Tableau Responsive Theme - Support Thread

any idea why on my server a clean installation looks like this in IE? absolutely fine in firefox. I checked my work and thought i had messed up with the code, but then installed a brand new cart, and the template after, and it's just like this. in the same test browser, template from the template page renders perfectly, please help... hopefully i havent wasted 2 weeks of my time... thank you

it happens from ie10 downwards, ie11 renders fine

I've been looking at and testing this new, nice-looking template for awhile at prommart . com

Here are my findings thus far:

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• First, turn off your right column in admin layout settings.

• In layout boxes controller, turn off your regular categories box and turn on the new my categories box. Sideboxes will appear on categories pages.

• I also turned off my new products sidebox on left, as there was too much space even when set to show only one new product in sidebox.

• At certain widths my product main image is distorted. Hopefully messing with height/width in admin/images will correct.

• Shopping cart paypal express button is partially covered with other links at narrow width.

• As others have mentioned, template breaks in IE10 and below. Don't know why, as the demo works.

• BIG ISSUE: The subsequent page links if more than one page on categories, new products, all products, etc. disappear when in reduced mode. It also does this on demo. No way to get to page 2, etc. of all products.

• Although many will not use it, the slider success.png needs the second "s" to show.

• Have to dig into /includes/templates/tableau/templates/tpl_index_default.php to take out the "target_blank" for the About Us link (to stop from opening in new window); also to edit/try to remove the twitter/blog items.

• Template gives new look for several admin pages. Be prepared for that.

• CSS/JS loader (minification) breaks the template when css min is enabled. It stops the homepage slider when JS min is enabled.

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The demo appears to work a bit better than our download (and the download from the designer's site itself). I know it's free, but still, should work as good as the demo. I guess I'm speaking mainly of the breakage in IE10 and below (I normally now use Chrome but many others do not.)

Still, a very nice template and is possibly the next generation. Tooling through Numinix's site looking at their offerings, some are on another VERY nice looking template called Barebones...not our much older barebones in ZC's plugin section.

Thank you everyone for the feedback. We are planning to address the issues reported in the next release which should be ready by next week.

The "barebones" template is the framework that our templates are based on. We have more templates in the works which will be released in the near future.

Thanks, looking forward to updates. Also, you've done great work with the old barebones template.

• Homepage Carosel: how edit to limit number of Bestsellers?

This is a new zc install with only one bestseller. Yet it is pulling about 20 products and adds to page load time. (I managed to reduce number of New Products.) Perhaps the JS min will speed things up when it gets working, but still would like to edit Bestsellers.

Thanks.

Another bug:

• Write a Review: cannot post review because the stars to rate the product are missing. (I switched briefly to another template and the stars/review worked.)

SPH:

Thanks, looking forward to updates. Also, you've done great work with the old barebones template.

• Homepage Carosel: how edit to limit number of Bestsellers?

This is a new zc install with only one bestseller. Yet it is pulling about 20 products and adds to page load time. (I managed to reduce number of New Products.) Perhaps the JS min will speed things up when it gets working, but still would like to edit Bestsellers.

Thanks.

We are building an admin configuration page specifically for templates. When that's done, things like this will become admin configurable. For now you'll have to edit the PHP file: includes/templates/tableau/templates/tpl_index_default.php. The function getProductsSlide() has an optional third parameter where you can enter the limit. By default the limit is 20.

v1.0.2 has been released in the Plugins directory (pending approval) and on Numinix.com.

numinix:

We are building an admin configuration page specifically for templates. When that's done, things like this will become admin configurable. For now you'll have to edit the PHP file: includes/templates/tableau/templates/tpl_index_default.php. The function getProductsSlide() has an optional third parameter where you can enter the limit. By default the limit is 20.

