I was told to upload/activate the VIEWS modules so I could mess with my layout in my shop. I'd like to organize a page by brand headers.
How/where do I upload/activate these modules and what are their exact names?
Thanks!
Cassandra
Fri, 10/05/2007 - 14:50
Re: Uploading/Activating Modules
Upload the module to the modules folder
Then in Drupal go to Admin -> Modules and enable it
Re: Re: Uploading/Activating Modules
From my understanding, Cassandra needs a little more step-by-step advice. I don't have time to go through it all, but you first have to get the module here:
http://drupal.org/project/views
You'll need some program that will let you unzip the file and upload it to your Drupal install's sites/all/modules directory. Once you have it there, you have to enable it at http://www.example.com/admin/build/menus.
This isn't the easiest module to use, though...
Hi Ryan -
Thank you for the help. HA! I like how you worded that, "needs a little more step-by-step advice". Very kindly put. LOL.
I would like to try the views module, even though it might be hard... my site desperately needs it!
In terms of an 'unzip' program - are you referring to something like an FTP client? Or is that something different.
Cass~
Re: Hi Ryan -
You will need SSH (secure shell access) to untar the files properly. If you unzip them on your hard drive and then upload them with FTP you stand a small chance of corrupting them, and then they will not work. PM me and we can discuss, if you like.
Cass, try this first:
A tutorial:
Re: Cass, try this first:
SSH rules! My working life would be much more painful without it.
another thing
Will this give me the ability to control what order my products appear in? Or does any one know how to do this? Right now it's basically the order they're entered in, and that's all the control over their order I have. This isn't ideal.
Thanks.
Re: another thing
With alpha 7e, you can affect the order of products in the catalog by changing the "List order" field in the edit form. This is a global ordering, so listing all of your products at once might be a little messy. But if your customers only see the catalog, then you can just make the ordering based on what they see there.