Quick Updates plugin [support]

Thnks for reply.. great mod. quick question
If I choose a category -> Max. # of lines per page drop down it does not pull info for that specific category... the max # of lines pulls up all of the categories. Is this supposed to work like this?

Not really supposed to work like that, but neither really designed to do it otherwise, I think.

Andrew has improved the contribution a lot, and also added the categories dropdown. And I did my best as well to make this contribution even more usefull then it already was, but it's certainly not perfect yet.

The way the selections are stored is still quite messy. I think that part needs to be rewritten, to use $_SESSION to remember the choosen category for example.

It can be done, it's just a matter of priorities :-)

Another minor update (no need to reïnstall). I added links to the products_id column, to make it easy view the product at the catalog side. Actually I added it because I need an alike modification for my own usage, that also explains why I added this link in a (more or less) strange way ;-)

*pixxie: as far as I know it is possible to disable the inc VAT prices after all ("Display price with all included of tax." setting in admin).

Also, SQL removal for this mod is already included in the installation SQL, so I will not add separate "remove.sql" file.

I will take a break from this mod now (really this time ;-) ), and wait and see what others might have to add to it. I will only do bugfixes if needed and if time permits.....

Thanks, Paul :smile:

*pixxie: as far as I know it is possible to disable the inc VAT prices after all ("Display price with all included of tax." setting in admin).

Ah, yes - I was looking at it the other way around (how to disable the 'price without VAT'), but you're quite right - if you aren't VAT-registered it doesn't matter which of those two you disable to make more space. (D'oh) :smile:

I was wondering how difficult it is to include "Product Qty Minimum" to the configuration for this mod. I have to go through a bunch of products and set a minimum quantity for ordering.

Let me know if this is possible and whether it's worth it to wait for the addition or whether I should just start plugging away at changing them one by one. Thanks.

I've updated an older version to the newer versions, and am curious how the category edit works. When I click on the 'e' under "category", it goes to the product page where you add a product, and there is no option to change the category. How is the change category functionality supposed to work?

Thanks!

I figured out what was going on... I had edit name "off" in the configuration option, but it still shows "Name" in the row header in the Quick updates page but the name doesn't show up below it... so everything was off one name, and the 'e' to edit the product was underneath "Category" so I got confused.

When you turn "Name" off in the options, is the name still supposed to show, but not be editable?

jettrue:

When you turn "Name" off in the options, is the name still supposed to show, but not be editable?Not sure what the original author had in mind of course, but I noticed some edit on/off and some view on/off settings, so I assume the original idea was have some of the data shown even if the edit for it was set to off or false. And I must say I feel more confident when I can only edit what I want to edit, but still have a more or less complete overview (to make sure I am editting the right products).

But the header columns should always match the data columns of course, so it looks like you've found a bug.

paulm:

Not sure what the original author had in mind of course, but I noticed some edit on/off and some view on/off settings, so I assume the original idea was have some of the data shown even if the edit for it was set to off or false. And I must say I feel more confident when I can only edit what I want to edit, but still have a more or less complete overview (to make sure I am editting the right products).

But the header columns should always match the data columns of course, so it looks like you've found a bug.

If you turn off name, can you reproduce the same issue, or is it something with my upgrade?

jettrue:

If you turn off name, can you reproduce the same issue, or is it something with my upgrade?
It's the same here.

You can wrap this into an if statement:

echo zen_quickupdates_table_head('pd.products_name', TABLE_HEADING_PRODUCTS);

Or change this so that it shows the name column but blocks editting (if QUICKUPDATES_MODIFY_NAME is false):

		if(QUICKUPDATES_MODIFY_NAME == 'true'){
			// added div wrapper to allow advanced :hover styling
			echo '<td class="smallText productsName"><div>' . zen_draw_input_field('product_new_name[' . $products->fields['products_id'] . ']', stripslashes($products->fields['products_name']), 'size="12"') . zen_draw_hidden_field('product_old_name[' . $products->fields['products_id'] . ']', stripslashes($products->fields['products_name'])) . '</div></td>' . "\n";
		}

For example.

Hi, I just install this very usefull mod. I want's to add another comlumn, "p.product_price_w" for the wholesale price of the dual pricing contribution. What can I do to do this?

