[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Profile for eskimoroll ## [![eskimoroll's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") **[ Offline](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll)** - **User Type:** User - **Register Date:** 14 Oct 2012 - **Last login:** 7 years 7 months ago - **Time Zone:** UTC +0:00 - **Local Time:** 23:18 - **Posts:** 43 - **Profile views:** 151 - **Thank you received:** 3 - **Gender:** Unknown - **Birthdate:** Unknown - Posts # eskimoroll's recent posts (43 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/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242) | [Email activation message appears outside view, users are not informed.](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.4 -- PHP version -- : 7.2.16 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Mobile browsers -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : none Hello, this happens almost exclusively on devices/mobiles. Some of our users don't realise an activation email is sent because they do not see the green message indicating it. It happens when a user starts a checkout process and must register. Since the screens are smaller, by the time they get to the bottom and press 'Register', they cannot see the green message at the top which informs about the activation email. A good chunk of our users (they are an older demo) think the site is misbehaving and we find many accounts created but not activated (no they aren't bots, we've contacted the users & that is how we know). Would a possible solution be to have an option to make the green activation message appear in multiple places on the screens? So in our case, I would have it appear above/below the 'Register' button. Or a send-redirect to the message? Or are there any other approaches people are using for this?") Category: [Product & Category Display](/forum/26-product-category-display "Questions about product and category display. You can't find how to make Hikashop looks incredible? The answer is here!") Topic started 7 years 7 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242 "Tested & totally worked, my client is happy! Thanks") 7 years 7 months ago by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:478 | [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242 "Tested & totally worked, my client is happy! Thanks") by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") 7 years 7 months ago | | [](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305179) | [Email activation message appears outside view, users are not informed.](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305179 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.4 -- PHP version -- : 7.2.16 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Mobile browsers -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : none Hello, this happens almost exclusively on devices/mobiles. Some of our users don't realise an activation email is sent because they do not see the green message indicating it. It happens when a user starts a checkout process and must register. Since the screens are smaller, by the time they get to the bottom and press 'Register', they cannot see the green message at the top which informs about the activation email. A good chunk of our users (they are an older demo) think the site is misbehaving and we find many accounts created but not activated (no they aren't bots, we've contacted the users & that is how we know). Would a possible solution be to have an option to make the green activation message appear in multiple places on the screens? So in our case, I would have it appear above/below the 'Register' button. Or a send-redirect to the message? Or are there any other approaches people are using for this?") Category: [Product & Category Display](/forum/26-product-category-display "Questions about product and category display. You can't find how to make Hikashop looks incredible? The answer is here!") Topic started 7 years 7 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242 "Tested & totally worked, my client is happy! Thanks") 7 years 7 months ago by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:478 | [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897200-email-activation-message-appears-outside-view-users-are-not-informed#305242 "Tested & totally worked, my client is happy! Thanks") by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") 7 years 7 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301519) | [Intermittant Paypal failures](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301519 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 Hello, We put a new website into production on Nov. 16th and received a bunch of orders through Paypal. There was 0 errors/warnings for about a week, all worked perfectly. Then starting around black friday (nov 23), clients started receiving failures at Paypal. Apparently, according to multiple clients, they complete the order with hikashop (we receive the appropriate confirmation emails) and they are transferred to Paypal....where it fails. Once at Paypal, they can choose to log in or use the "guest" payment method. Either one intermittently fails. I say Intermittently because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We contacted Paypal and they said their systems were fine. So we did 2 transactions while on the phone with them, the first failed, then the second passed....both were done in the same way....So the person on the phone FINALLY admitted that yes, there were some bugs they were working on....good lord! Anyhow, we were just wondering if anyone else has been having issues like this?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:1785 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301472) | [Intermittant Paypal failures](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301472 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 Hello, We put a new website into production on Nov. 16th and received a bunch of orders through Paypal. There was 0 errors/warnings for about a week, all worked perfectly. Then starting around black friday (nov 23), clients started receiving failures at Paypal. Apparently, according to multiple clients, they complete the order with hikashop (we receive the appropriate confirmation emails) and they are transferred to Paypal....where it fails. Once at Paypal, they can choose to log in or use the "guest" payment method. Either one intermittently fails. I say Intermittently because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We contacted Paypal and they said their systems were fine. So we did 2 transactions while on the phone with them, the first failed, then the second passed....both were done in the same way....So the person on the phone FINALLY admitted that yes, there were some bugs they were working on....good lord! Anyhow, we were just wondering if anyone else has been having issues like this?