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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => General Questions => Topic started by: kiwigal on January 18, 2012, 03:52:44 AM

Title: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: kiwigal on January 18, 2012, 03:52:44 AM
Hi there,

I have a site that is running VM 2.  However can't seem to get the thing live due to the issues.  Had 1.9 operating great, and have had not ever encountered this problem with VM until now.

I'm stumped, I've tried everything including reuploading the original views/category/categories default.php.

My problem is that there are products in VM you can see in the administrator, but on the frontend, it comes up with a blank page.  There are 3 products in one category and it only shows one.

I can't see to make it change.  Also the stock level bar I am wanting to remove also.

Can anyone assist ?

Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: sylviarose on January 20, 2012, 23:47:56 PM
I am having the same problem.  My products don't show up no matter what I do. I have used Virtuemart for years and never had this happen?
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: mozgras on February 27, 2012, 20:09:46 PM
Me too...Anyone??
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: PRO on February 27, 2012, 20:38:10 PM
are the assigned to all shopper groups? default and anonomous?


look in each product.

And::are you using multi-language
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: ZX81 on February 27, 2012, 21:04:58 PM
Joomla 2.5.1/VM2.0.2

I upgraded on localhost yesterday and had a similar problem. I had 6 products in one category but the first one wouldn't show up at all even though you could see in the backend. I ended up cloning it and deleting the one that didn't show up. Then my new cloned product (with the same SKU as the original) appeared in the frontend.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: Milbo on February 27, 2012, 21:47:42 PM
Hmm I would like to see that via skype or so,.. I mean the shop config and maybe the database to understand the problem.

Maybe it is simular to the unpublished images, that a fix in 2.0.2 is changing something we do not understand atm.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: PRO on February 28, 2012, 15:35:03 PM
I had products disappear in one the latest releases.

IT as because they were assigned to shopper groups.

I went into those products, and UN-assigned them to shopper groups and they appeared.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: ZX81 on February 28, 2012, 23:37:33 PM
Banquet Tables Pro, you are right! At least for me this was the problem. I checked my live site which is still on 2.0.0 and that product was assigned to shopper group 'Default'. all my other products just had 'Select Some Options'. Further more, if I select 'Default' in 2.0.2 then it disappears and I can make it reappear by unassigning the group.

What does this mean? Why isn't this a problem for my live site?

Can you point me somewhere that explains how shopper groups work - it would be good to know.

Thank you!
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: Milbo on February 29, 2012, 00:44:25 AM
The shoppergroups in the product edit define which shoppergroups are able to view it. Therefore to buy and so on. Leave it empty for the normal use.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: tobisagt on March 04, 2012, 12:30:58 PM
I have a similar problem!

My products dont show up only in category view! Product Details works fine. I dont use shoppergroups. The field is empty. Any help?

I use VM2.0.2 and Joomla 2.5
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: bolonia on March 04, 2012, 13:59:22 PM
Make sure you entered product_in_stock value in product admin page under Status tab.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: tobisagt on March 04, 2012, 14:08:56 PM
Quote from: bolonia on March 04, 2012, 13:59:22 PM
Make sure you entered product_in_stock value in product admin page under Status tab.

All my products already have stock level.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: sveibern on March 06, 2012, 22:15:50 PM
I have the same problem, and I am really stuck. I have tried shopper groups and stock level, but it's not helping.
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: corymp on March 07, 2012, 00:00:53 AM
In VM Configuration, make sure you don't have products sorted by Creation date. That happened to me. It may or may not be the problem
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: tobisagt on March 07, 2012, 00:06:04 AM
Quote from: corymp on March 07, 2012, 00:00:53 AM
In VM Configuration, make sure you don't have products sorted by Creation date. That happened to me. It may or may not be the problem

That was the BUG!!!! Thank you very much...

Pls VM Team fix this in next release! Maybe there is a bugfix already for that? I dont want to miss this featreu... :(
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: corymp on March 07, 2012, 00:32:21 AM
Glad to help :)
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: sveibern on March 07, 2012, 09:00:23 AM
Quote from: corymp on March 07, 2012, 00:00:53 AM
In VM Configuration, make sure you don't have products sorted by Creation date. That happened to me. It may or may not be the problem

That solved my problem! Thanks a lot! Right now I think I love you  :)
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: partswench on March 09, 2012, 06:51:38 AM
Tried all of the solutions in the previous posts and I still have no product pages,  anyone else have a miracle out there
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: tkgraphics on March 09, 2012, 12:36:28 PM
Quote from: corymp on March 07, 2012, 00:00:53 AM
In VM Configuration, make sure you don't have products sorted by Creation date. That happened to me. It may or may not be the problem

Also fixed my site! THANKS ! :D
Title: Re: Products have disappeared, not showing - dumbfounded!
Post by: Hilux on March 13, 2012, 12:04:25 PM
Thank You Very MUCH!

Removing the shopper groups after the upgrade to 2.0.3b solved the issue.