Printable Price list :: support thread

Hi
Just wanted to say what an absolutely fantastic piece of work this is. I love the version with the images.

Is there a way that I can get the single column page to show the column wider across the page so that it fills the width of A4? I tried using more columns but it didnt look as tidy as the single column per page.

If not no problem as this is still a great add on to the store, am sure this will prove invaluable at craft days and the card workshop I run.

Many thanks

H

Hi helshop,

it's possible to make adjustments like that by edditing the stylesheet. I have barely even touched that file for years, so I hope you'll find your way by taking a look at it yourself ;-)

Absolutely no idea how CSS works but gave it a go and think it has worked, once again thank you!! Now I just need to add the rest of my stock, trouble is my friend also loves it and wants me to set hers up for her as well so thats another cubecart customer who is migrating to zen!! Think this price list was the convincing factor for her, despite all its other great features.

Paulm you are a genius!!

H
:D

hello, thanks for the great mod.
Any way to alter the pricelist to show sub-categories as well?

I have many products in one of my category about 12000, about 300 products in each sub-category of that main category. Its very laggy and database load is insane. Would it be possible to split it to sub.categories?

**All Categories default is set to false. :smartass:
**

Hello,

I know this will sound strange, but I would like to add "Add to cart" button for each item in the pricelist.

The reason for that is that we are doing both online ordering, and by phone ordering, and for the phone case, the pricelist is a way to answer customers faster than diging into the sub categories as a usual web surfer.

Thanks for helping

regards

Hubert

@Timacek: the pricelist does show the subcats. But I assume you mean you want it to show the subcats in the dropdown, so you can select by subcategory.

Although I agree subcategory selection would be a nice feature, I think a better solution would be to add a limit to the number of products the pricelist will print in one go. I originally wrote it for a (osCommerce) shop which only had about 300 products, which I needed a printable pricelist for. There was no need to make it work for thousands of products or more, and that why it wasn't designed to handle lots of products.

@hubert: I think add to cart buttons would be a nice feature. Although it started as a printable price list a long time ago, it does not have to stay just a printable price list.

If I would have lots of spare time I would probably add those features asap :smile: But I am afraid there is very little chance I wil have any time for this soon :(

I am running an older version (1.02) but love it all the same.

Does the new version show attribute prices?

Jacque

Hi
I am using the image version of the price list and cannot get it to print properly despite it looking great on screen!

Any ideas which part of the css I need to amend to correct this please.

Thanks

H

I have read through this thread, and found no mention, so...

Does this mod note stock by attribute? I am using the attribute stock v 4.4 mod. (I know, wishful thinking. A girl can dream can't she :laugh: )

Thanks!
Audra

@jacque427 and audradh: sorry, attributes are not implemented and I am sure I won't find time soon to add code for it. (even very unlikely that I will ever find time for it, so if anyone else wants to update/support this mod please do so!)

@helshop: sorry but the image printing is not officially supported. Please look at the HTML source for CSS classes and try to edit the CSS files to change the looks. You also might need to edit the modules/pages/pricelist/header_php.php file.

edit:
@audrah: I am dreaming too, about having lots of spare time to code... ;-)

Hello Paul,

First of all thank you for a great mod. I have also a question: is there any way to show prices and quantity breaks set in quantity price breaks module?

Adam

Hi Manada,

quite some custom coding would be needed to show the quantitiy prices breaks correctly, I think. And I am currently working on quick updates and other things (a.o. trying to make some money ;-) ), no idea if and when I will work on the price list again.

Others a are free to use and update the price list code too of course. It's GPL! :smartass:

Has anyone tried this version (that shows the pictures) with IH2 installed??? I got an error after installation:

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '/kunden/homepages/11/d93880114/htdocs/bmz_cache/6/66c215b0fe591a928a74280301d2cdd6.image.80x96.jpg' for writing in /homepages/11/d93880114/htdocs/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 652

Crzipilot:

Has anyone tried this version (that shows the pictures) with IH2 installed??? I got an error after installation:

I use price-list_v1.3-pre2.zip with IH2 on 1.3.7.

/Wils

Ok, problem with IH has gone away, not sure what it was, besides PFM. Anyways, anyone have any luck getting the items to print out correctly with images??? Or at least on a 8x11 sheet?

Just wanted to note that he included stylesheets are made for A4 (210x297mm). Never tried it, but it should not be very difficult to convert to US-letter format.

Not sure what you mean by "getting the items to print out correctly with images". I don't really use the price list anymore these days, but I tested it a couple of times and it worked fine here. It still got the pricelist look though, which is not very nice for a printed catalogue of course...

Not really sure how to explain it. But when the price list comes up on screen it seems to look ok. I changed some of the settings in the stylesheet, from a prev. thread, to fit a 8x11 letter paper. When I goto print, it doesn't look like anything off the screen. It scrunches up the boxes to the top of the page.

Anyways, I'll play with it some more, might be something with the printer.

We desire the print out, as we had something similar from our old website we would us as in store quick reference....old habits die hard...

Thanks for the work though, module works good, I'm sure it's something on our end...

Crzipilot:

Not really sure how to explain it. But when the price list comes up on screen it seems to look ok. I changed some of the settings in the stylesheet, from a prev. thread, to fit a 8x11 letter paper. When I goto print, it doesn't look like anything off the screen. It scrunches up the boxes to the top of the page.

You might be able to manipulate the mod output with CSS to format into a layout you require for your printer.

In Zen Cart distribution see /docs/readme_css_system.html

Specifically the reference to:
print*.css // printer-friendly global usage site-wide changes for printing-only

The mod comes with three CSS profiles, namely:

profile-a4-landscape.css
profile-a4-portrait.css

• and -
  profile-3.css
  This third one is for your customization.
  (or you edit the other two as you wish).

If you use Firefox web browser, install the Web Develpper add-on to play around with the CSS to format the page as you like for your printer. Then save the CSS.

Woody

Hi all, first off this is a great mod and ive got it just how i want it so thank you.

Just the 1 problem when you go to print it, it will print a page then a blank page and then another page with products on and it does this until it is all printed.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi Troy,

your question is probably related to the question above about the 8x11 letter format. We use another paper format called A4 and that is the reason it's by default configured to fit A4.

There is at least one setting in the stylesheet (in cm) that you should adjust for US letter format (in inch if you like, by default it is 25.5cm which is the A4 length minus standard top and bottom margins). In addition you might have to dedrease the number of lines/rows printed on a page somewhat (pricelist admin setting).

I gues there must be lots of users that found out usable settings for the U.S. letter format, hopefully someone will post it here.