MultiSite Module Support Thread

[Gerome]

I just finished to work on an admin tool for the multisite module.

You can visualised the categories for each sites and change them around from the admin section...

You can find it here

http://www.medea.co.uk/dev/


Let me know what you think of it.

[stav]

WoW!!! Perfect !!!! You are tha man.
This will save us much more time on the Categories/Sites.
Very well done.

[stav]

After some testing the tool is working pretty well,
one limitation is that is not multilingual supported, maybe in next version :).

[lina0962]

Hello, Gerome:

I figured out the sidebox problem. Thank you for your help!

My two site www.loveinrose.com and www.wholesale.loveinrose.com

The site_name I set in config_sites folder is 'loveinrose' and 'wholesale.loveinrose'.

is the following SQL query right?

UPDATE categories_description
SET categories_description = CONCAT("<!--loveinrose-wholesale.loveinrose-->",categories_description)
WHERE categories_description NOT LIKE "%-loveinrose-wholesale.loveinrose-%" 

I run this query in Admin->Tool->SQL Query Executor, it failed.

What part did I do wrong? Thank you very much!

Lina

[stav]

I run this query in Admin->Tool->SQL Query Executor, it failed.

What part did I do wrong? Thank you very much!

Lina

Lina! , Gerome made today an Admin Tool for you :), go and check it it that will help you with the Categories/Sites.

[lina0962]

Hello, Gerome and Stav;'

Thank you very much for the help! I downloaded the admin tool and it worked beautifully on my adim. Great tool! Thank you!

Just have one more question: I have 16 cateogries, and actually I want both my 2 sites have the same number of categories: each site has 16 categories. (they are shadow sites, their only difference is their outlook)

What should I do make this happen? Thanks a lot!

Lina

[stav]

Just add loveinrose-wholesale.loveinrose in input box in admin tools for all 16 categories.
If you have two languages then you can edit all 16 categories description and in the second language on the top of the text area type <!--loveinrose-wholesale.loveinrose-->. without using the visual editor.

[Magnus Wester]

Hi Gerome,

I wonder if you can quickly put together a list of the most important things that CAN NOT be different across the various sites running off the same installation with the MultiSite Module.

Since all the sites share the same shopping cart, I assume they must be using the same currency. I have also seen posts that state that they must be using the same language. But what about taxes, shipping etc, can this be set per site or are these also per shopping cart (and per installation) settings?

Or would it simply be easier to say that almost everything qualifying as a "business rule" (in contrast to site templates etc) must be the same for all the sites?

[Gerome]

- Same currency.
- Multisite is not compatible with multi languages but will be in the next version (released tomorrow)
- I think that different taxes should be compatible but I never tried to be honest.
- You can use different shipping modules for each site
- You can use different payment module for each site
- You can change anything that is in the configuration section of the admin section (including the company information).

If by "business rule" you mean payment methods, tax/shipping, currency and company information, I would say that

About the new version:
- it will also allow to desactivate the cat_filter for some sites (and then allow all the categories to be display).
It will also allow to specify a different CATEGORIES_ROOT.

[Gerome]

Version 0.4 is released.

It can be downloaded from here:
http://www.medea.co.uk/dev/

Last changes:
- lots of minor bugs fixed
- Admin tools in: Tools -> Multisite Tools allows an easy management of categories
- Multi languages now supported
- cPath calculation integrated with the category filter
- The category filter can now be desactivated with this line:

define('ALLOW_CAT_FILTER','no'); //Desactivate the cat_filter for a site 

- You can now change the root category of your store by writing this line in your config files:

define('CATEGORIES_ROOT','21'); //root categories is 21 for this site