Thanks. I edited the code to allow for 5 Best Sellers on homepage and it sped up the page loading considerably, on my machine anyway. For others, I used

getProductsSlide("top", $_SESSION["languages_id"][b], "5"[/b]);

Got new v 1.0.2 from Numinix's site. Some things fixed include the split-page navigation for additional categories, etc. pages and my main product image is no longer distorted at reduced widths (although additional images now are, but don't consider a major deal. And they do enlarge properly.)

Continuing bugs:

• Template still broken on IE10 and below, at least on my maching.

• CSS/JS minification still does not work.

• Product Reviews: cannot add a review as the stars are missing to rate the product...an apparent requirement with ZC. (Besides, we'd want the stars.)

There may be more yet to be discovered, but above are the biggest bugs my my viewpoint.

SPH:

Continuing bugs:

• Template still broken on IE10 and below, at least on my maching.

This bug was caused by some structured data showing up above the doctype. If this is still happening to you, you may have not uploaded all of the new files or removed the ones that are no longer used. Please refer to the change log posted on the download page at Numinix.com.

We'll look into the other issues to see if they are still relevant.

numinix:

This bug was caused by some structured data showing up above the doctype. If this is still happening to you, you may have not uploaded all of the new files or removed the ones that are no longer used. Please refer to the change log posted on the download page at Numinix.com.

We'll look into the other issues to see if they are still relevant.
The issue with reviews has been fixed and is available on GITHUB: https://github.com/numinix/tableau

We aren't able to verify an issue with CSS JS Loader. If minify is not working, it's because of some problematic CSS or JS code that are conflicting when minified. On our demo it's working fine and in fresh installs we just performed. Are you using any other mods that have modified the CSS or added new global stylesheets to the site?

No, my site is a fresh 1.5.1 install with just the classic and Wendy templates...nothing globally.

But I may just delete site and start again with a fresh install and just the Tableau template. I think the Tableau template is worth the attempt.

Would you change the full name of reviews to first name only?

tested in ie tester, site works fine up to ie8, just a bit distorded on the about us/ blog / twitter bit on the bottom, twitter is on a second line, and to tell the thruth, that's enough for rock'n roll. from ie7 slider start to play up. but hey, update people

description now shows on mobile view even without second picture (that's good that i havent done second shot to products) all in all very nice design a great support. will look when ready to buy addons

Couple days ago I spent alot of time working with this template, even deleting my ZC several times and starting fresh. Here are some of my findings:

• CSS/JS loader still did not work, even when I had nothing but a fresh ZC 1.5.1 and DB and this template. No products or anything. Here is a pic taken in Crome browser with the CSS/JS loader turned on:

http://www.prommart.com/images/Tableau-broken-css-js-loader.png

I tried renaming the "min" and "plugins" folders for the loader, and uploading a CSS/JS loader I already had on my computer. Uploading the second min folder almost worked...almost.

Considering the number of CSS/JS files and the designer including this plugin specifically for that, it is a concern that I could not get the plugin working. Although when testing even with products the site appeared fairly fast even without the CSS/JS loader plugin turned on.

• INSTALL EP4 FIRST: As someone mentioned earlier, there was a problem with Easy Populate 4. I did not have a problem when I first tested this template with EP4 already installed. However, after deleting my ZC and doing a fresh install with this template installed first, then EP4, EP4 did not install.

• PROBABLY INSTALL IH4 FIRST: Again, when initially testing this template I had Image Handler 4 already installed and did not notice an issue. However, after a fresh ZC/db install and with this template installed first, I noticed that the IH text was missing under admin/images. Here is a pic:

http://www.prommart.com/images/tableau-ih-problems.png

At this point I deleted my ZC/db yet again and was going to try installing IH4 first then Tableau, as with EP4. But I paused, reinstalling my former template instead of Tableau...then saw the brand new Winchester Responsive template. So haven't returned to Tableau. Although Tableau comes pre-loaded with IH4, I still suspect that the problem in the above pic wouldn't exist if IH4 were independently installed first.

