Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Added the css and everything looks ok except.

If you have additional images on the main product the swatch-swapping gets broken. The swapping ends up taking place as a tiny thumbnail instead of swapping out the main product image. If you do not have additional images at the main product level the swatches swapping for main_image works fine.

Is there a way to get the images provided as swatch attributes to display on other screens much like additional product images do instead of having to upload them to both?

Is there a way to reference these images for a feed file to google?

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Let me outline some key points about the functionality of these new features:

The additional images are not intended to be used in combination with the old "Full-sized" and "Thumbnail" product fields. Adding additional images to a product will override the display of the old product image fields.

The attribute swatches have no special interaction with the additional product images. These swatches are stand alone images that merely give the user a graphical element to click to change the select's value. They will not function any differently than a regular "select" inventory attribute when it comes to changing out the product's additional images.

When using inventory attributes to "swap" a product's additional images, it's important to understand where these images are coming from. Additional images that are added to the main product (not one of its inventory variants) will always be displayed as thumbnails, regardless of the attribute's selections by default. If you wish to have an inventory variant's images replace the main product's images, both sets of images must have matching types assigned to them. For example:

I have a product with the code "car". My car product has one attribute named "color", with two options: "red" and "silver". When I make this attribute an inventory attribute and generate the inventory variants, I'm actually creating two new products: car_red, and car_silver. So now if I add additional images to car, they will be displayed as thumbnails on PROD screen. Since (in this case) the red option is selected by default, any additional images added to car_red will be displayed along with the main car images. If I want the car_red images to replace the main car images, all of the images have to be assigned types.

If a main product additional image is assigned type "front_view", it will be replaced by any variant image that has that same type assigned to it. A working example would look like this:

Image Types created:

front_view
rear_view
side_view

Additional Images for the main product "car":

Car_Front.jpg - assigned type "front_view"
Car_Rear.jpg - assigned type "rear_view"
Car_Side.jpg - assigned type "side_view"

Additional Images for product variant "car_red":

Red_Car_Front.jpg - assigned type "front_view"
Red_Car_Rear.jpg - assigned type "rear_view"
Red_Car_Side.jpg - assigned type "side_view"

Additional Images for product variant "car_silver":

Silver_Car_Front.jpg - assigned type "front_view"
Silver_Car_Rear.jpg - assigned type "rear_view"
Silver_Car_Side.jpg - assigned type "side_view"

With this configuration the additional images for main product "car" would never be shown, as they would be replaced by the variant that is currently represented by the attribute selection.

Regards,

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

OK so trying to use them together does not work. So if I want to just use the swatch images how can I call these from an alternative page such as CTGY to display the same way additional products added to the primary product do?

I hope that makes sense and sorry to be a pain but I do promise to help others when they start trying to make these changes.

I'll assume you guys are working on getting some cross browser issues resolved.

It's quite ok that the swatch images show up next to the little thumbails for main product image. However when you change a selected attribute the only thing that then swaps is the tiny little thumbnail.

I would have expected it to still swap out the really big picture or main_image on the page instead of swapping the tiny little thumbnail.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

OK one last way to show you what I was trying to accomplish as Rick's example

http://store.yellowtee.com/mm5/merch...roduct_Code=TS

My expectation was that clicking on the image or changing the drop down image would still swap the main_image changing it from black to pink.

As I understand it adding additional images to the main products makes it so that the swapping by attribute no longer works. It's really confusing because it almost works.

I think maybe Rick was color blind on a couple of these because I think clicking on white swaps a black image but I can not reproduce this in either cssui or mmui.

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

With the example below, there is a clear distinction between the functionality of the multiple image thumbnails and the attribute option swatches.

http://preston.coolcommerce.net/mm5/...ru_impreza_sti

Regards,

[tracymds]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Love PR 8 so far! I just ran into a new feature that I could really use (b/c 2 of my workers went out on medical leave!) Because I am running low on shipping help, I've been forced to no longer ship all of my "pending" orders each day, but rather prioritize orders by shipping status, ie UPS next day, 2nd day, then USPS priority mail, and finally UPS ground & Parcel Post last. However, there is no way to sort for products via shipping type. This is a pretty big feature for me right now, b/c currently i have to sort through every single order and look for a priority shipping status.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

With the example below, there is a clear distinction between the functionality of the multiple image thumbnails and the attribute option swatches.

http://preston.coolcommerce.net/mm5/...ru_impreza_sti

Regards,

Thank you and I do have this both understood and working in the MMUI store now.

Next and hopefully last question.

Is it possible, and how can you have swatches get displayed on CTGY / SRCH pages? I was able to get get thumbnails to display but swatches seem to be another bag of tricks.

Thank you again for all your time and like I said I promise to be helpful when other others start trying to make these things work with an MMUI store.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Is it possible, and how can you have swatches get displayed on CTGY / SRCH pages? I was able to get get thumbnails to display but swatches seem to be another bag of tricks.

Nevermind I figured it out so I will make this my last question.

Is it possible to reference the first image (thumbnail) for use with a product feed?

[lesliekirk]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

PR 8 question:

It looks PR8 will allow me to printed orders separately. Is there any way you can find out if it will allow me to print separate orders w/ credit card info on them?

Can the credit card info be printed with the orders?

Thanks!
Leslie

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

is it possible to reference the first image (thumbnail) for use with a product feed?

You could add any of the "_imagemachine" items to a new page and assign the item and add the head and body mvt:item calls to the template. Switching the component into advanced mode enables you to turn on individual product image types for display.

