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# mair's recent posts (46 messages )
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| [](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119051) | [Importing Main Products and Variants](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119051 "Hi, Can we now important the Main Product and the Variants at the same time? And add the Characteristics too? Before, we would have to create the characteristics one at a time, import the main product and then and then the variants. This would constantly fail with errors, Hopefully by now there is a seamless process for doing this? Kind regards") Category: [Import & Export (CSV, XLS…)](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls "Questions about import and export will find an answer here") Topic started 13 years 2 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119095 "You need to pre create the characteristics with the values you need. Once done, you can import the products and variants together in one CSV with the columns corresponding to your characteristics.") 13 years 2 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:700 | [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119095 "You need to pre create the characteristics with the values you need. Once done, you can import the products and variants together in one CSV with the columns corresponding to your characteristics.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 13 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119027) | [Importing Main Products and Variants](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119027 "Hi, Can we now important the Main Product and the Variants at the same time? And add the Characteristics too? Before, we would have to create the characteristics one at a time, import the main product and then and then the variants. This would constantly fail with errors, Hopefully by now there is a seamless process for doing this? Kind regards") Category: [Import & Export (CSV, XLS…)](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls "Questions about import and export will find an answer here") Topic started 13 years 2 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119095 "You need to pre create the characteristics with the values you need. Once done, you can import the products and variants together in one CSV with the columns corresponding to your characteristics.") 13 years 2 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:700 | [Last Post](/forum/37-import-export-csv-xls/861126-importing-main-products-and-variants#119095 "You need to pre create the characteristics with the values you need. Once done, you can import the products and variants together in one CSV with the columns corresponding to your characteristics.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 13 years 2 months ago |
| [](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/80560-guest-checkout#99754) | [Guest Checkout](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/80560-guest-checkout#99754 "Hi, On my site I accept paypal and google checkout. What is the best way to implement a guest checkout? Thanks") Category: [General Talk about HikaShop](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop "Suggest your feature requests and ideas for HikaShop") Topic started 13 years 6 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/80560-guest-checkout#99836 "Hi, Using the "no registration" option in HikaShop. Regards,") 13 years 6 months ago by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") | Replies:1 Views:934 | [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/80560-guest-checkout#99836 "Hi, Using the "no registration" option in HikaShop. Regards,") by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") 13 years 6 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89159) | [Google product data feed and variants](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89159 "Hi if someone could shed some light on this? I have more than 1000 products in my store. with variants included around 21,000 items. When creating the google data feeds some are showing as not in stock, because it seems that I should add all the variants together for the main product. Google has a provision for variants: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer....en&answer=2886435#GB It is impossible for me to add all the variants together and the feed is constantly rejected. This is a massive short coming of hikashop and there must a workaround for the this great shopping cart. It is no use having the best cart and ecommerce store if we cannot bring customers in? Kind regards,") 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 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89348 "The error "Error type Percentage Count" means that there is an issue with the price format. We would need a sample of your XML to say anything on that. Regarding the missing UPI, that depends on the category of your products: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160161 You can actually usually solve the second issue yourself with the configuration of the plugin. Here is a table of the required field based on the type of the product: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1344057 The mpn can be added by turning on the "add code" option of the plugin (that will put the product code in it. The brand can be added by filling the brand option of the plugin with some text. So again, I don't see any link with the variants data here. As I said in my previous message, the variant data is not used by the plugin. It sure could technically be added. But I doubt your server would be able to export a XML file built from 22K records. Loading all that in memory will almost certainly make the page processing crash. That would require to redo the plugin from the ground up to load the data little by little while the XML is constructed and sent to the browser. While it's not impossible, that's a huge task.") 13 years 8 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:839 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89348 "The error "Error type Percentage Count" means that there is an issue with the price format. We would need a sample of your XML to say anything on that. Regarding the missing UPI, that depends on the category of your products: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160161 You can actually usually solve the second issue yourself with the configuration of the plugin. Here is a table of the required field based on the type of the product: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1344057 The mpn can be added by turning on the "add code" option of the plugin (that will put the product code in it. The brand can be added by filling the brand option of the plugin with some text. So again, I don't see any link with the variants data here. As I said in my previous message, the variant data is not used by the plugin. It sure could technically be added. But I doubt your server would be able to export a XML file built from 22K records. Loading all that in memory will almost certainly make the page processing crash. That would require to redo the plugin from the ground up to load the data little by little while the XML is constructed and sent to the browser. While it's not impossible, that's a huge task.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
