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: Store Pro Site Shaper - after update to 3.2.4, working with Store menu item : phoenix710 October 26, 2017, 12:08:20 PM Your Site Shaper demo install is quite valuable as a learning tool. I've spent several hours now working thru the backend in an effort to understand how it works. (And, as a side note, the Site Shaper demo is also valuable to show how several of your s5 extensions are set up.)
It took a while to find, but I finally saw that the Store item (last/right end of the Main Menu) comes from VirtueMart, and that it is assigned to the Main Menu. Your Site Shaper demo assigned a Menu Item Type to the Store menu item as 'Front Page', which is a VM type that was deprecated in version 3.2.4. (The selector suggests that the 'Category Layout' type should be used instead. I made that change and then specified Top Level Category for 'Select a Category'. That enables the same page to be displayed as the original selections in the demo. However, clicking on one of the 5 links below goes to a page with missing content.) There are 5 links/selections on the landing page for Store: Accessories Electronics Furniture Men Women These are active links that act like menu items to get to the landing page for each selected category, but I haven't learned how this is done. My questions: 1. How/where are these implemented? 2. Where is their content? 3. Do they use 'VM Products' or 'VM Search Products' modules? I've also noticed that in the backend for the Store menu item, that once the 'Category Layout' type was selected, several different tabs appear on the Store Edit Item backend, one of which is S5 Flex Menu Parameters So, somehow the VirtueMart 'Category Layout' menu item type is integrated with your 'S5 Flex Menu Parameters'? Do you have any links that detail what you're doing with this and why? (It makes sense that there are VirtueMart tabs in the menu item backend; I didn't expect to see reference to an S5 extension. Any details you can provide would be appreciated.) If needed: the demo site is (currently) silicon2dozier.cloudaccess.host. Thanks. : Re: Store Pro Site Shaper - after update to 3.2.4, working with Store menu item : phoenix710 October 27, 2017, 01:56:23 PM I believe that I found this.
: Re: Store Pro Site Shaper - after update to 3.2.4, working with Store menu item : jonahh October 30, 2017, 11:23:42 AM I'm sorry your post was overlooked.
1. How/where are these implemented? This is the VM categories module and so it automatically pulls whatever categories you have setup in VirtueMart 2. Where is their content? Under VirtueMart, just create categories and then they will show. 3. Do they use 'VM Products' or 'VM Search Products' modules? It uses the VM categories module and published to the custom_2 position. The CSS styles it to output as you see on the demo. |