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Started by 2cool, October 27, 2021, 17:29:33 PM

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2cool

I want to build a new site with 1000 articles.
Each article has title, short descr, price, sku, ean

But I want to use special fields to add style info, color, material, usage, etc

This to have additional article info to add after product discription
And also to use these fields for customers to filter.

Can this be done in VM  3.8.8 core or are plugins necessary?
Running Joomla 3.10.3

Regards,
Pas


Jörgen

From what I can tell this would be done with standard custom fields.

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi
Joomla 3.9.18
Virtuemart 3.4.x
Olympiantheme Hera (customized)
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2cool

#2
Thanks,
For color and material it works fine.
But for style I can't figure out how to configure....
This needs to be a title and description for each style.
I tried custom fields 'textarea' and editor' using semicolon betweeen each style description. But can't select the different styles.
Would be nice to have a custom field to select the right style which adds the right style title and description.

Any suggestions.

Regards,
Pas


2cool


2cool

Unfortunately not possible....

Guess it should be possible with plain text area.
Only issue I have, can't create a custom field 'style' and add texts (paragraphs) separated by semicolon...
Does anyone know how this can be modified? is it character restricted maybe...

Regards,
Pas

pinochico

QuoteUnfortunately not possible....

I'm sorry, maybe you're taking the wrong steps.

We use these extensions and your additional field and filtering requirements work great :)
https://www.kolo-park.cz/obchod/kola-a-elektrokola
www.minijoomla.org  - new portal for Joomla!, Virtuemart and other extensions
XML Easy Feeder - feeds for FB, GMC,.. from products, categories, orders, users, articles, acymailing subscribers and database table
Virtuemart Email Manager - customs email templates
Import products for Virtuemart - from CSV and XML
Rich Snippets - Google Structured Data
VirtueMart Products Extended - Slider with products, show Others bought, Products by CF ID and others filtering products

Jörgen

Show us an example (with images), I guess this would be possible to do with standard custom fields too.

Jörgen
Joomla 3.9.18
Virtuemart 3.4.x
Olympiantheme Hera (customized)
This reflects current status when viewing old post.

pinochico

QuoteShow us an example (with images), I guess this would be possible to do with standard custom fields too.

to Jörgen:
But modul filtering?
If I use filtering modul from CF, then better for me use CF custom fields :)
www.minijoomla.org  - new portal for Joomla!, Virtuemart and other extensions
XML Easy Feeder - feeds for FB, GMC,.. from products, categories, orders, users, articles, acymailing subscribers and database table
Virtuemart Email Manager - customs email templates
Import products for Virtuemart - from CSV and XML
Rich Snippets - Google Structured Data
VirtueMart Products Extended - Slider with products, show Others bought, Products by CF ID and others filtering products

Jörgen

He sais he has no truoble filtering.

He has trouble creating a custom item with some styling text, he does not tell us how this should look.

Filtering can then always be done with CF.

Jörgen

Joomla 3.9.18
Virtuemart 3.4.x
Olympiantheme Hera (customized)
This reflects current status when viewing old post.

2cool

You mean custom fields for all?

Attached a quick sketch of the question...

Thanks,
Pas

2cool

Right now it seems to work as I added this locally to my vm custom field.
Selecting this in custom fields looks a bit weird but works.
Only filter is not visible yet.

Regards,
Pas

pinochico

QuoteAnd also to use these fields for customers to filter.

Why do you setup textarea custom field, if you want filtering them?
I don't understand :)

www.minijoomla.org  - new portal for Joomla!, Virtuemart and other extensions
XML Easy Feeder - feeds for FB, GMC,.. from products, categories, orders, users, articles, acymailing subscribers and database table
Virtuemart Email Manager - customs email templates
Import products for Virtuemart - from CSV and XML
Rich Snippets - Google Structured Data
VirtueMart Products Extended - Slider with products, show Others bought, Products by CF ID and others filtering products

2cool

Hi pinochico,
This way i'm more flexible creating product descriptions (have relevant content)
Also when new trends occur it's possible to modify easier.
For customers it's nice and easy to choose/filter on their desired style.

Right now filter works but shows full text of custom fields.
Would be nice to only show title instead.

Regards,
Pas

pinochico

QuoteWould be nice to have a custom field to select the right style which adds the right style title and description.

Of course
define value as name of type of style - for custom field "Style" define value "Standard"
define module with name Standard, .... (all values from customfiled) and maybe better setup right position from position of custom field
create override for template productdetail nad customfield
load module with title if value of custom filed is the same

But is my way :)
www.minijoomla.org  - new portal for Joomla!, Virtuemart and other extensions
XML Easy Feeder - feeds for FB, GMC,.. from products, categories, orders, users, articles, acymailing subscribers and database table
Virtuemart Email Manager - customs email templates
Import products for Virtuemart - from CSV and XML
Rich Snippets - Google Structured Data
VirtueMart Products Extended - Slider with products, show Others bought, Products by CF ID and others filtering products