AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hi,

I've not been using AbleCommerce for long, so my apologies if this is a silly question.

I am using the out of the box category tree, and when a category is selected the tree is hidden. Could you please tell me how I can prevent this so that it is always displayed?

Thanks

Rob

It will be very easy all you need are some configurations to be made. First visit some category from merchant account then from page's bottom edit the page. It will bring some CMS editing options for example check if there is any sidebar available. You can also change page layout I mean right sidebar or left side bar etc. Once you are done with layout edit desired sidebar where you want categories to be displayed and put following ConLib usage statement there for category tree.

Hello,
I recently have started the trial demo here at AC. The interface is easy to use which is nice, but already I found a few things that don't make any sense.
1: --- I agree with gardnerr, I discovered on my own that when using the "ConLib:SimpleCategoryList", the category menu in the sidebar does not display the root categories and so on... so as you click, it only shows where you are, not where you started, and the where you've been, (Automotive/Engine/Ignition/Spark Plugs, etc..), so if you have navigated all the way to ignition, it only shows ignition. When using "ConLib:CatalogTree", this is just plain ugly, so who would use this? and still when using "ConLib:CatalogTree" it doesn't maintain where you are or show where you are in the tree.
2: --- Why in the world would I need Captcha on the user login? The captcha should be on the New Member Sign-Up page. Once this is done you don't need the Captcha on the user login because you already verified that the user is human when they signed-up as a new member. So the software as it is allows robots to create new memberships with no Captcha. All it asks for is email and password and reenter password.
3: --- Why can't you add ConLib:SimilaProducts to the Cart, Basket or Checkout pages?

1: --- I agree with gardnerr, I discovered on my own that when using the "ConLib:SimpleCategoryList", the category menu in the sidebar does not display the root categories and so on... so as you click, it only shows where you are, not where you started, and the where you've been, (Automotive/Engine/Ignition/Spark Plugs, etc..), so if you have navigated all the way to ignition, it only shows ignition. When using "ConLib:CatalogTree", this is just plain ugly, so who would use this?

Read following thread
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=7829
And also there are some category listing controls posted in Good Reference forum you can look at them as well

2: --- Why in the world would I need Captcha on the user login? The captcha should be on the New Member Sign-Up page. Once this is done you don't need the Captcha on the user login because you already verified that the user is human when they signed-up as a new member. So the software as it is allows robots to create new memberships with no Captcha. All it asks for is email and password and reenter password.

Captcha on login dialog is to avoid bot login attempts, you can turn on/off captcha for both customer/merchants by updating their password policy under Administration > Configure > Security > Password Policy.
Regarding second part, I am agree with you application should support captcha on registration process as well to avoid bots. I will log it in logs in while for further processing.

3: --- Why can't you add ConLib:SimilaProducts to the Cart, Basket or Checkout pages?

The reason is that similar products control needs a product id to get its similar products. The pages you mentioned don't have product id because those are not specific to just one product that's why out of the box control won't work on those pages. You can customize the control to show similar products depending upon your custom criteria to load products. For example iterate over complete basket and then loading similar products for each product in basket.

You can track progress on captcha requirement on user registration here
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8416

Thank you, this is nice to see how aggressive the AC staff is to make something happen. I am Demo testing both this and AspDotNetStoreFront software simultaneously to see which will be our choice for our upcoming ecommerce website solution.