Mark

OK so right now I have no images, I have no idea how to change the settings so I have images. The settings I have are at the start of this thread and I believe that they are set by the theme and I dont want want to particularly play with those.

Ok so I need to know what the settings should be (/solutions is the account in which everything sits)

Ive just undertaken a bleeding edge update which I believe incorporate's @Traumflug's changes. Unfortunately now I seem to have no images at product.solutions.org.nz When updating the thumbnails I get Original image is corrupt (/home/solution/public_html/product/img/p/1/9/4/194.jpg) or bad permission on folder

OK, so I have been watching this issue here for which I need an update into my production site. I really do not want to add @Traumflug's code fixes from GitHub directly and in isolation as doing so could affect something else that I haven't yet updated that is also sitting under development. So in order to immediately bring in his changes I would need to do a bleeding edge update into production, which you do not recommend (Understandably). I cant really wait until it goes into Stable mode so what do you suggest?

yesterday I signed up as supporter, with no history on patreon, it seems to have gone fine and i come up on here correctly as a supporter

OK, I had to manually delete the community theme and manually reinstall. What should the image settings be for "home" (Note they also dont sometimes appear in the back office and in places other than "home" either)

An example is here https://product.solutions.org.nz/remote-car-alarm-with-central-locking-and-engine-disable You'll notice in the back office all of these images are presented as placeholder images (image attached) Im using community theme

Hi around the time I updated to 1.1.0 many images became unusable by the system and now just have camera image placeholders throughout the site. Uploading new replacement images doesn't help. Ive tried regenerating thumbnails and the .htaccess file The process is that Im uploading product images, they upload fine, but then show as camera image placeholders in the back office. Sometimes they appear fine on the front office, sometimes not. Thinking its possibly something to do with Image Generation, Ive attached two pictures here of my image management section

My problem was primarily something to do with changing themes. Something in doing that caused something to go pear shaped. Then I had a few other issues as I mentioned above (including the 500 errors), but right now, things are working. When I'm feeling brave enough, I will try again with the Niara theme. Note: I've just updated the Core which will probably deal with the 500 errors see as Traumflug has fixed those

I went to the thirtybees store, created an account, logged in, tried to download it (seems like the old version) . Download didnt' work, just went to homepage Then I went to git hub, uploaded the zip file..... 500 error Now I will try to FTP..... FTP failed... 500 error by using the Theme import Tried FTP using direct... that worked, files uploaded. Unfortunately now the theme controller wont install new theme because it has same name as old theme... I guess I have to manually delete old files.... Deleted old theme files... Now in the theme page... Bad or missing config.xml in theme in /home/solution/public_html/product/themes/community-theme-default. No surprise there as I deleted it.... Now the whole front end has a 500 error.... Suggestions???? @SLiCK_303 @datakick Restored trashed old community theme files, 500 error gone Renamed old theme community-theme-old, saved this change to newly created "backup" directory (within themes) Was now free to install, then enable the new community theme This works! Except that all the configurations I made to the old theme yesterday are unsurprisingly gone More time to reconfigure....

The community theme is there but either the theme or the files controlling are corrupted or misconfigured.

1.1.0 I did exactly as I said above. I had everything running sweetly on the community theme then I decided to try the other one. An error message popped up about failing to load a key XML file. I'm sorry I didn't record the name of the file, but it did sound like a key config file for a theme to load. After that fail I tried to re-establish the community theme but it didn't work either (no error message).

The new theme Niara failed to load properly, and then I couldn't revert to the community theme. Then I deleted Niara, but still no theme. Im themeless. How do I get the community theme back?

