Adding fake orders to pre-populate Popular Items

dave_reach · Post by **dave_reach** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:14 am

Hi,

The site I am creating is displaying Popular Products, and when we go live we don't particularly want an empty space there.

Would it be easy enough to create some fake orders in the system to pre-populate this data? Alternatively i'll display featured items over popular products if no popular products exist.

Also, while i'm on the subject of orders and payments - I am currently attempting to use google checkout - however AbleCommerce is always sending the cart as USD but my seller account is GBP. Is there a way to change this? There must be an option some where, i'm probably just a bit too slow to spot it. I added this code to the BuildPrivateData function in GoogleCheckoutButton.ascx.cs

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tempNode1=tempDoc.CreateElement("currency");
tempNode1.InnerText="GBP";
privateData.Add(tempNode1);

I didn't expect it to work, and wasn't disappointed.

Thanks,
Dave.

jmestep · Post by **jmestep** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:16 am

Currency-- Do you have GBP set as your default currency in the store? If so, this might be a bug.
Featured products-- you can do it that way but you will have to experiment with whether you have to mark the orders paid, shipped, etc.

dave_reach · Post by **dave_reach** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:23 am

Hi,

My base currency is GBP, yes. I have deleted USD from my currency list but have added EUR (Euros).

This was all done when I was first configuring my copy of Able.

Thanks for your input,
Dave.