On the component's settings tab, you'll need to check the boxes next to the image types you want available and add the template variables within the foreach loop.

&mvt:product:imagetypes:YOUR_IMAGE_TYPE_CODE;

This would give you predictable results as long as you have each product's correct image assigned the type you want to display.

Regards,

[tracymds]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

On the printable invoice, has anyone else noticed that the order of the items is not always the same as it appears in the order? This is a problem for me because I list the discount at the bottom and so my customers are believing that the discount is only for the items above where the discount line "item" appears.

[Rick Wilson]

Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta 3 Has Been Released

Bugs Fixed:

• 5660: Affiliate URL includes session id of logged in affiliate
• 5970: MMUI default_fw needs to be updated
• 5971: CSSUI cssui_default_fw needs to be updated
• 5972: MMUI css_fw needs to be updated
• 6039: Manage Orders: Batch reports should prompt for order passphrases
• 6066: Swatch template attributes are broken
• 6074: ImageMachine throws JavaScript errors when element IDs are not found
• 6075: Template Based Order Email Name field displays HTML code
• 6087: MMUI: Applying css_fw then default_fw leaves several buttons with css_fw images
• 6094: attributemachine: MMUI-Specific CSS code should be in the HEAD tag template
• 6099: Multiple Image Dialog buttons are smaller than the rest of the UI
• 6137: Domain , does not allow a value of 0
• 6138: Image_ResizeIntoBoundingBox_gdImage does not support libgd versions less than 2.0
• 6139: CSSUI: ToggleDetails.js relies on AddEvent, which is now in ajax.js
• 6141: Batch Image Assign Upload Single invalid file type cannot exit Pop-up Window
• 6142: Batch Image Assign pressing Enter allows Multiple Uploads of Image(s)
• 6143: Batch Image Assign Unable to Mouse Select auto-complete drop-down
• 6145: MySQL: Setting runtime pagination settings to "Do Not Paginate" results in exactly 1 item being displayed
• 6146: We need a way to suppress the DOCTYPE and HTML tags when running batch reports
• 6147: Errors when running reports are not properly handled and displayed
• 6148: Date range calculation code goes into infinite loop when time_t overflows
• 6149: Report_Add sets invalid date range with module that supports date range and no tag
• 6151: Lookup dialogs don't work on import and report add/edit dialogs
• 6152: Order Tab dialog does not properly resize in FireFox 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6
• 6153: Modal Dialog displays that increase the scrollHeight of the page do not resize modal dimming frame
• 6155: admin/ui.js: encodeentities() double encodes quotation marks
• 6156: Single datapoint GD line charts are drawn as slopes
• 6157: Edit Report: Best Sellers, Display says "Statistics"
• 6158: 0-datapoint SVG line charts generate empty screen and JavaScript error
• 6159: Sales Report: All Dates with no orders gives odd date range
• 6160: Geographic Sales Report: No data results in empty popup window with no explanation
• 6162: MMUI: Store Edit - Navigation Bar Tab and ORDS page - View Order Layout tab, "0" to "00" updates fail
• 6164: Image upload dialogs show empty image preview for IE and Safari
• 6166: AJAX dialogs: onenter behavior is not disabled with privileges
• 6168: Manage Orders - Paste Encryption passphrase via Mouse, Continue button not enabled
• 6169: problems updating paypal pages template to/from "0" to "00" and empty value
• 6171: SVG Line Chart: 2 and 3 datapoint sets show vertical line at left edge of main chart and sparklines
• 6174: JSON_Encode outputs encoded strings that violate the JSON standard
• 6175: Address dialog's title bar is getting font-size:85% doubled in managed order screen
• 6176: AJAX_Call should use JSON.parse() when it is available
• 6177: XSS: Manage Orders and Manage Shipments display Customer fields unencoded
• 6178: XSS: Order Details shows addresses unencoded
• 6179: XSS: Additional XSS in AJAX dialogs
• 6180: Image Machine does not call it's override function oninitialize when updating from a variant change
• 6181: Invoice Basket Contents component does not load product images
• 6182: Returned or RMA issued items are returned to inventory when an order is deleted
• 6183: Order_Add with tag does not decrement product inventory
• 6184: Product Image Custom Fields module is not properly clearing its cache variable
• 6185: It is possible to double click on the New Order button and create two orders at once
• 6188: New lines in Import messages get displayed as br tags
• 6189: Cannot pass AJAX_Call_LowLevel a null content argument
• 6190: Closeup Image missing when clicking thumbnail more than once
• 6191: Closeup Image broken when thumbnails disabled
• 6193: UTF-7 (and other character set) XSS issue in fatal errors
• 6194: XSS: FileUpload_Form
• 6196: CSSUI Product List: Default image size constraints are to large.
• 6197: Affiliate Configuration Screen, Payouts Tab: items per page doesn't default to 1 when value is 0, or negative

Other Changes:

• Miscellaneous small HTML cleanups in the administrative interface

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Just curious about some of the bugs here. Are there manual changes that should be made to existing beta 2 sites?

Of course perhaps you guys could also list somewhere a list of current bugs that you either known or that you are working on.

Pretty much just wondering about things reported as to whether or not you are considering them as bugs.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I'll see if I can get a current bug list on Monday.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Just a reminder for people updating mmui since I originally missed the idea.

You also need to make sure you update the "product attribute template" for your PATR page.