fsicody]

how do you show the full description for the products. I don't want the more info link to be there, I want the entire product description.

[Nuwanda]

PaulM,
I know you said you didn't really have time to support this mod for all the requests you've had, but there is one which seems quite critical. The majority of products in my catalog are "priced by attribute" because they come in various sizes or forms.
Can you give me any direction as where to begin looking if I want to try to adapt this mod to show attributes and their prices and weights within a product listing?

BTW, I think you've done a great job on the current version

I need to revisit this question because it seems crucial.

ALL of my products are priced by attribute because every product is available in different sizes and therefore has different prices per size.

So am I correct in saying that this mod is only of use to people who DO NOT have any products priced by attribute (sizes, weights, colors, etc)?

I would have thought that a high percentage of stores priced products by attributes, yet I've hardly seen it mentioned on this thread. In fact a search of the thread only shows the quote above.

I try never to be critical of anyone who's put a lot of time into a mod, but it seems that this particular mod is either fully or partially useless to a fair percentage of regular Zen cart users.

If I'm missing something obvious, or if there's a fix for this, please let me know.

[fsicody]

I've figured out my issue with the description and gotten that all taken care of but I was wondering if there was a way to have an index page populate with the price list. It seems that many people are using this mod to create hard copy product catalogs which is what I am doing as well. The only problem is that with the way I structured everything, the catalog is over 200 pages and I don't have the time to look through the entire thing and write out an index page. I don't know if this has been thought of or if someone has done this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

great mod btw

[Sawhorse]

Some thoughts on how to adjust the Printable Price list for US paper size 8 ½ x 11.

As Paulm stated in the 294 post

For US letter size you should actually decrease this value (from the default 25.5cm). I think approximately 9inch (or 23.5cm) should be the value (? 11inch minus 2x1 inch margin).

So in Price-List Profile-1 I made a change in the printable page height to 9inch

I do like larger images so I increased the Image size 50% from 80x100 to 120x150 by changing the Image height from 80 to 120 and the image weight from 100 to 150

Because I changed the image size I need to change profile-a4-portrait.css to accommodate the image change. Go to about line 39 and you will see:

WAS

/* cm or inch height for printing */
  height: 2.2cm;

Change to:

/* cm or inch height for printing */
  height: 3.3cm;

I am using a two column setting for printing. I like a narrower margin on my printouts so I went to about line 93 and made them smaller

Was

/* two column settings */
  .colsPL-2 table {
  width: 7.5cm;

Change to

/* two column settings */ 
  .colsPL-2 table {
  width: 8.5cm;

I like my printed font a bit larger than the current setting so I went to about line 166 and did the following

Was

font-size: 7pt !important;

Change to

font-size: 8pt !important;

If you are changing one font size from 7 to 8 I felt you should change the other so just below this you will see at about line 171 the following

WAS

font-size: 7pt;

Change to

font-size: 8pt;

Now going back to admin to change the amount of printed space available on the page.


I also want to be sure that most of my 300 letter text description was printed so I adjusted the Max rows and Extra lines. It takes about (give or take) a max of about 14 lines to include the entire 120x150 image and my description. So if you have about 5 images in a column on a page it would take about 70 rows (5 images x 14 rows =70 total rows) to print the images and descriptions per page. So I changed the current setting of 5 Extra lines to 14 and the current setting of 48 Max Rows to 70.

Sometimes the dotted border line below the description caused the last line of the description to not be easily read I removed that dotted line. Go to approx line 23 and change the following:

Was

.imgDescrPL div{
  border: 1px dotted black;

Change to

.imgDescrPL div{
  border: 1px none;

I was having problems with the footer overwriting either the top of the page or the bottom of the page depending on my settings. To correct this issue go to about line 150.

Was

position: absolute;

Change to

position: center;

Also if you indicate true for header in admin you may find that it may overlap your inventory descriptions and images. This is especially true if you have a large header image. I used a 324x101 image and that is what happened. You can correct this in both the online and printed version of the price list by editing pricelist’s stylesheet.css. Go to about line 114

Was

.headPL {
  position: relative;
  height: 100px;
  }

Change to

.headPL {
  position: relative;
  height: 130px;
  }

When you add a header to each page you have effectively reduced the amount of product information you can display. So, if you add a header you must reduce the amount of space you indicate that is available for product. You should go back to admin to change the amount of printed space available on the page. I changed my now 70 max rows to 60 max rows to compensate for the space the header image occupied on the page.

My current Printable Price List can be seen at http://sawhorsejewelry.com/index.php...page=pricelist

I hope this has been helpful and correct!!

Sawhorse

[nanos203]

First, let me say that this a great mod!

I do have a slight problem, however, that I am hoping someone can help me with.

Filtering the price list by category does not seem to work.

Here is my price list: http://www.threesirens.com/store/ind...list&profile=1

When I try and filter by category, the URL that is linked is: http://www.threesirens.com/store/ind...LIST&profile=1. This URL results in a "Page not found" error.

I'm sure it's something simple that I'm overlooking. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Sawhorse]

nanos203,

I do not think I can help, other than to say that filtering the price list by category does work (see http://sawhorsejewelry.com/index.php...page=pricelist). Thus, it may be something that was added, removed or changed in your install of the mod.

See, not much help other than the fact that at least you know that in one instance list by category works.

Sawhorse

[helpme]

I've figured out my issue with the description and gotten that all taken care of but I was wondering if there was a way to have an index page populate with the price list. It seems that many people are using this mod to create hard copy product catalogs which is what I am doing as well. The only problem is that with the way I structured everything, the catalog is over 200 pages and I don't have the time to look through the entire thing and write out an index page. I don't know if this has been thought of or if someone has done this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

great mod btw

Anyone mind sharing how to do this??? I have changed everything in the admin and looked through the css and nothing affects the length of the description.

[paulm]

When I try and filter by category, the URL that is linked is: http://www.threesirens.com/store/ind...LIST&profile=1

FILENAME_PRICELIST indicates that FILENAME_PRICELIST is not defined. It should be defined in one of the pricelist files (I don't know which file exactly from the top of my head, but a search for FILENAME_PRICELIST in all files of the add on should show which file it is). The solution probably is to reupload the file or add the definition to it.

@SawHorse:
Great work on the Printable Price list for US paper size 8 ½ x 11 Sawhorse

I only think "position: center;" is not valid. It's possible I am wrong though.

[janellez]

I just installed this and it works great - but it's totally useless to us without the ability to see product attribute pricing.

Has anyone figured out how to do this? Is there any plan to?

Thanks!