| [](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89153) | [Click twice on each screen on checkout](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89153 "Hi if some someone could shed some light on this? I know others have had this problem too. But some reason on the checkout workflow I have to press twice for at each stage. Everything else is fine, when it was the default checkout with all things in it seemed to work fine. If someone could shed some light on this it would be great. Kind regards, Nav") Category: [General Talk about HikaShop](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop "Suggest your feature requests and ideas for HikaShop") Topic started 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89184 "Hi, www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ashop-changelog.html Regards,") 13 years 8 months ago by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:948 | [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89184 "Hi, www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ashop-changelog.html Regards,") by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
| [](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89144) | [Click twice on each screen on checkout](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89144 "Hi if some someone could shed some light on this? I know others have had this problem too. But some reason on the checkout workflow I have to press twice for at each stage. Everything else is fine, when it was the default checkout with all things in it seemed to work fine. If someone could shed some light on this it would be great. Kind regards, Nav") Category: [General Talk about HikaShop](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop "Suggest your feature requests and ideas for HikaShop") Topic started 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89184 "Hi, www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ashop-changelog.html Regards,") 13 years 8 months ago by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:948 | [Last Post](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/78158-click-twice-on-each-screen-on-checkout#89184 "Hi, www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ashop-changelog.html Regards,") by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#88941) | [Google product data feed and variants](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#88941 "Hi if someone could shed some light on this? I have more than 1000 products in my store. with variants included around 21,000 items. When creating the google data feeds some are showing as not in stock, because it seems that I should add all the variants together for the main product. Google has a provision for variants: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer....en&answer=2886435#GB It is impossible for me to add all the variants together and the feed is constantly rejected. This is a massive short coming of hikashop and there must a workaround for the this great shopping cart. It is no use having the best cart and ecommerce store if we cannot bring customers in? Kind regards,") 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 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89348 "The error "Error type Percentage Count" means that there is an issue with the price format. We would need a sample of your XML to say anything on that. Regarding the missing UPI, that depends on the category of your products: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160161 You can actually usually solve the second issue yourself with the configuration of the plugin. Here is a table of the required field based on the type of the product: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1344057 The mpn can be added by turning on the "add code" option of the plugin (that will put the product code in it. The brand can be added by filling the brand option of the plugin with some text. So again, I don't see any link with the variants data here. As I said in my previous message, the variant data is not used by the plugin. It sure could technically be added. But I doubt your server would be able to export a XML file built from 22K records. Loading all that in memory will almost certainly make the page processing crash. That would require to redo the plugin from the ground up to load the data little by little while the XML is constructed and sent to the browser. While it's not impossible, that's a huge task.") 13 years 8 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:839 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/78119-google-product-data-feed-and-variants#89348 "The error "Error type Percentage Count" means that there is an issue with the price format. We would need a sample of your XML to say anything on that. Regarding the missing UPI, that depends on the category of your products: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160161 You can actually usually solve the second issue yourself with the configuration of the plugin. Here is a table of the required field based on the type of the product: support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1344057 The mpn can be added by turning on the "add code" option of the plugin (that will put the product code in it. The brand can be added by filling the brand option of the plugin with some text. So again, I don't see any link with the variants data here. As I said in my previous message, the variant data is not used by the plugin. It sure could technically be added. But I doubt your server would be able to export a XML file built from 22K records. Loading all that in memory will almost certainly make the page processing crash. That would require to redo the plugin from the ground up to load the data little by little while the XML is constructed and sent to the browser. While it's not impossible, that's a huge task.