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Hello!

I have two very important questions and I hope, you will be able to help me =)

1. I want to sell digital products (packed as .rar). How do I have to configure Ubercart for this and how can I make it possible, that registered users can upload files, too (maybe it would be able that an admin approves the files)? I think it's a very complex feature and I am frightened that it could be not possible o.O

2. I want to show the Images of the files in a slider (I choosed scrollable) and built it into the theme). How do I produce a random products view that I can assign to a region (as a block)?

Thanks for your help, praying there are solutions Eye-wink
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Re: digital products and random product preview

To sell digital products do the following :
1) set up a directory on your server where you will store your digital files. Example "Product_Downloads" or something . . . and put all of
your .rar files in there
2) Log into your site and go to Administer/Store Administration and there should be a place under "Status Messages" where it's asking you for the
name of that directory. (You may have to click on a link)
3) Type the directory name into the field and hit save.
4) If its done right it will display a message stating "The product download directory has been set" or something to that effect.
5) Once that is set up then you can start creating products and linking them up to the corresponding files from that directory that you just linked
up. When you create a product, fill out all of the information i.e. SKU#, Name and all of that and then at the bottom click "Save and Continue".
After that, once it has been saved, at the top of the page click on the "features" tab. There you should see an "Add" button next to the
words "Product Download" or something like that. Click on that "Add" button. Now it's asking you for an SKU number, type in the SKU number of
the product you just created. Below that there is a text box field asking you for the product download file name. Start typing in the name of
the corresponding ditital file that you put into the directory on your server. It should automatically find it and you should be able to click
on it and have it populate that field with the name of the digital file. Then all you have to do is hit save and you are set. You have just
created a product that is linked to a digital download so when your customer purchases the product, they should get an email containing the file
once the order is "completed".

Im not sure how to do the file upload thing yet but I sell tattoo artwork on my sute and thats how I set up my digital products. I use the Acquia slate theme with some customized artwork.

Take care and hope that helps!

Dano

Dano
Tribal Tattoos @ www.DanoTats.com

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Re: Re: digital products and random product preview

Yeah, thank you very much for the help! =) the only thing is this way is too complicated. I need just a input field for registered users which the admin can approve then Eye-wink but maybe I will implement this on my own or it will be implemented already by the developers by time.

Still, I must do the slider, that's the most important for me at the moment. I think I need CCK and the Views module to do this, I downloaded the uc_views module, too. May anybody tell me, how I can generate a block with random Ubercart products and write the html on my own?

Sry, it's my third day with drupal and Ubercart Eye-wink Still greetings
.wired