[SOLVED] Products do not display in the front page

[lveronese]

All, this is literally driving me crazy!

I am starting from scratch a new Joomla 3.3.6 + Virtuemart 3.0.2 installation. I'm using italian and english (GB) as languages.
After the initial configuration of the directories, a sample vendor and a sample shop, I create just 1 sample product, then I configure the home page of the website with the Virtuemart 3 front page.

I would expect to se the just configured product in the home page but... I see nothing!

I really don't understand what I am missing, so I am looking for some clues: please help me!

I have read somewhere a possible cause could the language of the VM3 deployment and the language of the product, but to me they are ok, I mean there is nothing special to do...

Another possible issue is that my provider deployed MySQL v6.6, but I don't know if this is meaningful.

Thanks in advance for any possible hint
Cheers
Luciano

[bluezeyes]

Hi,
some questions:

1. Have you published your product?
2. Have you assigned a product category to the product?
if not:
3. Have you checked the VM option to "Show uncategorised child products in search results and modules" in Configuration->Shopfront?
4. Have you enabled at least "Show latest products" in Configuration->Templates->Virtuemart Home Page Settings?

Be sure that you save / publish your changed setting

Kind regards,

bluezeyes

[GJC Web Design]

I would expect to se the just configured product in the home page but... I see nothing!

expect to see it where exactly?  the home page doesn't show individual products unless they happen to "qualify" to show in the 3 areas, latest, top or featured.
if you make a menu to the category does it show?

[lveronese]

Thank you bluezeyez, not it works!
It was one of the things you asked me to check and specifically the assignment of categories.
Honestly I did not remembered it was mandatory to assign a category to a product, but that's it, now I see all the products.
Thanks a lot for hints

Cheers
Luciano

P.S for GJC: I expected to see something in the site home page which I had configured to show the VM front page. So I expected to see populated the "latest" area which actually happened as soon as I assigned a category to a product. Thanks!

[GJC Web Design]

there is a setting in the VM admin -> Show uncategorised child products in search results and modules

did u try that - as I said - will show in the frontpage modules ONLY if it passes all the conditions