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775) | [Duplicate URLs and duplicate titles](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775 "Hi I have finished my website and now that I am optimizing my site for search engines and I seem to be having a problem with duplicate content and urls I have over 1000 products which is leading to around 6000 duplicates entries. The url should be shown like this: www.mysite.co.uk/all-products/Product/32...core-bodywarmer.html but under some menus the url is shown like: www.mysite.co.uk/bestsellers/Product/329...core-bodywarmer.html and www.mysite.co.uk/component/hikashop/Prod...core-bodywarmer.html I know that Joomla has different ways to point at things, but there must be a way to make the urls the same for all the products. we can change via it redj addons, but there is not tutorial on how we can use it for Hikashop. Or we could we use the .htaccess But the problem then arises that google still sees the duplicate urls on the page. And we are using the server to change things. After analysing my page at seomoz I get the following") 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 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775 "Thanks Nicolas I have done that. I have also configured redj for 301 redirects and left that there to pick up anything that is errant. for anyone out that there that needs to configure redj then here is the syntax for hikashop if you have seo enabled in joomla and the hikashop seo. In Hikashop SEO I have: category sef: Departments. products sef: products. I ended up having various menus so these are the rules I created in ReDJ from: ^/bestsellers/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /bestsellers/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/component/hikashop/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /component/hikashop/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/departments/Product/* to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /departments/Product/}{queryfull} Thanks Nav") 13 years 8 months ago by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:725 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775 "Thanks Nicolas I have done that. I have also configured redj for 301 redirects and left that there to pick up anything that is errant. for anyone out that there that needs to configure redj then here is the syntax for hikashop if you have seo enabled in joomla and the hikashop seo. In Hikashop SEO I have: category sef: Departments. products sef: products. I ended up having various menus so these are the rules I created in ReDJ from: ^/bestsellers/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /bestsellers/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/component/hikashop/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /component/hikashop/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/departments/Product/* to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /departments/Product/}{queryfull} Thanks Nav") by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/77879-create-an-alt-tag-for-category-images#87764) | [Create an alt tag for category images](/forum/4-how-to/77879-create-an-alt-tag-for-category-images#87764 "Hi, It will be really great if we could create alt tags for category images. Categories are shown the front page in many shops and this SEO tool is a must for many shops. Is there a way that this can be done ? Kind regards, Nav") 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 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77879-create-an-alt-tag-for-category-images#195366 "Hello, Another solution can be to directly edit the files of the category view which is displaying your category image via "Hikashop->Display->Views".") 11 years 7 months ago by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:845 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77879-create-an-alt-tag-for-category-images#195366 "Hello, Another solution can be to directly edit the files of the category view which is displaying your category image via "Hikashop->Display->Views".") by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") 11 years 7 months ago |
| [](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87601) | [Duplicate URLs and duplicate titles](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87601 "Hi I have finished my website and now that I am optimizing my site for search engines and I seem to be having a problem with duplicate content and urls I have over 1000 products which is leading to around 6000 duplicates entries. The url should be shown like this: www.mysite.co.uk/all-products/Product/32...core-bodywarmer.html but under some menus the url is shown like: www.mysite.co.uk/bestsellers/Product/329...core-bodywarmer.html and www.mysite.co.uk/component/hikashop/Prod...core-bodywarmer.html I know that Joomla has different ways to point at things, but there must be a way to make the urls the same for all the products. we can change via it redj addons, but there is not tutorial on how we can use it for Hikashop. Or we could we use the .htaccess But the problem then arises that google still sees the duplicate urls on the page. And we are using the server to change things. After analysing my page at seomoz I get the following") 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 13 years 8 months ago, by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775 "Thanks Nicolas I have done that. I have also configured redj for 301 redirects and left that there to pick up anything that is errant. for anyone out that there that needs to configure redj then here is the syntax for hikashop if you have seo enabled in joomla and the hikashop seo. In Hikashop SEO I have: category sef: Departments. products sef: products. I ended up having various menus so these are the rules I created in ReDJ from: ^/bestsellers/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /bestsellers/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/component/hikashop/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /component/hikashop/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/departments/Product/* to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /departments/Product/}{queryfull} Thanks Nav") 13 years 8 months ago by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:725 | [Last Post](/forum/4-how-to/77852-duplicate-urls-and-duplicate-titles#87775 "Thanks Nicolas I have done that. I have also configured redj for 301 redirects and left that there to pick up anything that is errant. for anyone out that there that needs to configure redj then here is the syntax for hikashop if you have seo enabled in joomla and the hikashop seo. In Hikashop SEO I have: category sef: Departments. products sef: products. I ended up having various menus so these are the rules I created in ReDJ from: ^/bestsellers/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /bestsellers/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/component/hikashop/Product/ to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /component/hikashop/Product/}{queryfull} from: ^/departments/Product/* to: myurl.com/all-products/Product/{pathltrim /departments/Product/}{queryfull} Thanks Nav") by [mair](/forum/user/9742-mair "View mair's Profile") 13 years 8 months ago |
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