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Submitted by f2stop on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 16:13
f2stop
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 Joined: 01/21/2008

I scoured the documentation and can't find an answer to what should be a very basic question. If it's in the documentation, please direct me to it.

I installed Drupal 5.6 and Ubercart 5.x-1.0-beta2. I defined a product class, created a product entry, added an image, set a price. I configured the store links and shopping cart blocks to appear on all pages.

The shopping cart appears as it should, on every page, whether or not I'm logged in. When I'm logged in as admin, I see the Store Admin menu. But when I log out and become an anonymous user, I can't see a store link. I can't figure out how to see the product I'm trying to sell. Obviously, I've missed something.

How do visitors to my site see my products? I plan on restricting my shopping area just a portion of my site. Most of my pages will be informational. I want to display a link to my shopping area, or a specific item in it, on various pages. How do I do that? As I said, if this information is available online, please just point me toward it.

Thanks!
permalink #1 Tue, 01/29/2008 - 16:39
Lyle

Posts: 2244
 Joined: 08/07/2007
AdministratoreLiTe!

The default way to do this in Übercart is with the Catalog module. It's based on Drupal's taxonomy system, so you need to add terms to the Catalog vocabulary before you can add products to it. The catalog module should have created a link in the navigation block that points to the top level of the term hierarchy.

Alternatively, you can create links to views and nodes that display your products.

permalink #2 Mon, 02/11/2008 - 13:20
f2stop
Posts: 14
 Joined: 01/21/2008

Catalog got me on the right track.

I am still struggling with the idea that I need to turn on or activate or define up to four different things in different areas of the Drupal control panel in order to switch on a single feature. I'll get there. Thanks for the help!