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[angelalaw]

Couple of questions coming to mind that I never asked or really checked out..

1) Thumbnail Grid product display page. Is there a *noncoding* way through admin to display "Out of Stock". It seems it only shows that if they click add to cart and find it is out of stock?
2) Shopping Cart on the right hand side bar. Is there a *non coding* way to limit the number of items it will show? It appears to go on indefinitely? Or perhaps show the total and number of items in the cart (this probably sounds like something I would have to write)?

So far I am doing well, 90% stylized it, Home page needs to be done. Imported the product and assets from my other shopping cart system. I did this by hand via sql server.

Although, I would say it would be nice to have a bulk import of images. I modifed the page and made my own bulk import that would read through an importfiles directory do what it would normally do and delete the file once imported. This would be a valuable feature to have. As when I add images it is not by the onezees.

Your help is appreciated,

Angela

[Katie]

Hi Angela,

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Is there a *noncoding* way through admin to display "Out of Stock". It seems it only shows that if they click add to cart and find it is out of stock?

Yes, from the edit product page, turn on your inventory tracking and make sure the Allow Backorder button is not checked. It will display a message on the product page that indicates the item is not in stock. The Add to Cart button will also disappear.

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Shopping Cart on the right hand side bar. Is there a *non coding* way to limit the number of items it will show?

It would take a customization, but you might want to search through the forums first. I would bet that someone has already tried to do this and the code might already be available.

Regarding your images...it's probably too late to convert, but there is a nice feature on the Website > Logo and Images page. It's called "Product Image Lookup by SKU". Basically, if you check this option and name your images so the beginning matches the SKU of the product, it will automatically create the reference from product to image. You might want to check it out.

Hope this helps,

Katie

[angelalaw]

Hi Katie,

Thanks for your response.

Yes, from the edit product page, turn on your inventory tracking and make sure the Allow Backorder button is not checked. It will display a message on the product page that indicates the item is not in stock. The Add to Cart button will also disappear.

I have Tracking Product and an unchecked Back order.

If I goto my product list for the category, I see my Product. There is an "Add To Cart" Button in the *thumbnail* area. If I click Add to Cart. It goes to the cart and says items is currently out of stock and shows me an empty cart.

Is there a way for it to *not* show the "add to Cart" button *when* no stock is available and have it say "Out of Stock" instead. this is in the *thumbnail* listing area.

Thanks, Angela

[Katie]

Hi,

The inventory control for individual products doesn't work the same on the category pages. It might have something to do with performance and the additional overhead to calculate on a per-product basis. Think of a catalog that had thousands of products and hundreds being displayed for a particular category.

The best solution would be to use your Manage > Inventory report which will show you each product with no stock available. Click the link to edit the product and then temporarily disable it for purchase.

Thanks,
Katie

[angelalaw]

Hi Katie,

Thank you for your response.

Actually, my current shopping cart (Candy Press) does this.

And while there might be thousands. Only a few are showing on the screen at time when it is out putting. That is why you have paging on these pages. So you don't show thousands, becuase that would be unusable for user. And take too long to download.

This would be a nice addition to the software. And it would not be difficult to add. A simple yes no to display, means one more column in the database and another field to save and display on the configuration page.

And then when displaying the thumbnail item, simple psuedo code (meaning not real code)

protected void grid_OnRowDatabound(sender, eventargs)
{
getDataItem
findcontrol lblOutOfStock
findcontrol btnAddtoCart
if (Display==true && ItemStock==0)
{
lblOutOfStock.Text = "Currently Out Of Stock";
btnAddToCart.visible = false;
}
else
{
lblOutOfStock.Text = "";
btnAddToCart.visible = true;
}
}

At most with real code it might be 20-30 lines of additional code in the back end. And just one more label on the aspx page.

For implementing in the category list page.

And the Yes/No for saving in cofniguration screen would be similar probably less code on the back end, more code on the front end.

I hope you relay this request enhancement to the developer team, as it really would not impact performance all that much since it only pertains to those items being displayed on the web page at the time.

This actually is *no* different logically than the Add to Cart and More Details switch the software does when madatory options are included on the product.

Anyway thanks again, I will implemented myself,

Angela