Thanks a lot

mafiasam:

I was wondering how difficult it is to include "Product Qty Minimum" to the configuration for this mod. I have to go through a bunch of products and set a minimum quantity for ordering.

Let me know if this is possible and whether it's worth it to wait for the addition or whether I should just start plugging away at changing them one by one. Thanks.

I guess I can probably do this in phpmyadmin. not well versed in it though.
i'll try it.

The descriptions pop-up appears below the description and the URL for the pop-up. Because of this several things are blocked in the pop-up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

George

George,

I think i know what you mean, and it's mainly just some buggy IE hover behaviour. I must admitt that I did not check it in IE very well :blush:

Maybe I will try to improve the looks for IE some day..... but for now you can use Firefox, or set "Use popup edit" to false in the quick_updates admin. Or accept it how it is of course ;-)

paulm:

George,

I think i know what you mean, and it's mainly just some buggy IE hover behaviour. I must admitt that I did not check it in IE very well :blush:

Maybe I will try to improve the looks for IE some day..... but for now you can use Firefox, or set "Use popup edit" to false in the quick_updates admin. Or accept it how it is of course ;-)

You are correct it works correctly in FireFox. However I would suggest including the product name in the popup since the name field is quite small. I look forward for an ie fix. By the way I runing ie 7 and firefox 2.

I really like this module.

Thanks again for the fast response.

George

quick_updates-v-november-8th-2006

Mainly added some comments and cleaned up a little bit of the table soup (only changed file since quick_updates-v-oktober23th-2006 is the admin/quick_updates.php file).

No need to update (but if/when I will update again it will probably be based on this version, so...).

I hope to have some time soon to clean up the page selection/sort order links logic. Another nice addition I hope to add soon is a list of updated products after an update is done (now it only shows the number of updates), and maybe a link to view a list of those products.

Sorry, I removed the quick_updates-v-november-8th-2006 attachement.

I was experimenting with:

I hope to have some time soon to clean up the page selection/sort order links logic.and it appears to be a lot easier than I expected :-)

So I will upload another version later today, which includes this fix (and maybe more).

No time to add more today.

But this version remembers (using the session array) the: sort order, HTML editor, max number of lines per page, the category and manufacturer selected when you click a link. For example when selecting another page with products.

(note: selecting another page using the dropdown even did not work at all in the previous version I had, so this version also fixes a bug).

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This is just a thought and I'm not sure if it can be done but I think it would make this contribution one of the most versatile and useful mods out there (not that it isn't already but it would be better).

I am wondering if Quick Updates can be configured to add multiple products to categories simultaneously.

Say that you have an empty or even populated category and you wanted to add say three products to that category, you could navigate to the category and you would see a button at the top of the admin to add blank products and by pressing that button you would get a blank entry showing, clicking it three times you would get three blank entries. From there you could cut and paste your information into the product listings from one page an d submit them simultaneously.

I know I could use easy populate for this but I have tried three times to set up easy populate for my store and I have never been successful at using it. I have added all my products by hand. Actually I think if this were available to people who already had stores populated it would make this contribution the number one sought after modification for zen cart.

Well, it's just a thought. a good one i think but let me know if it's at all feasible or not.

mafiasam

mafiasam:

This is just a thought and I'm not sure if it can be done but I think it would make this contribution one of the most versatile and useful mods out there (not that it isn't already but it would be better).

I am wondering if Quick Updates can be configured to add multiple products to categories simultaneously.

Say that you have an empty or even populated category and you wanted to add say three products to that category, you could navigate to the category and you would see a button at the top of the admin to add blank products and by pressing that button you would get a blank entry showing, clicking it three times you would get three blank entries. From there you could cut and paste your information into the product listings from one page an d submit them simultaneously.

I know I could use easy populate for this but I have tried three times to set up easy populate for my store and I have never been successful at using it. I have added all my products by hand. Actually I think if this were available to people who already had stores populated it would make this contribution the number one sought after modification for zen cart.

Well, it's just a thought. a good one i think but let me know if it's at all feasible or not.

mafiasam

I was thinking the same thing last night. My products are all the same price, weight, description, etc. and I sit here all night pressing "copy". To me, this is the best mod and adding a mult. product function like this would make it unbeatable. (the user tracking mod is another favorite)

Thank you to the Quick Updates maker(s)!!!