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:1785 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301451) | [Intermittant Paypal failures](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301451 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 Hello, We put a new website into production on Nov. 16th and received a bunch of orders through Paypal. There was 0 errors/warnings for about a week, all worked perfectly. Then starting around black friday (nov 23), clients started receiving failures at Paypal. Apparently, according to multiple clients, they complete the order with hikashop (we receive the appropriate confirmation emails) and they are transferred to Paypal....where it fails. Once at Paypal, they can choose to log in or use the "guest" payment method. Either one intermittently fails. I say Intermittently because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We contacted Paypal and they said their systems were fine. So we did 2 transactions while on the phone with them, the first failed, then the second passed....both were done in the same way....So the person on the phone FINALLY admitted that yes, there were some bugs they were working on....good lord! Anyhow, we were just wondering if anyone else has been having issues like this?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:1785 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301237) | [Intermittant Paypal failures](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301237 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 Hello, We put a new website into production on Nov. 16th and received a bunch of orders through Paypal. There was 0 errors/warnings for about a week, all worked perfectly. Then starting around black friday (nov 23), clients started receiving failures at Paypal. Apparently, according to multiple clients, they complete the order with hikashop (we receive the appropriate confirmation emails) and they are transferred to Paypal....where it fails. Once at Paypal, they can choose to log in or use the "guest" payment method. Either one intermittently fails. I say Intermittently because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We contacted Paypal and they said their systems were fine. So we did 2 transactions while on the phone with them, the first failed, then the second passed....both were done in the same way....So the person on the phone FINALLY admitted that yes, there were some bugs they were working on....good lord! Anyhow, we were just wondering if anyone else has been having issues like this?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:1785 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301192) | [Intermittant Paypal failures](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301192 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 Hello, We put a new website into production on Nov. 16th and received a bunch of orders through Paypal. There was 0 errors/warnings for about a week, all worked perfectly. Then starting around black friday (nov 23), clients started receiving failures at Paypal. Apparently, according to multiple clients, they complete the order with hikashop (we receive the appropriate confirmation emails) and they are transferred to Paypal....where it fails. Once at Paypal, they can choose to log in or use the "guest" payment method. Either one intermittently fails. I say Intermittently because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We contacted Paypal and they said their systems were fine. So we did 2 transactions while on the phone with them, the first failed, then the second passed....both were done in the same way....So the person on the phone FINALLY admitted that yes, there were some bugs they were working on....good lord! Anyhow, we were just wondering if anyone else has been having issues like this?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 7 years 11 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:12 Views:1785 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/896372-intermittant-paypal-failures#301525 "Hi, Thanks for the additional information. Usually, the errors for which you can do something about in HikaShop (like changing some setting in the PayPal payment method) happen right when you arrive on PayPal, before clicking on anything. From what you're saying, I understand that it happens after that, when you click on the pay button on the PayPal interface. In that case, only PayPal will be able to help as this is only something on their end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301072) | [Howto short SEF urls (no cat or product)](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301072 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : chrome/firefox Hello I have a multi-language site (en,fr) and would like to create really short urls to products: french: domain.com/product_name english: domain.com/en/product_name I have gone through ++posts explaining how to add/remove the category and product parts of the url (even generating if not there etc.)...but I have found nothing which lets me exclude both the category & product. I have tried adding the canonical url in the product, ex: /product_name1 But this gives me a 404: domain.com/product_name1 In HS settings I have toggled Force Canonical urls with "Use Canonical URL and generate if missing" Do I need a SEO plugin in order to achieve those short urls? Thanks") Category: [Product & Category Display](/forum/26-product-category-display "Questions about product and category display. You can't find how to make Hikashop looks incredible? The answer is here!") Topic started 8 years 2 days ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301082 "Hi, Yes, your steps are a good way to clean the invalid canonical URLs and avoid issues with 404 routing errors. Then, to have shorter URLs, you would need a SEF alias system and add the URLs manually. I'm not familiar with JoomSef so I wouldn't be able to say if that extension can do that, or even how as I've never used it. Maybe they could help you set that up in the future to improve the URLs for your SEO.