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| [](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514) | [Custom Field and Truncation Issue](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514 "On the Registration page, during check-out, I need to add a custom field--i.e. a single selection dropdown. The contents of the dropdown comprises over 1200 items. Unfortunately, a truncation effect...")        Category: [Bug Report](/forum/3-bug-report "Please report any bugs or errors here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514 "Hey nicolas, as always, thanks for the insight and assistance. We are needing customers to identify an entity with their order and the list of entities is quite extensive. As I said, I wasn't sure if it was a bug report or by design, though you've answered that question. I came close to changing the data type for that field but thought I'd wait to confirm it wasn't a bug. Change has been made and everything looks good! I use the old MySQL Query Browser. Knowing the format for the dropdown list, I was able to format my data correctly and simply copy-paste into the field directly (via MySQL Query Browser).") 14 years 2 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:2  Views:3004 | [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514 "Hey nicolas, as always, thanks for the insight and assistance. We are needing customers to identify an entity with their order and the list of entities is quite extensive. As I said, I wasn't sure if it was a bug report or by design, though you've answered that question. I came close to changing the data type for that field but thought I'd wait to confirm it wasn't a bug. Change has been made and everything looks good! I use the old MySQL Query Browser. Knowing the format for the dropdown list, I was able to format my data correctly and simply copy-paste into the field directly (via MySQL Query Browser).") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495) | [Show item as "Sale" with original and sale price](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495 "I would like to show various individual products in my store as being &quot;On Sale&quot; and show both the original and sale price. I followed a thread in this forum where someone was trying to do this, but...")         Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [bmccarter](/forum/user/8338-bmccarter "View bmccarter's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495 "bmccarter, sorry for the lengthy delay but working on getting the e-commerce site in production. I created menu options for all Hikashop categories--i.e. Apparel, Sports, etc. We'll have 'specials' and we wanted a way customers can easily/quickly 'see' the specials. The way this will work is I created a Hikashop Category called &quot;Specials&quot;. When we have a product that is on sale, we'll add the product to the Category. The Menu option is set to display products in the Specials category so as products are added and removed from the category, selecting the menu option will ensure customers will see all current specials.  If time permits (yeah, right), what I'd really like to do is add a Sales section to the Product page (probably near the Prices section). It'll contain a Start Date, End Date, same content from the Prices section, and whatever else once I give it a bit more thought. Like nicolas noted, coupons/discounts can do this and my hope is to take what they have and wrap it around this idea--i.e. not trying to re-invent the wheel here. This idea will simplify things for the person who will eventually take over managing the products--i.e. everything they do would be contained within the Products area.") 14 years 2 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:14  Views:3622 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495 "bmccarter, sorry for the lengthy delay but working on getting the e-commerce site in production. I created menu options for all Hikashop categories--i.e. Apparel, Sports, etc. We'll have 'specials' and we wanted a way customers can easily/quickly 'see' the specials. The way this will work is I created a Hikashop Category called &quot;Specials&quot;. When we have a product that is on sale, we'll add the product to the Category. The Menu option is set to display products in the Specials category so as products are added and removed from the category, selecting the menu option will ensure customers will see all current specials.  If time permits (yeah, right), what I'd really like to do is add a Sales section to the Product page (probably near the Prices section). It'll contain a Start Date, End Date, same content from the Prices section, and whatever else once I give it a bit more thought. Like nicolas noted, coupons/discounts can do this and my hope is to take what they have and wrap it around this idea--i.e. not trying to re-invent the wheel here. This idea will simplify things for the person who will eventually take over managing the products--i.e. everything they do would be contained within the Products area.") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60477) | [Custom Field and Truncation Issue](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60477 "On the Registration page, during check-out, I need to add a custom field--i.e. a single selection dropdown. The contents of the dropdown comprises over 1200 items. Unfortunately, a truncation effect...")        Category: [Bug Report](/forum/3-bug-report "Please report any bugs or errors here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514 "Hey nicolas, as always, thanks for the insight and assistance. We are needing customers to identify an entity with their order and the list of entities is quite extensive. As I said, I wasn't sure if it was a bug report or by design, though you've answered that question. I came close to changing the data type for that field but thought I'd wait to confirm it wasn't a bug. Change has been made and everything looks good! I use the old MySQL Query Browser. Knowing the format for the dropdown list, I was able to format my data correctly and simply copy-paste into the field directly (via MySQL Query Browser).") 