Ubercart

Thanks for all your guys's hard work on these two updates. I'm really looking forward to using Drupal 7, and the fact that Ubercart is ready for it will make my transition that much easier.

As for the Drupal 6 - Ubercart 2.3 update. I'm glad to see that another "box" has been enabled for Ubercart. Thickbox is really dated and Lightbox2 was getting too old for me as well. ColourBox is a nice addition (although I like Prettybox).

Also I noticed that the new 2.3 version is roughly 200k larger. I'm not complaining about the size, but this huge difference makes me wary on upgrading my live sites . Why is the new version so much bigger? Surely it can't all be code changes and additions. Was colourbox integrated into the module? Did someone leave some extra crud in the zip?

That extra size is from the translation files that I decided to leave in this time. I thought that by now if they were in CVS, then people were saying they were good enough to be included. So, if there are problems with the translations there, you can let me know in an issue, or just commit the fixes yourself. Everyone has access to the translation folders of every project.

Wow!
Great work, many thanks!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but is there anything special I need to do to get Colorbox running on 2.3?

I've done this:
- downloaded and enabled the jquery_update and colorbox module
- downloaded colorbox itself from their site and extracted it to sites/all/libraries
- changed the ubercart image widget from lightbox2 to colorbox

But now, clicking on a product image just loads the full image in the browser, with no widget. Is there something I've missed?

Thanks for a great release, by the way! You guys are awesome.

Have you tried Lightbox2 or Thickbox? If all are broken, then it's your setup that's the problem.

Lightbox2 is working fine, I just figured I'd go for something a little prettier.

Thankyou all, for your hard work!
I´ll try Ubercart on the digital sales (download links)

I tested on a clean install of Ubercart 2.3 and found this can happen if you don't install Colorbox correctly - read the Colorbox README.txt for details. The main thing to watch out for is you need the 6.x-2.x version of jQuery Update - NOT the 6.x-1.x version. If you have the 6.x-1.x version, you will see a JavaScript error on your product page which causes the Colorbox script to fail. You will have to download the 6.x-2.x version of jQuery Update then run update.php. Also, be sure to download and install the Colorbox plugin as described in the README. If you do all that then Colorbox behaves as expected.

I've reported issues w/ jQuery Update 6.x-1.1 for other stuff too and would have to recommend 6.x-2.0-alpha1 for any setup.

Ah, I was using JQuery update 1.1, not 2.0-alpha. That fixed the problem, and Colorbox is now working wonderfully!

Thanks again for a great release!

Thank you evertyhing, what you did... I like Ubercart.

But I have to know something. The product export / import is not was really good in the ubercart 2. I mean I have 150-200 product in the webshop, and I have to change every week a 30-50 prices and every day the stock level... I can't import from a excel or xml file. I was waiting this Ubercart 3, maybe this version give me this feature, but I can't see anything like this in the Road map.
I would like to ask, I missed something, or it's coming in the 3th or 4th version?
I have to build webshops sometimes, and this is my only problem with the drupal/ubercart system.

@attishu have you looked into node import module?

Or more specifically the node_import extensions for ubercart.

http://www.ubercart.org/project/node_import_uc_stock

I do agree with you though, Ubercart is pretty tedious if you need to add many products a day. Hopefully it's something that can be improved by someone in the future.

"But at this point we are basically waiting on Drupal 7 to reach beta and the be released. We will continue to implement these small features until Drupal 7 reaches Beta (rumored to be in 2-4 weeks), and then proceed in lock step with Drupal through beta to a stable release."

Now I'm *basically waiting* for Ubercart to reach beta so I can start porting the modules I have contributed to your ecosystem. Any predictions?

Hi, I'm really confused about the product import issue with Ubercart 3. I am creating a new e-commerce website, and decided to go with Drupal 7 since it is so close to being ready, and I don't really have a deadline on getting my site live. I am going to be using a dropshipper that has a couple of thousand items available for my customers. I would like to import from the .cvs files that they have given me, but I have no idea how to go about doing that. I looked into the node_import option, but from what I understand, ubercart 3 is handling products differently, so I don't know what to do.

I am fairly new to drupal. I run 2 drupal 6 sites, one that is just content, and another that is using organic groups. I have never made an e-commerce site before, so I am starting at the very beginning. This is why I decided to go with Drupal 7 since we are all going to be learning it together, and it gives me a chance to learn drupal 7 before I have to upgrade my other 2 sites. Any advice would be wonderful. Thanks!

@jan.c.harlan you're running cutting edge stuff, so expect your fingers to get cut

Node_Import work, but very poorly (very basic product fields) for Drupal 6.x and Ubercart 2.x . I wouldn't expect this module to be done, or even start for Ubercart 3.0 yet. I could be wrong, but I very doubt it.

You're getting into mildly difficult stuff and if you don't plan on learning and doing this work yourself, you could have someone pay to upgrade the module for you. Otherwise until someone else decides to move it forward, you are on your own.

You could use Ubercart 2.x and save yourself some grief. I wouldn't expect D7/UC3 to be stable for another 6 months and that's being very generous.

PS, if you're using node_import and Ubercart for 2.x ...you'll have to find the thread which adds specific ubercart modules for node_import. I wrote ones for uc_file and others have written improvements for uc_attribute and uc_stock. They all work fairly well providing you can format your CSV in the correct format.

I've been patiently waiting too. Drupal 7.0-rc1 will be released in under two weeks, but the lack of recent development on Ubercart, the ever increasing number of issues at d.o and no response to this thread or http://drupal.org/node/968118 is starting to make me think about forking Ubercart myself for D7, or using Drupal Commerce instead.

I'm usually someone who's a fairly early adopter, but because I make sites for clients and not for fun, I have to wait until things are fairly stable to begin putting my clients on something new.

I have zero faith in Drupal to be finished "on time" since there is no release date. Drupal 7 has been coming out in "two weeks" for like a year now. I'm fine with this to a certain point, but I'm going to wait until they finish bike shedding and put something out that's "good enough" before I start working with it.

Every version of Drupal 7 I've installed to date and played around with, hasn't left me with much confidence to start building sites with it. Contrib is even worse. I'm waiting for RC1 to give it another run.