Back In Stock Notifications

Hi,

countrycharm:

Conor I have deleted the file re-installed it to the original, still no luck. It has the same problem. Now I know everything is in it's correct folders and it just throws the error I mention before. You say not possible but it's their just the same.

If you are seeing the name of the define but it's not being converted into the actual text of the message, then the only thing that can be happening is that the define hasn't been loaded.

You really haven't got the correct file in place, otherwise the define would exist and you wouldn't see the message you are seeing (the name of the define rather than its content/definition).

Check again that you don't have a language override in place which is loading a file which doesn't have the language define in it.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

If you are seeing the name of the define but it's not being converted into the actual text of the message, then the only thing that can be happening is that the define hasn't been loaded.

You really haven't got the correct file in place, otherwise the define would exist and you wouldn't see the message you are seeing (the name of the define rather than its content/definition).

Check again that you don't have a language override in place which is loading a file which doesn't have the language define in it.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Conor I about have this all sorted out, but when I click To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here it goes to another page instead the form to fill out. What am I doing wrong. Thank you in advance. I do have another question for you. In includes/template/template_default, does these files go into my custom file or do they go to template default?

quick question.

I got this contrib installed without problem, and i LOVE IT. iv been wanting to install it, but just never had the time. ZC has needed this for quite some time.
IM not sure if someone has already said something about this and i missed it, but.....

anyways, im wondering if there is a way to disable the stock product notification system so that the customer isnt confused and dont use the wrong one when subscribing. I removed the sidebox, but in the my account page it still shows the product notification system thats included with the release of ZC.

Hi,

wickedklown:

I got this contrib installed without problem, and i LOVE IT. iv been wanting to install it, but just never had the time. ZC has needed this for quite some time.

Glad to hear you like it.. it's always good to hear that the work's appreciated! :)

wickedklown:

im wondering if there is a way to disable the stock product notification system so that the customer isnt confused

Yes, set "Customer Product Notification Status" to 0 in Configuration > Customer Details

The customer won't be offered the chance to subscribe to product notifications or see any previous notification subscriptions, but they'll still have full access to their Back In Stock Notification subscriptions - exactly what you want!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

countrycharm:

Conor I about have this all sorted out,

I'm glad to hear that!

countrycharm:

but when I click To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here it goes to another page instead the form to fill out. What am I doing wrong.

That appears to be a problem with the URIs being generated by your SEO software, it's not a problem with the BISN module - you have finally got it working properly! Now just to get the SEO problem sorted! (You should ask on its thread, I can't help with that here).

countrycharm:

I do have another question for you. In includes/template/template_default, does these files go into my custom file or do they go to template default?

As they are brand new files it doesn't matter which directory they go in.. they aren't overriding anything so they can go in template_default but Zen Cart always looks in the override directory first so it'll still find them if you put them in your own template directory.

Hope that helps.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Thanks for that. I will get that taken care of.

One last thing, i noticed that you talk about a code that should be in the email that is sent for the subscription, however i dont see that code being provided to my customers in the email, only the link.

am i missing something?

Installed this tonight and it went perfect, except nothing shows up on the product page when it is out of stock. Everything copied correctly, sql file ran without erros, and the admin portions look good. I'm wondering if my template is hiding it?

Update: It does show up on the product listings pages, but not the individual product page. However, when I click on the link in the product listings page, it just brings me to the individual product page.

Hi,

swingandmiss:

I'm wondering if my template is hiding it?

Yes, it must be. You haven't added the template modifications properly. Please read the docs and try again!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

wickedklown:

One last thing, i noticed that you talk about a code that should be in the email that is sent for the subscription, however i dont see that code being provided to my customers in the email, only the link.

am i missing something?

Yes, a code only gets sent to those who aren't registered members on the site.. that's how they can verify who they are when they want to unsubscribe. Registered users obviously don't need to verify themselves.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

Yes, it must be. You haven't added the template modifications properly. Please read the docs and try again!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

If there's nothing to modify, just copy, this should be quite easy, correct?

I copied the two files into includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/

Both files are there. If the product display is working (almost), wouldn't the other be working as well? CSS conflict?

Hi,

swingandmiss:

If there's nothing to modify, just copy, this should be quite easy, correct?

I copied the two files into includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/

Umm, "YOUR_TEMPLATE" should be the name of your template! ;)

Put the files in the correct directory for your template and everything will be fine.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

Umm, "YOUR_TEMPLATE" should be the name of your template! ;)

Put the files in the correct directory for your template and everything will be fine.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

It is :smile: I just didn't type the real name here because that's info that no one else needs to know. The two files are in the correct place.

Fixed it. Looks like one of the template files was corrupted during the transfer. It was there, but something was wrong with it. I copied it again and now it works fine.

Just did a test and it looks good. Nice piece of software!

Hi,

swingandmiss:

Just did a test and it looks good. Nice piece of software!

Thanks, glad you got it sorted - enjoy! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor it's me again. I understand what you are saying about seo problem, but this is my problem. If I go to my categories and then to home and outdoors/Kitchen And Entertainingand go to page 3 you will see the cookware that is out of stock. Now if you click the To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here the page loads just fine to the back in stock form, but if you search for the item with the model number 28518 at the top and click on the To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here the page will not go to the back in stock form, it just goes to the Kitchen And Entertaining category. This is kind of strange. Do you have any other suggestion for me. Thanks again. I have exclude the back_in_stock_notification_form, but this seems not to work. This is the URL at the top when you click to be notified.
http://www.thegoodshepherdstore.com/...ification_form

I have ask Yellow about this to. He said to exclude it and I did but if you read above you will see the problem. Thank Conor for your help.

Hi,

countrycharm:

the page will not go to the back in stock form, it just goes to the Kitchen And Entertaining category. This is kind of strange.

I understand what is happening.. your SEO module is messing up the link on the advanced search page.. I don't know how the module works but it seems to be converting some query string parameters into uri parts (like inc_subcat/0 ). It isn't actually building a proper link to the product page, which is why the form is not being displayed.

quote=countrycharm;779599]I have ask Yellow about this to. He said to exclude it and I did but if you read above you will see the problem. Thank Conor for your help.[/quote]

There's no problem whatsoever with the BISN module. The problem is with your SEO software.

Maybe you can exclude the advanced search page from it or something.

I'm afraid that I can be no more help.

All the best...

Conor

One last thing....

I was thinking that this system was fully automated, however when i tested it, but putting a product out of stock, and then putting the product back instock, no email was sent to the two people i have subscribed to that product notification.

Do i have to go to the admin and select send actual email every time i update stock?

Information on this would be great.

Thanks again

Hi,

wickedklown:

I was thinking that this system was fully automated

No, I've posted here quite a bit to say that it isn't! :)

wickedklown:

Do i have to go to the admin and select send actual email every time i update stock?

Yes, that way you have control over when notifications are sent out. It also means that if several products come back into stock at once and some people are subscribed to more than one notification list that they just get one e-mail instead of several.. which can help avoid problems with spam filters etc.

If you need to automate it you can write a small cron script or the likes.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Just a note that i've got the "back in stock notification" language files translated in French if someone needs it. Working on the German ones now...

Great mod btw, thanks!