Dynamic Filter [Support Thread]

There is another filter which you can see on this site similar industry to yours:

coolcarpartsonline com

It's on his homepage. Perhaps this is what you were asking about? Don't recall what filter that is, but have seen it in the downloads area.

that's exactly what I want

coolcarpartsonline com
is exactly what I want

I understand that coolcarparts has had developers do work on his site. He's a frequent poster so he might tell you what he has.

In the meantime, you might take a look at these to see if one is it...or close enough:

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1067

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=533

I actually test one of these about a year ago that looked similar to the one on coolcarparts.

You'll also have to verify that they are compatible with your version of ZC, or at least will work with it.

Maybe you can find a support thread for them with someone who posted a link to their site, to check it out.

Or maybe test one, maybe on a test site you put up somewhere.

thank you I will give them a try

hi,

my dynamic filter sidebox disappears on all of the product listing pages when a filter returns one result. here is an example:

http://filtersavvy.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=505_694&sort=20a&fltFilterWeight%28lb%29[]=0.49

you may have to copy paste the link into your browser

any reason this could be happening?

I installed the DF version 1.1 on version 1.5. It is functional well. Great mode, thanks. However, in the categories field, every category had been listed twice. I out put the $categories by print_() in tpl_dynamic_filter.php. It has been shown that every category had been double. Hope someone can help me to fix it.

How does the Dynamic Filter work? Where does it pull its filters from? I am doing some testing right now, and I have a category where all of the devices will have certain attributes. I have already added those attributes to at least one device.

When I look in the NARROW YOUR RESULTS sidebox, nothing comes up. I will note that we are using a host who I believe has done some customization to their template, so, there is a chance that the template may be the cause.

I just was not sure if I was not using the proper window to apply attributes to a product, so the Dynamic Filter could work. Ideally, I would like to use the combination of Dynamic Filter and Attributes to help people narrow down a product, but I don't want the attributes to show up on the product info page. People will not be applying attributes to the product before checking out. The attributes (in my case) are used more for giving more information about a product so someone could use the filter to find a product that meets a certain criteria.

Ian

Check out the links in similar threads at the bottom of this thread.

Just installed this mod and I think it's great but I have a number of products that have a display only attribute - "please select".

I don't want this to display in the dynamic filter as its a way to ensure customers are force to make a choice on the product page, for example between silver or gold.

Is there any way to do this?

On my site if I drill down to the product it is showing the attributes. How do I get rid of those on the Product page.
http://www.usaofficesupplies.com/zencart

I know it can be done because I saw another site that uses Dynamic Filter and they done have that.

If you have attributes that don't need to be selected to add the product to the cart, in admin > catalog > option name manager, select the Option Type as 'Read Only'. Making the Option Type 'Read Only' hides the attributes on the product info page.

dlwwalton,

In my experience, if a product attribute is Read Only is still shows on the product page; it just isn't "selected" and made part of the shopping cart. The Dynamic Filter does work off the Read Only attributes, as we're using both the filter and read only attributes on one of our live sites now.

But I don't really know what you mean by drill down and get the attributes off the product page. Can you give a direct link and explain what you want gone?

Unfortunately, I don't see a dedicated Dynamic Filter thread, but most postings are in the Addon Sideboxes forum.

kamelion, very nice looking site!

What I mean is on the left where the categories are make your way down and select the attributes of your choice. You will eventually get to a particular product. The attributes are showing here (as the link below shows.) I want those to be gone..

Everything you see with a radio button. I don't want any of these to show on this page..

Here is the link

The link is http://usaofficesupplies.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5_4&products_id=3017

So you're saying that the dynamic filter sidebox is showing on your product information page? I don't see it when I go to the link.

To hide the read-only attributes on the product info page, add to your stylesheet (anywhere)

#productAttributes {display: none;}

If you have selectable attributes for any products, this will hide them too, and you will need to install Flexible Attributes from Plugins to selectively hide the read-only ones.

[QUOTE=gjh42;1140384]To hide the read-only attributes on the product info page, add to your stylesheet (anywhere)

#productAttributes {display: none;}

You are the best. I could kiss you right now. That is exactly what I needed to do. I don't know how to thank you..Many many thanks...

I guess no attributes showing will work, so long as the customer doesn't need to select anything or see it in their cart. Your product titles may cover much of that. And I guess the Dynamic Filter, if they use it, takes care of attribute selection.

My other thought, going back to when I first saw your site, is that with only seven products the Dynamic Filter seems to me like overkill. Are you going to have more products?

Your site also seems slow, but that's another issue.

About 38,000 products. Just testing on a small scale first and then I will add about 3,000 products to see what happens.

Customer will not need to select any attributes from the product page, you are absolutely correct..

Yes for some strange reason the site is extremely slow especially when clicking on a product or product image. I called my ISP and they told me it was something with zencart. Any suggestions? I have looked at forums on speeding up Zencart and have played with settings but doesn't seem to help. My previous load of zencart appeared to perform much better. If I reload zencart and then copy the files (from a back up back) over to the zencart folder would that just reproduce my problem?

Hello!

Please advice how to fix the following errors:

1.   When choosing from the list of categories or attributes in filter doubles (tallies) of categories
   

& options appear in the form of empty fields, and operations options are listed below;

2.   An error appears when sorting some of the categories  
   

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '), 'Y', 'N') as flag FROM manufacturers WHERE manufacturers_id IN (1,166,75,152)' at line 1
in:
[SELECT manufacturers_id, manufacturers_name, IF(manufacturers_id IN(), 'Y', 'N') as flag FROM manufacturers WHERE manufacturers_id IN (1,166,75,152) ORDER BY manufacturers_name]

There is a link to website http://www.perchinkastyle.ru/products_all.html , sorting is on the left.