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[By the way, you don't have to display 6 products on your website (it looks like spam) - just one item with 6 options to choose from. you can hide the remaining 5 products - do not assign them to any category and set them as child products, thanks to which they will automatically inherit most of the parameters from the parent product]

#81

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by VB74 - September 11, 2024, 19:48:36 PM

Perfect, thanks! It's disabled now.

Exactly as Roderyk wrote. You have a free plugin called "Stockable Custom Fields" for this. Each independent product in Virtuemart will correspond to a different language version of the e-book - just like clothes sizes L, XL, XXL - the customer will choose FR, EN, DE
https://breakdesigns.net/extensions/joomla/stockable-custom-fields

Thanks to this plug-in, after paying, the customer will automatically be able to download the appropriately selected version of the product - you will not have to send anything manually, which will be more convenient for you than what you want to do now

By the way, you don't have to display 6 products on your website (it looks like spam) - just one item with 6 options to choose from. you can hide the remaining 5 products - do not assign them to any category and set them as child products, thanks to which they will automatically inherit most of the parameters from the parent product

You mean that the only product displayed in the shop is one of the 6 children's products? (as I did here: https://casa-bandera.com/shop-italian-cookbooks). So in my case English/EPUB. I would have preferred a parent product with a neutral name.

I removed the categories for child products, but they no longer appear in the results in my search bar.

#82

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by ViPeS - September 11, 2024, 18:33:24 PM

I didn't find where to disable "Add to compare"

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#83

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by VB74 - September 11, 2024, 17:29:43 PM

I will try this plugin tomorrow, thanks!

I didn't find where to disable "Add to compare"

#84

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by hazael - September 11, 2024, 16:53:25 PM

the difference is small, but the second option is more convenient to use and can be translated into selected languages. It also has different selection styles (radio, button, select, color, image with flags)

PS.
"Add to Compare" - I would remove it from your site - there is nothing to compare there ;-)

#85

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by VB74 - September 11, 2024, 16:35:56 PM

Thank you very much for your answers.

No problem for trying the "Stockable Custom Fields", but what is the difference with multi-variants custom fields?

I already can select languages and format on the product page, please see her: https://casa-bandera.com/shop-italian-cookbooks/ebook-qs1-english-epub

#86

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by hazael - September 11, 2024, 16:30:27 PM

Exactly as Roderyk wrote. You have a free plugin called "Stockable Custom Fields" for this. Each independent product in Virtuemart will correspond to a different language version of the e-book - just like clothes sizes L, XL, XXL - the customer will choose FR, EN, DE
https://breakdesigns.net/extensions/joomla/stockable-custom-fields

Thanks to this plug-in, after paying, the customer will automatically be able to download the appropriately selected version of the product - you will not have to send anything manually, which will be more convenient for you than what you want to do now

By the way, you don't have to display 6 products on your website (it looks like spam) - just one item with 6 options to choose from. you can hide the remaining 5 products - do not assign them to any category and set them as child products, thanks to which they will automatically inherit most of the parameters from the parent product

#87

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by Roderic - September 11, 2024, 11:50:41 AM

Why not list the same e-book just once and then have the language as a selectable option? I would use Breakdesigns stockable custom fields for that (Free).
This way every e-book with the same content but different language, will be it's own product but it will only be listed once and that will keep things clean.

On the other hand, since it's a digital product, you don't need stock management, so it could also just be a normal custom field, even easier.

#88

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by VB74 - September 11, 2024, 11:41:53 AM

Thanks for your reply.

You're right in a way. The problem is that I plan to make my site and ebooks in 6 or 7 different languages. So potentially 20/30 very similar products.

For a user, this page will become very busy: https://casa-bandera.com/shop-italian-cookbooks/four-seasons-italian-flavours-1

#89

General Questions / Re: Questions about my multi-l...

Last post by hazael - September 11, 2024, 11:04:20 AM

It seems to me that making the language version of an e-book dependent on the language of the website is not a good solution - it is even strange to some extent. For example, I may want to read a website in French, but I will want to buy an e-book in English (e.g. for my friend who wants one).  This solution may reduce sales somewhat.

The Falang component (by faboba.com) will be very helpful and much more convenient than the traditional Joomla solution

#90

General Questions / Questions about my multi-langu...

Last post by VB74 - September 11, 2024, 10:48:42 AM

Hello! 

I've just created my VirtueMart online shop (VM 4.2.18 11050) on my Joomla 5 site.

My site is in English and French.

I'd like to sell my ebook in several languages (English and French) and several different formats (EPUB, PDF, MOBI). So 6 versions in total, so logically 6 products in VirtueMart.

So I created a parent product (English and EPUB) and 5 child products attached in multi-variant mode (the parent and each child have a custom "VM simple download" field containing a different file). This way, customers can click on the buttons (see below) to choose their version : https://casa-bandera.com/shop-italian-cookbooks/four-seasons-italian-flavours-1/ebook-qs1-english-epub

At present, I've created 2 pages (in English and French) for each of the 6 products.
However, in my opinion this is unnecessarily voluminous. Especially if I offer my ebook in many different languages in the future.

So I'd like to:

1. Simplify my store and show only the versions of the ebook in the site language selected by the user. Example: I select "French" as the language on the site, and only the 3 French ebooks are displayed in my store, the 3 English versions don't appear.

2. Avoid the problem of duplicate content (for SEO), especially in very similar product descriptions (because only the language and format change).

3. Have product pages in a single language (the language of the ebook). Example: Ebook in English -> Page in English, no page in French.

4. Be able to switch languages and formats easily. For example: I'm on the English page of the English/PDF ebook -> I click on the "French" and "MOBI" multi-variant buttons -> I'm redirected to the French page of the French/MOBI ebook.




Thank you in advance for your help.