osCmax v2.5 Beta 3 Released - Discussion thread

[norman]

Michael,
I did upgrade to Beta3. Dumped my data, created new DB during the install so everything is fresh. Upgraded php to 5.3.4. Modified my old csv file to add v_atttribute_values_stock column for each attribute.

Several things happen.
1- I can not seem to add more than 356 option values. Past that point easy populate looks like it is working but the values do not get to the database. I actually have over 4000 Childrens names to include as options.
2. If I try more than once to upload and include in the database a couple of things happen seemingly without reason. Sometimes but not always it will take column headers and create nested catagories such as v_attribute_values_id. At other times it will remove the value I have put in V_attribute_values_price from some but not all of the names. That means I have to go to attribute manager and put a check mark in each line.

These things seem to happen erratically.

Any suggestions?

[pgmarshall]

norman,

EP is limited by the width of the Excel sheet for attributes. If you have 4000 names as attributes you are going to struggle.

I think we discuss this before regarding using the category structure instead:

Boys
--A
----Adam
------ Your products
----Andrew

--B
--C
--D
--E
Girls
--A
--B
--C
--D

Not sure how many products you have but if it is only a few then you could set these as product attributes.

Otherwise - I would suggest using phpMyAdmin to export and reimport ...

Regards,

[met00]

Norman,

Welcome to what I call "parts hell". This is a similar problem to that a client of mine has with parts. As an example, there is a filter system that he sells that has 100 parts, he sells the complete system, but he also sells the parts (which have a much higher margin). The problem is how to associate all the parts to the product. Then multiply that times the 20 filter systems, some with overlapping parts, and you start to see where this becomes a nightmare.

There is no easy solution with stock osc or stock osCmax. The best solution I have found that works in these situations is something called master products (available at the mothership and requires a great deal of coding to fit into osCmax 2.X). This creates a master product, and then under it slave products (a good thing when each slave has it's own SKU). While this is a temporary solution it can become a mess (only one master per slave, which means duplicate slaves if there are many masters).

That said, I am working on a mod right now (it will be part of a BIA-osCmax package with a number of other mods, like adding a cost field to products and margin reports) to handle just this situation. In the mod it will also have a version of easypop that is designed to upload all the products using all the new fields. My goal is to get the mods package released about the same time as RC1, but it will release as a package (it is very integrated) not as a series of individual mods.

In the meantime, you may want to look at the old master products mod as a potential solution.

[ridexbuilder]

EP... Excel sheet for attributes....

You're having a laugh!
Remove those MS blinkers and use OpenOffice for goodness sake.

[norman]

pgmarshall,
Thanks for the fast reply.

We did indeed discuss that structure before. I was able to get easy populate to work in osCmax 2.0.3 and have most if not all the names in my available options but was never able to get a text box working. Now thanks to ridexbuilder and his fabulous work I have the text option but now am having problems with easy populate.

I do not think my problem at this point is related to the excel limitation since my csv has only 357 names (times four colums each) plus the overhead columns for tabs etc. In other words I am nowhere near the excel capacity. I even created a totally new csv file with only 6 names. If I try to upload it using easy populate it looks like it works, does not give an error but no names are put into the data base with any of the EP options (normal, new or update). It does however create new categories and subcategories and removes the v_attribute_values_price from some or all of the 356 names already in the database. I have not been able to get easy populate to add even one additional name since 356.

met00 - thanks for your reply also. Sounds way too complicated for me.

ridexbuilder - point well taken. Your advice has always been good. I will try building my file in open calc but I have done that before and do not remember that it helped other than number of columns which is not the issue right now!

To all others who read this - ridexbuilder has been invaluable to me on getting a text box.

[ridexbuilder]

Assuming that you had no issue with 2.0.3 EP, compare the setting in that file to your new one and adjust to match.
Most relevant settings:

Replace quotes: false
Field seperator: tab
Excel safe output: true
Preserve tab/cr/lf: false

Note: the above are only the admin visible settings and a file compare is better.

[Oh no! PGM has caught me up in Rep. Power - again. ]

[JC1]

Hello

I am fairly new with the osCmax platform, and we have had the latest version (V2.5 Beta 3) loaded and installed in order to evaluate if this is a valuable platform for our needs. And I think it is (although I am not at all a programmer).

There are however some points that are no clear to me regarding the compatibility of modules developed for the osCommerce Online Merchant
V2.3 and the latest osCmax 2.5 Beta 3.

More precisely we are interested in integrating a Discount Code module presented by Mr Michael Sasek in the following thread:
Forum - osCommerce 2.2 Forum - New osCommerce Contributions - Discount Code.


My questions are the following: Can I assume that there the latest Discount Code module (update 2.9 for osCommerce 2.2) is compatible with
osCmax 2.5 Beta 3?.
And can it be integrated fairly easily (by PHP programmers of course)?

If it is compatible, has anyone done it and have any advices about doing it?

Thank you in advance for the help and informations.

Regards
Jacques



Here is the content of the message in the cited thread be Mr Michael Sasek:

"Changes:
- Added discount code editing
Screenshots are available at
http://high-quality-php-coding.com/d...scommerce.html
Discount Code for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1 can be downloaded at
osCommerce Community Add-Ons
More..."

[michael_s]

osCmax 2.5 is based on osCommerce 2.2, not 2.3, so most any module made for v2.2 osCommerce will work with osCmax with minimal tweaking. There are some exceptions as there are certain mods that conflict with each other and will not co-exist without rewriting the mods to respect each other. But for the most part you will be fine if you stick to 2.2 based mods.

[cabana]

Will 2.5 support the new FedEx requirements. Their existing quote systems goes away this spring. Doe 2.5 use the new WSDL method for getting quotes. Does it also use the WSDL method for printing Fedex labels? If so this is reason enough to get a move on upgrading my site.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on 2.5 from what I have seen it is a huge leap for osCmax.

[ridexbuilder]

Will 2.5 support the new FedEx requirements... If so this is reason enough to get a move on upgrading my site.

We better say no, to give Met00 some breathing space