[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Profile for iedwards ## [![iedwards's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") **[ Offline](/forum/user/12400-iedwards)** - **User Type:** User - **Register Date:** 17 Dec 2012 - **Last login:** 3 years 1 month ago - **Time Zone:** UTC +0:00 - **Local Time:** 22:53 - **Posts:** 250 - **Profile views:** 533 - **Thank you received:** 7 - **Gender:** Unknown [ Film location sound](http://www.estm.co.uk) > [ Ian Edwards Film Sound Recording](https://estm.co.uk) > [ Alveley Mining Heritage](https://alveleyminingheritage.org) > [ Mary Edwards-Porter - Author](https://www.mary-edwards-porter.co.uk) - Posts # iedwards recent posts (250 messages ) All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year | [ ](#forumbottom) | Subject | Replies / Views | Last Post | [ ](#forumtop) | |---|---|---|---|---| | [](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300431) | [csv import of variants deletes existing](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300431 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.artistpapers.co.uk/shop/drawing-and-...ned-mixed-media-pads -- HikaShop version -- : 3.5.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.12 My site uses variants extensively and I populated it largely by using csv import which originally worked well. I put all my product images in the hikashop upload folder and reference them in the csv. I wanted to add some new variants to a product and prepared a csv file with the new data and imported it. I usually set most of the import parameters to "no" in that I don't want the import changing anything existing on the site and the import routine reported four new product added which is all good. However after import I could see my four new variants listed on the front end complete with images, but the original 8 variants had disappeared. No problem I thought, I'll repeat the process but with all the variants in the csv. This time I imported all twelve variants and they were all listed but had lost their images, they were showing the default image. I had to repair this by going through and manually selecting the images. The csv file with all the variants is attached, initially it just contained the last four which are the new ones. I hope you can offer an explanation as to why this could happen. Thanks, Ian") Category: [Import & Export (CSV, XLS…)](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls "Questions about import and export will find an answer here") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:5 Views:1696 | [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#300401) | [Badge display for variants and new products](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#300401 "Feature request: It would be very useful if the badge display mechanism could be selected to work on variants and also to have an automatic display of a badge on new products - so on the last four variants are new and it would be nice to be able to badge them as such. Thanks, Ian") Category: [Feature Request](/forum/50-feature-request "Suggest your feature requests and ideas for HikaShop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#305933 "Thank you so much! I am still learning my way around HikaShop. So for my first post regarding this, thank you for the reply! I have a few ideas and suggestions so far, so you may end up hating me soon. I will say out of the number of components I have used, including our own in-house, this is really nice. So far, the footprint is fairly low, and the capabilities seem to be quite nice. I hope we can get a few more things in that focus more on digital markets, as these are becoming more popular. Thank you for the response again. Looking forward to moving ahead with this. :)") 7 years 6 months ago by [Sarrene](/forum/user/58287-sarrene "View Sarrene's Profile") | Replies:6 Views:2178 | [Last Post](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#305933 "Thank you so much! I am still learning my way around HikaShop. So for my first post regarding this, thank you for the reply! I have a few ideas and suggestions so far, so you may end up hating me soon. I will say out of the number of components I have used, including our own in-house, this is really nice. So far, the footprint is fairly low, and the capabilities seem to be quite nice. I hope we can get a few more things in that focus more on digital markets, as these are becoming more popular. Thank you for the response again. Looking forward to moving ahead with this. :)") by [Sarrene](/forum/user/58287-sarrene "View Sarrene's Profile") 7 years 6 months ago | | [](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300359) | [csv import of variants deletes existing](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300359 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.artistpapers.co.uk/shop/drawing-and-...ned-mixed-media-pads -- HikaShop version -- : 3.5.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.12 My site uses variants extensively and I populated it largely by using csv import which originally worked well. I put all my product images in the hikashop upload folder and reference them in the csv. I wanted to add some new variants to a product and prepared a csv file with the new data and imported it. I usually set most of the import parameters to "no" in that I don't want the import changing anything existing on the site and the import routine reported four new product added which is all good. However after import I could see my four new variants listed on the front end complete with images, but the original 8 variants had disappeared. No problem I thought, I'll repeat the process but with all the variants in the csv. This time I imported all twelve variants and they were all listed but had lost their images, they were showing the default image. I had to repair this by going through and manually selecting the images. The csv file with all the variants is attached, initially it just contained the last four which are the new ones. I hope you can offer an explanation as to why this could happen. Thanks, Ian") Category: [Import & Export (CSV, XLS…)](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls "Questions about import and export will find an answer here") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:5 Views:1696 | [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#300345) | [Badge display for variants and new products](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#300345 "Feature request: It would be very useful if the badge display mechanism could be selected to work on variants and also to have an automatic display of a badge on new products - so on the last four variants are new and it