Ubercart

MattGWS welcome to Ubercart,

You bring up an excellent point, I think we all agree there could be more functionality with the way Ubercart handles the image in regards to the catalog/category.

I like what you are trying to do, I use the Taxonomy Image module for this. It extends the image functionality for the taxonomy to a whole new level.

I wish I knew more PHP I would submit a patch to add some of Taxonomy Image's functionality to Ubercart.

Ok, I'm determined to help tackle this one because Views 2 is destined to take over the world

Using Views to replicate catalog grid listings of categories is no biggie. I've attached the admin screen as well as a screenshot of the view. The screenshot shown is just using the "Buy it now" button, which doesn't give you the quantity field, attributes, etc. but you can swap the "Add to cart form" as a field shown in the view to get all that too. I'm just overriding the default taxonomy_term view to display in a grid, essentially.

Using Taxonomy Image, it's also not too tough to get a category listing with thumbnails (ignore the fact that they're teensy icons, they could be larger images like UC does now just as easily). They then link to their category pages, which goes to the view above.

Where I'm stuck is how to have a drill-down of taxonomy terms in a hierarchical vocabulary. That view of taxonomy images is ALL terms, top level and child items. What we need here is a way to have it only show those at the first level depth first, then you click on one and get the sub-categories. I think once that part is figured out, it also won't be too tough to use views attachments to display multiple views on a page and have your sub-categories show at the top and the items that are in the top level term below. My grasp of arguments is really not that advanced so I'm sure I'm missing something here.

I tried out the summary option for taxonomy as well, but that doesn't give you much flexibility of formatting and you can't put in the taxonomy images. The summary would be great for blocks with category listings though, like the existing UC catalog block.

Any ideas on how to accomplish the nested taxonomy browsing?

I still haven't had the time to devote to this either, but a couple of recent articles on summaries and attachments in Views 2 feel like they would be of help if anyone's tinkering with this...

http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/02/using-display-attachments-p...
http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/02/displaying-hierarchical-con...

Has anyone managed to do this yet?

Would be interested too in how to customize the default catalog table. especially how to add other columns and remove the "add to cart" button.

Any help appreciated.

Best Regards
Sandro

After working around the above ideas, I concluded to the follwing solution concerning Views 2 and Catalog Module (Table view).

1. Create a view "catalog_inner", that shows products from spesific taxonomy term as an argument, in any way you like.

2. Create a theme function, who has the same code from theme_uc_catalog_browse, for example:
function xaris_uc_catalog_browse($tid = 0)

3. Change the spesific "if" code to

if (count($catalog->products)) {
if (count($links)) {
$output .= theme('links', $links, array('class' => 'links inline uc-categories')) ."\n";
}
$output .= $catalog->description;
$output .= views_embed_view('catalog_inner', 'default', $catalog->tid);
}
else {
...

where "catalog_inner" is your view name, and "default" the view page (or "default" if there is no page)

Hi all,

I'm working on a fabric e-commerce site and on the catalog page I'd like to show 5 'promoted/featured' fabrics for each category.

For example, some of my categories are Patterns, Plains and Oilcloth. For each of these I'd like to show 5 fabrics which would be chosen/managed and ordered by my client.

My thoughts on this are:

I'd have to add in some sort of 'promote to catalog' page for each product with weighting so that it can be ordered.
Some how create a view that displays the catalog terms and these 5 chosen products.

It seems like it should be straight forward but I'm unsure how to accomplish it.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gav