Manufacturer details page

Hello,
in the virtuemart manufacturer details page (see http://tiendanueva.negre.es/tienda-onli ... ition.html) I want to replace the "view all manufacturer products" link with the products of the manufacturer without having to go to another page.
I view the manufacturer default.php code and I find that

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<a title="<?php echo $manufacturer->mf_name; ?>" href="<?php echo $manufacturerURL; ?>"><?php echo $manufacturerImage;?></a>
            
               <a title="<?php echo $manufacturer->mf_name; ?>" href="<?php echo $manufacturerURL; ?>"><?php echo $manufacturer->mf_name; ?></a>

refers to that page but please let me know how to replace that link with the manufacturer products instead!
I have searched in the virtuemart official forum and didn't found the solution!

Thanks in advance,
Kind regards,
Yo

I am little confused

If the link is showing "view all products from manufacturer" isn't that the same as "show all products from that manufacturer", basically you want that link to show that manufacturers products, right ?

Hi Norman,
Sorry for my bad explanation...
What I need is instead of the link delete the link and display in the manufacturer page details the products direcly without having to go another page.

Please let me know if I explained wrong.

Kind Regards,
Yo

So basically in Manufacturer page you want to display products which belongs to that manufacturer. I am not sure if this is possible. I can take a look but it might take sometime.

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You are right, Norman, when you have time, could you please take a look if we can do that?
I will email you with the post details and access for you to have a look.

Thank you very much,
Kind Regards,

Yo

@yoligrana,

Please backup your site as this mod is now ready

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Hi Norman,
can I use this mod you are talking about?please let me know how it works.

thanks,

@yoligrana,

Please backup your site as this mod is now ready

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Hi Norman,
do you have any news about this?
Please let me know.
Thanks.

I am just preparing files, last checks

Thank you!!
Will it be a module with the manufacturer products?
Please let me know (email) when its ready!!

Thanks again,
kind regards,

No it won't be a module, it's modified category template which displays products and manufacturers if you are viewing manufacturer and normal category layout when on category view.

Copy attached files overwriting your current ones.
If you want to create direct links first create a normal menu to Manufacturer Default Layout.
Then for each manufacturer create a menu type "external url" and add the link manually from above.

I left the text "View all First Products " in there in case you want to change it to " Currently showing all products for this manufacturer".

You can change that in
File: /language/en-GB/en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini
Line: 329

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COM_VIRTUEMART_PRODUCT_FROM_MF="View all %s Products "


To

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COM_VIRTUEMART_PRODUCT_FROM_MF="Currently showing all products for this manufacturer"


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Norman,
Absolutely Awesome!!!!!
You did it!
This post should be a post-it!
Would it be applicable to other virtuemart templates?

Thank you very much! I am very with this!

No problem at all, yes it should work with other templates, might need adjusting in css in case other templates use different css class.

Also just make sure each manufacturer have at least one product otherwise it won't show manufacturer details or if you don't want to add any manufacturer products for some manufacturers you can use default manufacturer details menu type which will show old style manufacturer page.

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Hi Norman, you rock!

I am in need of improve my product details page as I see a little bit empty now, see an example of my actual page http://tiendanueva.negre.es/tienda-onli ... etail.html
I've been thinking in the implementation of the K2Mart addon. Is a component that fusions virtuemart and k2 to offer a more complete product details (description,tags,custom fields,etc.).
There is a demo available to see the features, see http://www.joomlaworks.net/extensions/c ... ium/k2mart

I need to know if it will be compatible with our storebox template.
And also if you reccomend the component to improve the product details page.
What do you think of it? It is a good solution to offer the client product details, fields,improvements?

Thank you in advance,
Kind Regards.

Although I haven't tried this template with K-Store but I believe one user tried to use K-Store with Storebox and it didn't work.

Regarding product layout you can accomplish that with editing products page layout and or arranging your modules in a better way as currently your page is empty.

Perhaps use slightly larger product images, get rid off top module and use it just after the product with nsp showing other products.

Another option would be to use manufacturers image logos in news show pro in a sliding left right animation on top of contact details etc. This way your page won't be long as currently manufacturers module is taking too much space.

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Although I haven't tried this template with K-Store but I believe one user tried to use K-Store with Storebox and it didn't work.

Regarding product layout you can accomplish that with editing products page layout and or arranging your modules in a better way as currently your page is empty.

Perhaps use slightly larger product images, get rid off top module and use it just after the product with nsp showing other products.

Another option would be to use manufacturers image logos in news show pro in a sliding left right animation on top of contact details etc. This way your page won't be long as currently manufacturers module is taking too much space.

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Hi Norman and thank you for the tips:)
The fact is I need a more improved item page with the following:
see http://www.domesticoshop.com/marcas/muu ... rvers.html
I need that kind of product details page.
It will include delivery time, manufacturer, etc.
Do you think we can get this with virtuemart and a little bit of css?

Would you be interested Norman in doing that task for my page?