would be nice to be able to badge them as such. Thanks, Ian") Category: [Feature Request](/forum/50-feature-request "Suggest your feature requests and ideas for HikaShop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#305933 "Thank you so much! I am still learning my way around HikaShop. So for my first post regarding this, thank you for the reply! I have a few ideas and suggestions so far, so you may end up hating me soon. I will say out of the number of components I have used, including our own in-house, this is really nice. So far, the footprint is fairly low, and the capabilities seem to be quite nice. I hope we can get a few more things in that focus more on digital markets, as these are becoming more popular. Thank you for the response again. Looking forward to moving ahead with this. :)") 7 years 6 months ago by [Sarrene](/forum/user/58287-sarrene "View Sarrene's Profile") | Replies:6 Views:2178 | [Last Post](/forum/50-feature-request/896200-badge-display-for-variants-and-new-products#305933 "Thank you so much! I am still learning my way around HikaShop. So for my first post regarding this, thank you for the reply! I have a few ideas and suggestions so far, so you may end up hating me soon. I will say out of the number of components I have used, including our own in-house, this is really nice. So far, the footprint is fairly low, and the capabilities seem to be quite nice. I hope we can get a few more things in that focus more on digital markets, as these are becoming more popular. Thank you for the response again. Looking forward to moving ahead with this. :)") by [Sarrene](/forum/user/58287-sarrene "View Sarrene's Profile") 7 years 6 months ago | | [](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300338) | [csv import of variants deletes existing](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300338 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.artistpapers.co.uk/shop/drawing-and-...ned-mixed-media-pads -- HikaShop version -- : 3.5.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.12 My site uses variants extensively and I populated it largely by using csv import which originally worked well. I put all my product images in the hikashop upload folder and reference them in the csv. I wanted to add some new variants to a product and prepared a csv file with the new data and imported it. I usually set most of the import parameters to "no" in that I don't want the import changing anything existing on the site and the import routine reported four new product added which is all good. However after import I could see my four new variants listed on the front end complete with images, but the original 8 variants had disappeared. No problem I thought, I'll repeat the process but with all the variants in the csv. This time I imported all twelve variants and they were all listed but had lost their images, they were showing the default image. I had to repair this by going through and manually selecting the images. The csv file with all the variants is attached, initially it just contained the last four which are the new ones. I hope you can offer an explanation as to why this could happen. Thanks, Ian") Category: [Import & Export (CSV, XLS…)](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls "Questions about import and export will find an answer here") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:5 Views:1696 | [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/896199-csv-import-of-variants-deletes-existing#300437 "Hi, Yes, that's strange. The fact that the first 8 variants would be missing the images after point 3 is normal since the images were removed when you did point 2, but the last 4 variants should still have had there images.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297863) | [Category Listings Menu item is empty after Joomla 3.8.9/.10 upgrade](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297863 "-- HikaShop version -- : 3.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.9 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.36 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : any -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : None Working fine before Joomla 3.8.9 security update and for years before that. It will show sub-categories and the category description. But no products are showing. No other changes other than this 3.8.9 upgrade. Edit - I upgraded to Joomla 3.8.10 release, same issue = no products showing in Categories (menu or otherwise). I cannot find any web error logs or debug entries. I also replicated this on on our internal test site by just upgrading to 3.8.9. SEF options don't seem to matter. Product Listings menu item works fine however, so specific to Category Listings.") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 8 years 4 months ago, by [jazzmang](/forum/user/5807-jazzmang "View jazzmang's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297869 "Hi, We try as much as possible.") 8 years 1 month ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [1](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=0 "Page:1") - [2](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=20 "Page:2") - [3](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40 "Page:3") | Replies:50 Views:43.9k | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297869 "Hi, We try as much as possible.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 8 years 1 month ago | | [](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297814) | [Category Listings Menu item is empty after Joomla 3.8.9/.10 upgrade](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297814 "-- HikaShop version -- : 3.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.9 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.36 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : any -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : None Working fine before Joomla 3.8.9 security update and for years before that. It will show sub-categories and the category description. But no products are showing. No other changes other than this 3.8.9 upgrade. Edit - I upgraded to Joomla 3.8.10 release, same issue = no products showing in Categories (menu or otherwise). I cannot find any web error logs or debug entries. I also replicated this on on our internal test site by just upgrading to 3.8.9. SEF options don't seem to matter. Product Listings menu item works fine however, so specific to Category Listings.") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 8 years 4 months ago, by [jazzmang](/forum/user/5807-jazzmang "View jazzmang's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297869 "Hi, We try as much as possible.") 