Re: [Jason] Showing featured products in separate section

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:20:15 -0700

Thanks Jason. I submitted the request.

Re: [Jason] Showing featured products in separate section

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:28:14 -0700

Let's try this again :)

Re: [Jason] Showing featured products in separate section

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:19:36 -0700

Sure - attached.

Re: [Jason] Showing featured products in separate section

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:16:01 -0700

Hi Jason,

Thanks for help on this! I tried the changes as per below and ran into two issues.

1. On the What's New page, we actually don't want to list the individual products. We just want to list the brands that correspond to them as links (similar to how they appear on the Cheeses/View All Products page (but not list the individual products below). Then clicking on the links will take you to the existing Brand page.

The logic for this page is working correctly though. You'll see that we've tagged 2 products are 'featured' and they are displaying.

2. The other brand pages now are not listing any of the products.

We've uploaded these changes on our test site: http://test.finica.com

Let me know if you need me to attach any files. Any input is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Claudia

Re: [Jason] Showing featured products in separate section

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:58:04 -0700

Hi Jason,

Sure thing. I'm attaching a copy a few page types for your reference. The nav menu on the left is hardcoded, you'll be able to see the code in any of the attached php files (is this what you're referring to by menu list, or are you referring to the links regenerated on the What's New page? - the template used there is brandsDetail.php).

We've combined multiple list pages into one to create the category pages (product_categoriesDetail.php). These list the brands with the individual product links for each.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks,
Claudia

Showing featured products in separate section

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:01:09 -0700

Hi,

We manage a gourmet food website where the products are organized by Product Categories, Brands and Products, in that hierarchical order. www.finica.com.

The site has a What's New section where we display new/featured products. However these are duplicate items. Because we cannot assign more than 1 brand to an item, these items were assigned the brand "What's New". I know that to do this correctly we should set the products up using a 'featured' checkbox in the product page, but I'm not entirely clear on how to do this (even after having read some posts on the matter). Our PHP knowledge is limited.

How do we set this up to correctly display the products without having to duplicate them?

One thing to note - on the What's New section, we only want to list the brands that include a featured product, we do not want to list the products. So we would have to check the product's featured value, but display its corresponding brand. Then when the brand name is clicked, this will load the existing brand page of the site. We would like to highlight that a product is 'new' by adding the text "New" after the product name, triggered by a check of the 'featured' field value.

Any help that you could lend on this is very much appreciated!

Thank you,
Claudia

Re: [Dave] Flash uploader doesn't work with latest version of Chrome

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:13:32 -0700

Hi Dave,

I encountered this same problem using IE 9. Have you heard of it affecting IE as well? Or any thoughts on what could be causing this?

Thanks!

Problem loading the Admin Panel

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:55:03 -0700

Recently we have not been able to log in to the CSM Builder Admin panel on our website's test subdomain. I'm not sure if this was a result of migrating our website to a new hosting server. I believe this has to do with permissions. This is the error that loads when we try to load the Admin panel page:

Couldn't start session! 'session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_8alppqk9nsp858fi4q3p31a537, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)'! Warning: Unknown: open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_8alppqk9nsp858fi4q3p31a537, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/session) in Unknown on line 0

We are able to load the Admin Panel on the live directory of the site.

Any help would be appreciated!

thanks,

Claudia

Re: [Damon] Entries disappear from AM v 1.41 after a day

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:18:25 -0700

Hi Damon,

Thanks for your reply. We will double check those items. Could you tell me what the correct permissions should be for the system to run correctly?

thanks,

Claudia

Entries disappear from AM v 1.41 after a day

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:35:24 -0700

We are experiencing an issue on our client's website that uses AM v 1.41 where new articles are disappearing after a day or so of having been added.

We have AM installed on both the live site and a test directory (for devel purposes). A few month's ago the AM on the test directory became inaccessible (browser would just sit idle when we tried loading the exec.cgi), so our hosting company copied the entire AM folder from the live site to the test directory. This all seemed to work fine after adjusting the publish and uploads paths accordingly under Setup Options. However we later noticed that a good deal of the records from the live site were no longer available (anything newer than 2006 was not visible on the live site), but all records were available on the test directory. I assumed the hosting company had moved the data incorrectly leaving holes.