Hello. For the most part my newish site is mostly functional, not great UI at the moment. There's things that I'm sure arent right and could well be better for users. Maybe there's things I can very easily change to make it look better and be more logical and helpful., Im open to suggestions There are some errors that seem obvious to me, but its more my lack of understanding I'm sure than the site itself. Thank you in advance for your time to look and offer solutions and thoughts. On the home page: https://product.solutions.org.nz/ Only one of my categories is there, despite me ticking for them all to be there The information panel isnt visible on the home page, its only visible if I click this category https://product.solutions.org.nz/car-and-boat-parts-and-accessories The information panel contains "Our Stores" which I have no idea where that comes from, but it shouldnt be there, we are online only. It just presents users with a failed Google API page and I want it gone. The information panel doesn't contain some of the pages I created in Preferences/ CMS, and which are ticked as "Yes" as Displayed. I'd like some of the CMS info to be available as a say a footer on all pages..?

Wow, thats good thanks @datakick

So how do we get some changes on this?

Yeah. Anytime admin manually creates a password for someone, then admin has to tell them what it is, it screams arrrggghh at the customer. All my sales seem to be to admin created accounts and there's lots wrong with the process when it's done that way. Those things include: Address: everything time I have to create the same dummy address Two unecessary and very slow js screens of address management Having to create false emails is understandable but not really right.

Is this a question for me @Factor? Geolocation is quite an important function in many cases and hopefully we can get back to trusting Geolocation, but am I the guy that decides about the priority?

Yep I agree Andy. Date of birth is a shocker because giving the right info can lead to privacy issues and I'd rather never know that info then noone can get suspicious. Unless we are selling age restricted items... But let's face it people would just make up dob if they weren't the right age anyway, who are we kidding? Mr and Mrs is not all the options Telephone is still good though as an option should we need to discuss the order. We are only selling stuff here, and we want to sell as much as possible with minimal hassle for them. Need to remove all unnecessary things that prevent sign up or order. Having a Google api to auto add addresses would be a nice to have but probably a bit of an unnecessary luxury against all the other higher priority things.

@datakick If the order is with a customer with an unknown email I will create the order etc by fake email as @wakabayashi suggests but any payment gets handled outside the system then the order updated manually. Also slightly related to this topic, but possibly deserving of its own topic is customer addresses. Having a default customer address would work well, save time establishing admin created customer accounts. It might sound odd having no address data for customers.... I deal with the details they give me outside the system, usually private messaged on social media.Until fairly recently I've just been using the site as just an inventory keeping thing plus a public display of stock. People actually can't be bothered signing up and just want what they want. As good as the site is, people just want to flick money into a bank account or pay cash because this way it takes just a 20 seconds to pay direct credit People are lazy, but forcing them to do things they think are unnecessary can lose sales.

At this stage just envisaging for products only.

Hi Is anyone able to provide an idea of time involved in modifying the permissions structure so that as well as View, Edit, Add, Delete there was the same permissions again but just for those the user created.ie View Own, Edit Own, Add Own, Delete Own. For example, Once the user has added their own products, they can then only see and edit, delete, etc, those they created.

If I create a customer account in the backend, I have to do so with a password. There's no system generation of passwords, so I make it something simple, like "password", very silly, but Im not creating an individual one every time. But no matter what it is, I know their password and I should not. Then the customer gets notified of the new account, but doesn't know the password. I tell them the password outside the system, not cool. They will invariably think this a bit dodgy. This is a bit marginal in terms of professionalism and data security. The process should probably be that if an account is admin created, that the customer receives an email including an encrypted system generated password that they are encouraged to change and that only they know what it is from the email. I realise sending the password via email isnt perfect for security either but it has to be given to them somehow, this is the best way I see

Thanks all. Its a workaround, but its a good one and work well, easy. It would be better and more true if they implemented a change as per what I said, but this is good.

Hi, The vast bulk of the shipping seems based on dimensions and weight, apart from one very useful option in Catalog/Products called "Additional shipping fees (for a single item)". I don't want to enter all product dimensions and weights and I don't want them to be a factor in delivery costs either. The expansion would be to add the price for multiples of that product. For example Delivery Charge for one widget under the "Additional shipping fees (for a single item) " is say $5 Then I should be able to enter in the price for different amounts ie 2 x widgets is $7.50, 3 x widgets is $9 etc etc. I realise that this will not work so well when combining different products into one parcel. If I want to do that, I need to do things by weights and measures.