Product Type Book (by moku)

**schoolboy** · 27 Jan 2010, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by johnk

When I started using this module it drove me mad having to select Product-Book from a dropdown list before adding a new title.

I actually changed the database so that product-book was the default, but then I discovered an easier way.

Just edit the highest level category you can. Right at the bottom of the page you will see:

Restrict Product Type to "Product General".

Just click the little arrow next to "Product General" and select "Product Book".

You can then make the change to include or ignore sub-categories.

it works like a charm!

That is the method recommended in the README...

**sashafiero** · 27 Jan 2010, 07:51 PM

Ha, I guess I should have taken a screenshot. When I say "plain" I mean completely unstyled. The whole admin section, not just the books admin (which I realize isn't great, but I'm not concerned about that).
Well okay, I'll just put the "new" stylesheet back up, take a screenshot for your amusement.

**johnk** · 27 Jan 2010, 07:52 PM

Well, Schoolboy, I guess it could come down to the people you meet. As an ex printer and publisher, most of the people I know who want to set up online stores are book retailers. I have yet to meet one Music/CD retailer. Ain't that amazing?

**johnk** · 27 Jan 2010, 07:59 PM

That is drastic! I did an install just the other day to write a tutorial I have yet to publish and I got nothing like that. I just took the Product Book download and dumped the catalogue section straight into Zen Cart. As it doesn't overwrite any files, the over-ride system isn't really necessary. If you upgraded Zen Cart, none of the product book files would be harmed.

It's getting late, but I'll dig the tutorial out and publish it in the next day or so.

**schoolboy** · 27 Jan 2010, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by johnk

Well, Schoolboy, I guess it could come down to the people you meet. As an ex printer and publisher, most of the people I know who want to set up online stores are book retailers. I have yet to meet one Music/CD retailer. Ain't that amazing?

Yeah ... as I said, I am a "sample of one" so my evidence is entirely anecdotal.

It's not so much the people I meet, bu the people who meet me...

All I do is bait my marketing hooks and dip them into that vast ocean called "the global marketplace" - and to date 10 times the number of people who've wanted bookshops ask for music shops!

**sashafiero** · 27 Jan 2010, 08:15 PM

About overrides, I was just talking about my own style edits. It looks completely different from standard ZenCart, for which I praise ZC's use of stylesheets!

I haven't touched the admin stylesheet.

I'm looking at the notes about what ZC files get overwritten, and see these two notes:

Code:

admin/stylesheet.css   merely to put colours on the book collect info page

admin/includes/javascript/spiffycal_v2_1.php clears an IE minor script bug allows calendar use

So that stylesheet really shouldn't have affected it. And the spiffycal is the thing that's not working now, and I made sure the files are there (and I'm using Firefox on a mac, not IE), so not sure why the calendar isn't showing up.

**kburner** · 27 Jan 2010, 08:22 PM

Has anyone been able to get MRSP pricing working with this mod? or even another pricing module that shows retail and discount for a product?

Thanks,
Kim

**sashafiero** · 27 Jan 2010, 09:56 PM

Something else to note about my problem is that spiffycal is used in a couple places, and not only does it hide the calendar, it hides the fields into which I could otherwise just type the dates. This is happening on add Product - Book, add Product - General, add sale in SaleMaker... now I'm wondering if this actually has to do with Product Type Book or not.

I did a search, and some people who were having SpiffyCal problems were able to fix it by making the directory and file names have the correct capitalization. I rejoiced, thinking that here is a simple fix, but alas, my directory and file names were already correct.

**Pink** · 29 Jan 2010, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by johnk

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sideboxes_authors_info ...
Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you.

**neboztik** · 30 Jan 2010, 04:27 PM

Hi, I eddited this module to go well with my computer game shop but I cant create new product of game_type and also has problem with showing fields with multiple option. I attach screenshot of my admin creating new product also main files in moduls product_hry and sql file. Please help me, I am quite desperate! As you can see from the picture I cant get product id so I suppose that problem is somewhere with tables connecting.