14 years 2 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:2  Views:3004 | [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/60477-custom-field-and-truncation-issue#60514 "Hey nicolas, as always, thanks for the insight and assistance. We are needing customers to identify an entity with their order and the list of entities is quite extensive. As I said, I wasn't sure if it was a bug report or by design, though you've answered that question. I came close to changing the data type for that field but thought I'd wait to confirm it wasn't a bug. Change has been made and everything looks good! I use the old MySQL Query Browser. Knowing the format for the dropdown list, I was able to format my data correctly and simply copy-paste into the field directly (via MySQL Query Browser).") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/59393-create-menu-item-to-show-all-the-products-category#59436) | [Create Menu item to show all the products category](/forum/4-how-to/59393-create-menu-item-to-show-all-the-products-category#59436 "I have purchased the Business version and am trying to set up a button that will show all the products under one category.")        Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [SilverD442](/forum/user/8224-silverd442 "View SilverD442's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59393-create-menu-item-to-show-all-the-products-category#59436 "SilverD442, go to the menu where you want to add the menu option, click NEW.  From there, click SELECT under MENU ITEM TYPE, Scroll down to HikaShop section and select CATEGORIES LISTING.  Give the menu a name and click SAVE (not SAVE &amp; CLOSE). Once saved, you'll see USER TOOLS - HIKASHOP OPTIONS.  Click HIKASHOP OPTIONS. There will be an alert that says it can do it for you. Go ahead and click it. Once done, you can click SELECT next to ASSOCIATED CATEGORY and pick the category you want that menu option linked to. You can customize further but, at this point, you can click the SAVE button, then click JOOMLA MENU OPTIONS (to return back to the menu option) and finally click SAVE &amp; CLOSE.  Hope this helps.") 14 years 2 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:1  Views:779 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59393-create-menu-item-to-show-all-the-products-category#59436 "SilverD442, go to the menu where you want to add the menu option, click NEW.  From there, click SELECT under MENU ITEM TYPE, Scroll down to HikaShop section and select CATEGORIES LISTING.  Give the menu a name and click SAVE (not SAVE &amp; CLOSE). Once saved, you'll see USER TOOLS - HIKASHOP OPTIONS.  Click HIKASHOP OPTIONS. There will be an alert that says it can do it for you. Go ahead and click it. Once done, you can click SELECT next to ASSOCIATED CATEGORY and pick the category you want that menu option linked to. You can customize further but, at this point, you can click the SAVE button, then click JOOMLA MENU OPTIONS (to return back to the menu option) and finally click SAVE &amp; CLOSE.  Hope this helps.") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#59435) | [Show item as "Sale" with original and sale price](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#59435 "I would like to show various individual products in my store as being &quot;On Sale&quot; and show both the original and sale price. I followed a thread in this forum where someone was trying to do this, but...")         Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [bmccarter](/forum/user/8338-bmccarter "View bmccarter's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495 "bmccarter, sorry for the lengthy delay but working on getting the e-commerce site in production. I created menu options for all Hikashop categories--i.e. Apparel, Sports, etc. We'll have 'specials' and we wanted a way customers can easily/quickly 'see' the specials. The way this will work is I created a Hikashop Category called &quot;Specials&quot;. When we have a product that is on sale, we'll add the product to the Category. The Menu option is set to display products in the Specials category so as products are added and removed from the category, selecting the menu option will ensure customers will see all current specials.  If time permits (yeah, right), what I'd really like to do is add a Sales section to the Product page (probably near the Prices section). It'll contain a Start Date, End Date, same content from the Prices section, and whatever else once I give it a bit more thought. Like nicolas noted, coupons/discounts can do this and my hope is to take what they have and wrap it around this idea--i.e. not trying to re-invent the wheel here. This idea will simplify things for the person who will eventually take over managing the products--i.e. everything they do would be contained within the Products area.") 14 years 2 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:14  Views:3622 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59210-show-item-as-sale-with-original-and-sale-price#60495 "bmccarter, sorry for the lengthy delay but working on getting the e-commerce site in production. I created menu options for all Hikashop categories--i.e. Apparel, Sports, etc. We'll have 'specials' and we wanted a way customers can easily/quickly 'see' the specials. The way this will work is I created a Hikashop Category called &quot;Specials&quot;. When we have a product that is on sale, we'll add the product to the Category. The Menu option is set to display products in the Specials category so as products are added and removed from the category, selecting the menu option will ensure customers will see all current specials.  If time permits (yeah, right), what I'd really like to do is add a Sales section to the Product page (probably near the Prices section). It'll contain a Start Date, End Date, same content from the Prices section, and whatever else once I give it a bit more thought. Like nicolas noted, coupons/discounts can do this and my hope is to take what they have and wrap it around this idea--i.e. not trying to re-invent the wheel here. This idea will simplify things for the person who will eventually take over managing the products--i.e. everything they do would be contained within the Products area.") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/59312-create-dependent-options-characteristics#59312) | [create dependent options/characteristics](/forum/4-how-to/59312-create-dependent-options-characteristics#59312 "Is there a way to present/enable options based on the selection of an option? For example, I have a product that can be sold unimprinted or imprinted. I would like the imprint options to be...")        Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 2 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59312-create-dependent-options-characteristics#59389 "Indeed, characteristics/variants are the way to go in these cases as you can't have options depending of characteristic values or vice versa. If you have a huge list of combinations, you can always generate the variants of the products via an import of a CSV file. For the format of the CSV, you can first do an export and see how it's done with Excel.") 14 years 2 months ago     by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:1  Views:1327 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/59312-create-dependent-options-characteristics#59389 "Indeed, characteristics/variants are the way to go in these cases as you can't have options depending of characteristic values or vice versa. If you have a huge list of combinations, you can always generate the variants of the products via an import of a CSV file. For the format of the CSV, you can first do an export and see how it's done with Excel.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")      14 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#58129) | [Is there an easier way to fill values fo variants?](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#58129 "According to , it says &quot;If you don't set a value in a field of a variant, the main product value will be used.&quot; I have products with different prices based on a minimum quantity. To allow the...")         Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 3 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;product&lt;$parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") 13 years 11 months ago     by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12  Views:2112 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;productproduct&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")      13 years 11 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#57739) | [Is there an easier way to fill values fo variants?](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#57739 "According to , it says &quot;If you don't set a value in a field of a variant, the main product value will be used.&quot; I have products with different prices based on a minimum quantity. To allow the...")         Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 3 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;product&lt;$parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") 13 years 11 months ago     by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12  Views:2112 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;productproduct&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")      13 years 11 months ago |
| [](/forum/3-bug-report/442-your-language-file-is-not-up-to-date-bug#57513) | [Your language file is not up to date bug?](/forum/3-bug-report/442-your-language-file-is-not-up-to-date-bug#57513 "Hi there,  Hikashop has this cool feature where you can have it update the language file from YOUR server &#91;hikashop's server&#93; and I did ... thinking that I would get the most up to date version except, I think it did the opposite... because now every time I go into Configuration, I get this:  Your language file is not up to date. Load the latest version from our server I know, don't remind me  During the update process, it shows: HIKA&#95;LANG&#95;VERSION=&quot;1.0.7&quot;  I am guessing the server should have HIKA&#95;LANG&#95;VERSION=&quot;1.1.1&quot;?  Bug? Thanks.  Cheers,  Emmanuel.")        Category: [Bug Report](/forum/3-bug-report "Please report any bugs or errors here.")     Topic started 16 years 1 week ago, by [exlemor](/forum/user/119-exlemor "View exlemor's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/442-your-language-file-is-not-up-to-date-bug#57513 "Sorry for the delayed response. I had a copy of 1.5.7, so copy the INI file from there and all was good. I'll try again but, from reading the post, the problem seems to be resolved.  Thanks.") 14 years 3 months ago     by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile") | Replies:11  Views:2312 | [Last Post](/forum/3-bug-report/442-your-language-file-is-not-up-to-date-bug#57513 "Sorry for the delayed response. I had a copy of 1.5.7, so copy the INI file from there and all was good. I'll try again but, from reading the post, the problem seems to be resolved.  Thanks.") by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")      14 years 3 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#57512) | [Is there an easier way to fill values fo variants?](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#57512 "According to , it says &quot;If you don't set a value in a field of a variant, the main product value will be used.&quot; I have products with different prices based on a minimum quantity. To allow the...")         Category: [How to?](/forum/4-how-to "If you didn't find the answer on our documentation neither on existing posts, please ask your question here.")     Topic started 14 years 3 months ago, by [tspires](/forum/user/7391-tspires "View tspires's Profile")       [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;product&lt;$parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") 13 years 11 months ago     by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12  Views:2112 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/56921-is-there-an-easier-way-to-fill-values-fo-variants#75696 "That modification has been added to HikaShop 2.0.0 yes.  You can look at the file and you'll see the line I'm talking about in my previous message: if($parentProduct-&gt;product&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order&gt;1 &amp;&amp; $quantity&#95;for&#95;same&#95;main&#95;productproduct&#95;min&#95;per&#95;order-$quantity){  There has been no other reports on that as far as I know since the release. I also tried on your website and didn't had the message.  I tried on my end and I'm able to register even though the terms and condition view is on the same step of the checkout as the login and registration view. I also tried on your website and it's working fine.  PS: when you move forward on issues, try to put all your posts in the same place and reply to the same thread. Otherwise, other users can't follow what you're saying.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")      13 years 11 months ago |

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