Thank you very much in advance,
Kind regards,

Hi yoligrana,

I believe it is possible, can you please write down the fields you require and I ll take a look.

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Thank you very much Norman,

the fields I need are the following no special order requiered:

- short description with a read more if possible
this example ( http://www.domesticoshop.com/marcas/muu ... rvers.html ) uses a more info javascript with full description.

- custom fields like
Brand
From
Year of Design (don't really know if we can create them with virtuemart).

- View more products from (manufacturer small logo) that brings to manufacturer products page.

- display price like now but without tax amount, only price and "21% IVA incl" without 25.20€ amount. This is displayed in module and products page, I don't like it at all.

Let me know as I really need this features if you Norman or the team can adjust the product page, I would be eternally grateful! If you need an email containing the tasks, I will be glad to prepare it.

Thank you very much in advance,
Kind regards.

No problem, I ll try to finish it by Monday or Tuesday as I am away from my server for the weekend.

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Thank you very much Norman, I can't wait!
I sent you the email with description, anything you need please let me know!

Kind regards,

Hi yoligrana,

Field name "Brand" is this a new custom field or is this manufacturer brand.

Let me know, see you around...

Hi yoligrana,

Field name "Brand" is this a new custom field or is this manufacturer brand.

Let me know, see you around...

Brand will be the manufacturer, thank you!
Please let me know if you need anything regarding this!

See you around,

Hi Yolingrana,

This is nearly finished. I need to know how much description you would be writing so I can adjust its position.

Such as short description with not too much full description on right side of image under custom fields or
short description with full description under the image full width.

Let me know, see you around...

Please check your product page Mega Bulb for example of what is changed.
If you are happy with it let me know so I can list of changes in case you need to update template files.

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Hi Norman,
thank you very much again for the changes and the updates.
It is possible to display the product price next to the product title?
I would also need the product description under product title and then display the custom fields.
Is it possible?
I tried to look at the default.php into productdetails but I am not good at php so I prefer no to change it...
Please let me know!

Thank you very much.
Kind Regards,

Done, please check your product page.

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Thank you Norman!
I would like to display the manufacturer logo next to the manufacturer name if is possible?example:
http://www.domesticoshop.com/marcas/muu ... rvers.html

Thank you very much!

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If you mean next to custom fields with manufacturer it was next to it

Looks like you have changed css around slightly which pushed it down...

Check following screenshot. If this is ok I ll do it like that if not let me know.

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c019xsw70

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Hi Norman!
I would like to display manufacturer name+logo under custom fields
I think the manufacturer name and logo will have more space
like: http://www.domesticoshop.com/marcas/muu ... rvers.html where Muuto is the manufacturer.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

When on product page the sidebar goes down!
Please help?
What causes this?
Please let me know!

Kind regards,
Yo

That is because you have disabled reviews / rating which broke its layout. Also you are still making changes to your product page.

In this case I will wait until you are finished making changes so I won't have to redo / fix layout changes.

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You are right Norman, now I have enabled the review/rating and sidebar is back to normal position.
But I don't want comments or reviews/ratings, how can it be disabled?

Yes, I adjust some css, but I'm not good at php although I would like to learn the language!
That is my next chapter in my lige, to learn php!

What I want is:
the manufacturer logo next to the And Tradition text(under product title). I've tried but no luck.

Please Let me know!

Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,

Done please check. Regarding ratings, I need to check js files and remove the part where it creates tabs. So this have to wait for later on.

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Thank you very much Norman! You and Gavick Rock!

About the product page details, I need just a mod, sorry for that, but finally the manufacturer link+logo has to be above the "ask about this product" feature (below product custom fields) without top margin. I tried again to modify css but block 2 doesn't upload at the time block 1 does. Can be both on a same div to avoid one moves and the other not?

That would be awesome!

Thanks for the great work you develop Norman.
Kind Regards,
Yo

I have to redo this mod as there are open tags all over the place.

Please do not make any changes until I finish this.

I ll keep you updated when it is finish.

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Please check now and hopefully this is finished

Awesome Norman, you did it! Thank you very much!

I wanted to create two divs: one for the fields title and the other one for the value
see "procedencia" as title and "dinamarca" as value.
This way the values will be displayed ordered (same margin, like a column).

I love the way manufacturer looks like! You did an awesome work Norman,
Thanks a lot again!

Please let me know about the column of the values when you have a couple of minutes, I tried to change it by floating left and giving a width but cannot undertand why isn't working?
I promise not to touch php and css files until you confirm its solved!

Kind regards,

You can use following css to add width to labels column which will push field values and aligned them equally.

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.pblock1 .product-fields-title { width:30%;}


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Hey, awesome!
How does it works? only with a width:30% ?
does it align equal by giving a width to the block automatically?
I am surprised!

Thank you!
Will it works for the manufacturer title "and tradition"?http://tiendanueva.negre.es/iluminacion/lamparas-de-suspension/mega-bulb-detail.html

Well If "A" has 30% width then "B" starts after this 30% so technically aligns column : )

I can see you have added it already. See you around...