• IE issues: I could see that it was attempting to be corrected. But site still looked like with went through the transporter and was rearranged improperly. For example, on category page instead of columns for the products across the page it resulted in a single column on the far left side, just below the last left column item...in desktop mode. Other issues as well with IE.

• The category "sorter" did not sort when I had products.

In sum, I agree with rbarbour above that this Tableau template has a good look and feel. I still consider it, along with the new Picaflor Azul Winchester Responsive template, to be a new generation of templates that ... in my humble opinion ... may well make all other templates in our ZC plugin section obsolete. These are also the first templates that, again IMHO, can compete with the new great-looking Prestashop default template.

I think that Tableau is an ambitious project with apparently more things to come for it. I hope that the bugs I experienced all get worked out, for I think that this template is worth it.

Loving the template!

In fact, my store is about to go live. A couple of very minor things I want to tweak yet.
For one, I would like to have the featured products be the default active tab instead of the bestsellers tab.
I know what to modify as far as the template files go, but when it comes to javascript I'm lost. Anybody have any suggestions?

This template has such a good look and I love it on mobile too. Thanks, Numinix!

jenchord:

Loving the template!

In fact, my store is about to go live. A couple of very minor things I want to tweak yet.
For one, I would like to have the featured products be the default active tab instead of the bestsellers tab.
I know what to modify as far as the template files go, but when it comes to javascript I'm lost. Anybody have any suggestions?

This template has such a good look and I love it on mobile too. Thanks, Numinix!

Jencord, out of curiosity, have you had any problems such as with the CSS/JS loader, IE10 and below or other issues previously mentioned?

As for rearranging the order of the homepage tabs, that also crossed my mind when testing this template. If you cannot set the sort order in admin as with a regular template (I'm guessing not), then perhaps moving them around in the includes/templates/tableau/templates/tpl_index_default.php might work.

Just a guess until someone comes along who knows for certain.

anyone knows how to change the // in the breadcrumb menu to other symbols? thanks in advance

boomup:

anyone knows how to change the // in the breadcrumb menu to other symbols? thanks in advance
If this template "honors" your admin-set configuration, go to Configuration->Layout Settings and change the value for Bread Crumbs Navigation Separator.

As for rearranging the order of the homepage tabs, that also crossed my mind when testing this template. If you cannot set the sort order in admin as with a regular template (I'm guessing not), then perhaps moving them around in the includes/templates/tableau/templates/tpl_index_default.php might work.

If there is a sort control in admin for the homepage carousel tabs, I've yet to find it. Moving them around in templates/tableau/templates, tpl_index_default.php and switching css classes wasn't enough-- they were rearranged on the homepage but then the carousel of products didn't show until the tab was clicked on. That's where the javascript comes in, I'm guessing.

In my install, template shows up correctly in Internet Explorer 9 and up. In lower versions, it starts breaking. Not a big issue for me.

Regarding Image Handler 4: coming pre installed with this template, it doesn't seem to have all the functions normally present. In my install
at least, there is no hover control. Also, at first, the images appeared fuzzy, but after removing the height and width restrictions on the css image stylings, the image clarity improved.

The pagespeed of the site seems relatively fast as is, so I've not yet enabled the CSS/JS loader. Since I've made several CSS modifications of my own, I imagine there might be problems when I do enable it in the future.

Some other findings: the next/previous links don't show up correctly on the product info page, neither does the filter results on the product listing page. Some CSS stylings have been set to display:none to elements that might otherwise show on a normal zencart install.

Also, to use the second product description box (specifications tab on the product info page), you must add it to the code yourself as tableau only seems to have it on the template level.

On a side note, I've tried installing Fast and Easy Ajax Checkout Module after installing Tableau. Almost had it working, but something was a little off with the javascript. Sometime in the future, I'll be working on adding either this module or COWOA (here and there in the code for tableau, there
are references to COWOA already).

According to my findings, this template doesn't support every normal zencart function (at least on my install), but I'm guessing with a little work and digging you can fix these or work around them. The core template structure is there, and it's a good one.