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:691 | [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301082 "Hi, Yes, your steps are a good way to clean the invalid canonical URLs and avoid issues with 404 routing errors. Then, to have shorter URLs, you would need a SEF alias system and add the URLs manually. I'm not familiar with JoomSef so I wouldn't be able to say if that extension can do that, or even how as I've never used it. Maybe they could help you set that up in the future to improve the URLs for your SEO.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#300443) | [Howto short SEF urls (no cat or product)](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#300443 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.0 -- PHP version -- : 7.2 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : chrome/firefox Hello I have a multi-language site (en,fr) and would like to create really short urls to products: french: domain.com/product_name english: domain.com/en/product_name I have gone through ++posts explaining how to add/remove the category and product parts of the url (even generating if not there etc.)...but I have found nothing which lets me exclude both the category & product. I have tried adding the canonical url in the product, ex: /product_name1 But this gives me a 404: domain.com/product_name1 In HS settings I have toggled Force Canonical urls with "Use Canonical URL and generate if missing" Do I need a SEO plugin in order to achieve those short urls? Thanks") Category: [Product & Category Display](/forum/26-product-category-display "Questions about product and category display. You can't find how to make Hikashop looks incredible? The answer is here!") Topic started 8 years 2 days ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301082 "Hi, Yes, your steps are a good way to clean the invalid canonical URLs and avoid issues with 404 routing errors. Then, to have shorter URLs, you would need a SEF alias system and add the URLs manually. I'm not familiar with JoomSef so I wouldn't be able to say if that extension can do that, or even how as I've never used it. Maybe they could help you set that up in the future to improve the URLs for your SEO.") 7 years 11 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:691 | [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/896216-howto-short-sef-urls-no-cat-or-product#301082 "Hi, Yes, your steps are a good way to clean the invalid canonical URLs and avoid issues with 404 routing errors. Then, to have shorter URLs, you would need a SEF alias system and add the URLs manually. I'm not familiar with JoomSef so I wouldn't be able to say if that extension can do that, or even how as I've never used it. Maybe they could help you set that up in the future to improve the URLs for your SEO.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 11 months ago | | [](/forum/25-install-update/881830-upgrading-joomla-2-5-28-to-3-4-8-with-hs-2-6-1#227525) | [Upgrading Joomla 2.5.28 to 3.4.8 with HS 2.6.1](/forum/25-install-update/881830-upgrading-joomla-2-5-28-to-3-4-8-with-hs-2-6-1#227525 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.1 -- Joomla version -- : 2.5.28 -- PHP version -- : 5.5 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome (Linux) -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : none Hello, I need to upgrade a Joomla 2.5.28 site to 3.4.8 and I am looking for advice. The site has collected a lot of garbage throughout the years so I've elected to create a blank 3.4.8 site and methodically import the content that is still relevant. I also need to xfer the contents of the HS database to the new site. Currently we are running HS 2.6.1 on Joomla 2.5.28. Before I start, I was wondering if anyone has done this and if there are any caveats? Any advice would be appreciated.") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 10 years 9 months ago, by [eskimoroll](/forum/user/9945-eskimoroll "View eskimoroll's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/881830-upgrading-joomla-2-5-28-to-3-4-8-with-hs-2-6-1#227568 "Hi, Many people have done it before so it shouldn't be a problem. First thing is to transfer your Joomla users from the old website to the new website. Then, export the hikashop_ tables from your old database via your phpmyadmin and import them back to your new database after renaming the prefix of the tables if necessary. Then, copy the media/com_hikashop and images/com_hikashop folders from the old to the new website via FTP. Finally, install HikaShop on the new website and you should get all your HikaShop content back. You'll just have to recreate your menus and modules via the menu/module manager of Joomla unless you have something to port your menus and modules over.") 10 years 9 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:1 Views:956 | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/881830-upgrading-joomla-2-5-28-to-3-4-8-with-hs-2-6-1#227568 "Hi, Many people have done it before so it shouldn't be a problem. First thing is to transfer your Joomla users from the old website to the new website. Then, export the hikashop_ tables from your old database via your phpmyadmin and import them back to your new database after renaming the prefix of the tables if necessary. Then, copy the media/com_hikashop and images/com_hikashop folders from the old to the new website via FTP. Finally, install HikaShop on the new website and you should get all your HikaShop content back. You'll just have to recreate your menus and modules via the menu/module manager of Joomla unless you have something to port your menus and modules over.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 10 years 9 months ago | [](/forum/topics/feed/mode-topics?format=feed&type=rss) Time to create page: 0.063 seconds [Powered by](/forum/credits) [Kunena Forum](https://www.kunena.org)