8 years 1 month ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [1](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=0 "Page:1") - [2](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=20 "Page:2") - [3](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40 "Page:3") | Replies:50 Views:43.9k | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/895084-category-listings-menu-item-is-empty-after-joomla-3-8-9-10-upgrade?start=40#297869 "Hi, We try as much as possible.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 8 years 1 month ago | | [](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#291154) | [How do Affiliates get paid?](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#291154 " www.mymaninchampagne.com/shop -- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Business: 2.2.2 -- Joomla version -- : 2.5.16 -- PHP version -- : 5.4 I apologize in advance for this basic question, but how does the payments work for affiliates? I assume the email entered at Components > Hikashop > Affiliates > Partners > edit screen of affiliate > Payment e-mail address is the PayPal account of the affiliate? How is the affiliate commission deducted? Is it a separate payment from the Sellers PayPal a/c to the Affiliates? I have tried to make this work on the PayPal sandbox environment using separate PayPal a/c for the Seller and Affiliate but I get 'Not paid' in my Affiliates Sales page. I also do not see any payments made from the Seller PayPal a/c or payments received in the Affiliates PayPal a/c (all on Sandobx) Is there anywhere else that needs to be checked? Also, Is there a method to manually 'pay' affiliates if things go wrong?") Category: [Affilation](/forum/39-affilation "Discussions related to the Affiliation system") Topic started 12 years 11 months ago, by [Champagneman](/forum/user/28480-champagneman "View Champagneman's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#325767 "Hi, You need to configure a payment method for the normal PayPal payment plugin You can use its "access level" setting to restrict it to only super users so that your customers won't be able to use it on your checkout while you'll still be able to use it for the affiliates.") 5 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:4769 | [Last Post](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#325767 "Hi, You need to configure a payment method for the normal PayPal payment plugin You can use its "access level" setting to restrict it to only super users so that your customers won't be able to use it on your checkout while you'll still be able to use it for the affiliates.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 5 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#291152) | [How do Affiliates get paid?](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#291152 " www.mymaninchampagne.com/shop -- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Business: 2.2.2 -- Joomla version -- : 2.5.16 -- PHP version -- : 5.4 I apologize in advance for this basic question, but how does the payments work for affiliates? I assume the email entered at Components > Hikashop > Affiliates > Partners > edit screen of affiliate > Payment e-mail address is the PayPal account of the affiliate? How is the affiliate commission deducted? Is it a separate payment from the Sellers PayPal a/c to the Affiliates? I have tried to make this work on the PayPal sandbox environment using separate PayPal a/c for the Seller and Affiliate but I get 'Not paid' in my Affiliates Sales page. I also do not see any payments made from the Seller PayPal a/c or payments received in the Affiliates PayPal a/c (all on Sandobx) Is there anywhere else that needs to be checked? Also, Is there a method to manually 'pay' affiliates if things go wrong?") Category: [Affilation](/forum/39-affilation "Discussions related to the Affiliation system") Topic started 12 years 11 months ago, by [Champagneman](/forum/user/28480-champagneman "View Champagneman's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#325767 "Hi, You need to configure a payment method for the normal PayPal payment plugin You can use its "access level" setting to restrict it to only super users so that your customers won't be able to use it on your checkout while you'll still be able to use it for the affiliates.") 5 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:4769 | [Last Post](/forum/39-affilation/864038-how-do-affiliates-get-paid#325767 "Hi, You need to configure a payment method for the normal PayPal payment plugin You can use its "access level" setting to restrict it to only super users so that your customers won't be able to use it on your checkout while you'll still be able to use it for the affiliates.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 5 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/28-shipping-methods/894268-using-fedex-test-url#290391) | [Using Fedex test URL](/forum/28-shipping-methods/894268-using-fedex-test-url#290391 "-- HikaShop version -- : 3.3.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.8.5 -- PHP version -- : 7.1.5 I am hoping to use the Fedex shipping plugin and have setup a test account with Fedex in the US, however there is no way in the plugin settings to point it at the test URL which I have been given as wsbeta.fedex.com:443/web-services How can I do this? Thanks, Ian") Category: [Shipping Methods](/forum/28-shipping-methods "Discussions about the different shipping methods for Hikashop") Topic started 8 years 7 months ago, by [iedwards](/forum/user/12400-iedwards "View iedwards's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/894268-using-fedex-test-url#339357 "Hi, HikaShop's FedEx plugin uses the WSDL file provided by FedEx to connect to the web services. So the URL of the web services is written in hard in the WSDL file provided by FedEx. You can try editing the file plugins/hikashopshipping/fedex/fedex_rate.wsdl via FTP (with notepad) and change the URL gateway.fedex.com/web-services/ near the end of the file to your URL.") 4 years 8 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:1649 | [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/894268-using-fedex-test-url#339357 "Hi, HikaShop's FedEx plugin uses the WSDL file provided by FedEx to connect to the web services. So the URL of the web services is written in hard in the WSDL file provided by FedEx. You can try editing the file plugins/hikashopshipping/fedex/fedex_rate.wsdl via FTP (with notepad) and change the URL gateway.fedex.com/web-services/ near the end of the file to your URL.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 4 years 8 months ago | [](/forum/topics/feed/mode-topics?format=feed&type=rss) Time to create page: 0.084 seconds [Powered by](/forum/credits) [Kunena Forum](https://www.kunena.org)