The hosting company was not familiar with AM, so they suggested they copy all the files from the test directory back to the live. This worked and brought all records back. However when we added new records, we noticed that a day or so later, these records had disappeared from AM. But if we tried to enter those records again the system gave an error that those particular filenames were in use. This told me that the data existed somewhere but was not accessible to the system.

Is there some setting that got copied over incorrectly in going back and forth from the live to the test directories that would cause this problem? Or any ideas on why this is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks,

Claudia

Re: [coliva] Setting up categories, subcategories and records

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:16:29 -0700

I figured out how to write the condition to only show only the links pertaining to the selected brand within the detail page:

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Re: [coliva] Setting up categories, subcategories and records

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:03:13 -0700

Hi Jason,

I'm working on nesting the list or records from my brandList viewer into my product_categoryDetail page, but wanted to know how to limit the list so that only the brands that pertain to the selected product category display. I'm sure it involves an IF statement and the values of the pulldown lists, but i'm not certain how to write this out. Could you help me here please?

The same would apply for nesting the list of records from my productsList viewer into my brandDetail page.

I read the post by Chris describing how to set up a categories list to show the records, but in my case i'm not using a category menu item but instead just the records lists.

Here's what my code looks like:

 // load records  
  list($product_categoriesRecords, $product_categoriesMetaData) = getRecords(array(  
    'tableName'   => 'product_categories',  
    'where'       => whereRecordNumberInUrl(1),  
    'limit'       => '1',  
  ));  
 
  list($brandsRecords, $brandsMetaData) = getRecords(array(  
    'tableName'   => 'brands',  
  ));  
 
  $product_categoriesRecord = @$product_categoriesRecords[0]; // get first record

And how I'm displaying the records:

Re: [Jason] Setting up categories, subcategories and records

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:19:31 -0700

Thank you so much Jason. Yes, the structure is as you stated. I will try this solution out and let you know if I have any other questions.

Setting up categories, subcategories and records

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:23:43 -0700

Hi CMS team,

What is the best way to set up my page structure in CMSB for a site that is 3 levels deep? And then how do I set up the category menu in order to create a nav menu?

Our site will consist of:

Level 1 - Product Category sections - (ie, Cheeses)
- Level 2 - Brand sections (ie, Kraft)
- Level 3 - Individual product pages

We would like the Product Category sections to list all the brands and their related product links. The Brand sections would list the individual product links, and we'd also like to include (at the top of the page) a brand image and brand description, managed by CMSB.

I created multi-record section editors for each of the product categories: Cheeses, Sauces, Olis & Vinegars. These editors includes the fields: title, content, brand image and category (list). I then created records for each of the brands under the respective categories.

I also created multi-record section editors for each of the brands. These editors include the fields: title, content, category (list), image (upload).

I created a category menu group with the correct site hierarchy, and specified these categories within each of the records created for the brands above.

I've searched through numerous posts on how to bring this all together but haven't found a simple answer. Could you please either point me to the correct post or lend some insight into how to correctly set up the structure and link the pages together? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you in advance!
Claudia

Create expandable category nav menu

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:47:14 -0700

Hi! I'm new to CMS Builder but have used your Article Manager in the past and loved it! I'm a designer with some baisc programming experience (not much PHP though) and was hoping you could guide me with some pointers on how to create an expandable category menu.

This would be a left column menu bar. The top-level categories would remain closed until the user rolled over them, at which point they would expand to show the subcategories.

Closed menu:

- Our Company
- Product Cat 1
- Product Cat 2
- Product Cat 3

Expanded menu:

Our Company
-- About Us
-- Contact

Product Cat 1
-- Brand A
-- Brand B
-- Brand C

Product Cat 2
-- Brand D
-- Brand F

etc...

I've created pages for the Product Category pages, which are a compilation of all the Brands list pages. I've also created a categoriesList page with this hierarchy.

Any help would be appreciated! Please let me know if you need to attach my files/code.

thanks -

Claudia