Better Together Contribution Support Thread

A couple of days ago I posted a fix to the Better Together Promotional Page for category images. If you're not using this contribution in conjunction with Better Together, you really should be. Take a look at the support thread at

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=772285#post772285

for details. I intend to add images to the marketing text as well, but this is the first installment.

Scott

Two quick questions:

I have an item already on sale - and it's taking 50% off the regular price instead of the sale price. Is there a fix for this? Or something I'm missing that is obvious?

Customers can buy 1/2 increments of the promoted products - but the discount is always figuring on units of 1. Recommendations?!?!?

Thanks!

Melanie

Question 2: Better Together only handles units of 1.

Question 1: On a fresh install of 1.3.8 this does not happen. You have introduced a bad change, or perhaps the item has some extra charge, perhaps an attribute? It discounts off the "final price" in the basket which includes the sale discount.

Thanks. It was just me being dumb not an actual problem. The products were priced the same and i put the full price item as the 50% off item - once I switched them around it worked.

Melanie

I received an email yesterday asking about images for the Better Together Marketing text. I have moved this to the top of my todo list and will deliver something by the end of the year.

OK, I have just installed the Better Together Promotional Page, but I couldn't figure out/find anything related on my product pages, I tried every thing like go through the whole process of purchasing a product.. Do I need to install an extra thing to make it work? I was expecting to have a control on that from the admin panel ! shouldn't I ?

The promotional page is completely separate from your product info pages.

To get the marketing text on your product info pages, follow these instructions:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html#marketing

This will show a message if you have a discount on the item you are viewing. The promotional page shows all discounts.

You must install Better Together and add a discount to the setup() function before doing this so that there's something to show.

swguy:

The promotional page is completely separate from your product info pages.

To get the marketing text on your product info pages, follow these instructions:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html#marketing

This will show a message if you have a discount on the item you are viewing. The promotional page shows all discounts.

You must install Better Together and add a discount to the setup() function before doing this so that there's something to show.
Thanks swguy for you quick reaction, I understood now how the first one to use but what do you mean by** You must install Better Together and add a discount to the setup() function before doing this so that there's something to show.** can you please explain more because I thought that can be done from the admin panel ! right ?

Better Together users waiting for images in marketing text: you should be backing up your setup() functions now to prepare to reinstall when Better Together 2.1 is released. You will need to reinstall all files.

swguy:

The promotional page is completely separate from your product info pages.

To get the marketing text on your product info pages, follow these instructions:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_better_together.html#marketing

This will show a message if you have a discount on the item you are viewing. The promotional page shows all discounts.

You must install Better Together and add a discount to the setup() function before doing this so that there's something to show.
First I installed both better together and the promotional one, but I still don't see any thing related to the better together module as it didn't show in the Admin panel-Modules -Order total ! why is that ? although I'm sure that I have uploaded everything to the right locations and also about the function setup() where should I put that ! in which page ? and why it is so complicated can I just do that from the admin panel without bothering about any coding !

All of your questions are answered in the documentation. Start with the readme file and take the time to read the whole thing. Then go to my web page and read the extended help, which provides even more examples. Again, take your time and read the whole thing. There's a lot to Better Together. It's a large and complex system. Some people have to hire out the installation and maintenance of things like this, and some people use other solutions like Cross Sell because they find Better Together too hairy. It's entirely your choice.

So as alternative solution do you advice me to go to Cross Sell as it sounds less complicated ?
and is here the final version for that ?
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=309

Ok this is my test store and I did everything as it it's written in the README file, Please see what I got , a products with no quantity boxs, no "Add to cart" in short no buttons show with the products .. I really need help.. :frusty:

http://www.arab-broker.com/clothes

The problem you're having now is called the Blank Page problem. Here's how to fix it:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84613

You're getting in trouble because you're trying to do too much at once. If you can't fix the issue you have with these instructions, restore from a backup and then install JUST Better Together. Get that to work. Then install the marketing text. Get that to work. Then install the promotional page.

That's what I'm trying to do now Swguy, and that's what I got in my caches log file :

PHP Fatal error: Class 'ot_better_together' not found in /home1/arabbro1/public_html/pc2all/includes/templates/silverfish/templates/tpl_better_together_marketing.php on line 8

So what dose that mean ?

Please put an ad in the Commercial Help Wanted section for someone to install it for you. I really can't debug your installation on the forum.

Better Together 2.1 is now available in the Free Software Downloads area. This version adds images to the Better Together Marketing text. Please reinstall all files! You must also change the inclusion in your tpl_product_info_display.php file from

to

The actual display of images is controlled in this template file, which you can modify to your taste. The use of images on the product info page and/or on the promotional page is optional; again, mix or match and adjust to taste.

thanks for the mod!

I give it a lovely style! lol

Is there a way, to manage the images? I mean... I want it a bit more smaller... but I don't want change the size of all the images of my site... just the better together images...
thanks in advance...

Nothing is built in to do this; you'd have to change the code.