Hello
Thank you for the tip
In this case I have no third party extension involved for what is concerning shipping methods.
Maybe you are referring to the first line in the picture I posted, which by the way is also a built in feature in Virtuemart, can be found in the shipping method configuration panel, Shop > Shipping Methods, then click your shipping method and go into the configuration tab, as shown in the pictures
Also the feature I was looking for is a native one of Virtuemart, as shown in the pictures.
It can be found in Configuration > Price Configuration > Show delivery message with product price.
Once enabled allows to use a variable to setup a language override showing a tip or a link or whatever else one can achieve by the use of html code.
As in the Joomla! language override system it is possible to input html code is also possible to associate a link to this "delivery information" feature, thus, using html code, add a link to a menu pointing to an article you create for this purpose, e.g. <a href="
https://www.MYWEBSITE.com/someaddress/an-info-page">Delivery information</a>
As a beginner I can share here a few initial impressions about Virtuemart
In Virtuemart there are a lot of built-in features, this is good and of great value, and hopefully there will be more, none the less for a beginner figure out all what has to be done and what optionally can be done can be quite a daunting quest at first glance.
Also, the logics and the variety of methods used to create the various admin and configuration panels are a bit mixed up, to a beginner all of this can look alike a difficult maze.
E.g., as the feature I was trying to setup is concerning shipping methods I was baffled to not find a way to manage it in the section of the admin panel that manages the shipping methods, while in fact in the shipping methods configuration panel there is a similar feature (which is logic) I finally found it among the prices' management admin panel which is just vaguely logic, the only tie to prices for that feature is that appear in a area where some information about prices is shown....
Searching for "delivery-information" or "delivery information" in the forum did not retrieve useful results, searching in internet those same keywords + Virtuemart + and/or other keywords that should help to find some info on that feature did not give useful results as well, searching in the online documentation finally I could find the proper paragraph describing the feature:
"Show delivery message with product price
Some stores wish to show a generic delivery message - this option shows the language variable
COM_VM_PRICES_INFO_DELIVERY below the product price. You can adjust this variable in Joomla! to directly link to your page with delivery information."
A tip for the beginners, when I installed Virtuemart I also activated the new admin panel template, which looks fine and seems to work fine, but do not show pop-up tips when hovering with the mouse cursor on many of the various titles of the features in the panels.
Until you do not know very well all the features in Virtuemart I suggest to not activate the new admin panel template, you might miss to see things that are under your eyes in plain sight.
Overall my initial impression about Virtuemart is very good, however in my honest opinion I can say that is also a bit messy, somehow hard to grasp for who see it the first time and do not have a great knowledge of Joomla! too.
In case suggestions are welcome, I would enhance the usability harmonizing the methods to configure Virtuemart and would add some more essential lines in the documentation.
E.g. in general to add a link or a text line there are text fields available for many features and features' options, for the feature I was looking for there is no text field to add string or a link, one can do it only going into Joomla's language override and set it there.
While searching for that feature the most of the time I lost was due to the fact that I was seeking 1) something among the shipping options 2) some text field to be filled to have a custom string shown, I could not imagine that a shipping method feature could be found in the pricing section and that there is no text field but just a pop-up tip, which appears only in the old admin panel, telling that one must use a variable in the Joomla! language override system
E.g. The feature is briefly explained with a pop-up tip, and is also described in the documentation, but for a beginner, not expert of Joomla!, is not so clear that a link can be set using html code in the Joomla! language override system, so in the documentation (and maybe even in the pop-up tip) just adding the simple hint that html code can be used into Joomla! override system make it immediately clear and easy for everybody, total newbies included.
E.g. for many text fields/titles it is possible to set a new language variable to be used in the Joomla! language override system, but not all of them, so if reasonably it is not possible to have it all using this method would be of great help to mark those that can use variables and/or those which cannot, in this way, not only newbies but everyone would spare much time while figuring out how to solve simple problems with via the use of this possibility
Hoping that all of this can be helpful for other newbies alike me and looking forward a bright future for Virtuemart
Thank you
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