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How to show category siblings?
I have a Magento based website.
In my product page I need to show related categories regarding the category the product fall into.
For example suppose the category structure
A- has three child ...
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Magento Dashboard Displaying Different figure in lifetime sales and revenue, is that usual process or having some problem? [duplicate]
My Magento Site's Dashboard Displaying Different figure in lifetime sales and revenue, is that usual process or it has some problem?
I have no idea whether it has a problem or it is the usual thing ...
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How to add CSV Import/Export Functionality
I have created custom gallery extension but I need to implement an import and export or gallery data in the CSV Format.
I did too much research but couldn't find any useful link to find solution so ...
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Adding cart error to prevent going into the checkout
i have been working trying to create an edit order system where when an order is bellow a given state the customer can edit the order
now i have everything working by adding a reorder like link which ...
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Attrbributes Sets & Attributes: Non-Technical Overview/Logic
I work on the 'business' side of Magento (i.e. I'm not a developer). I'm looking to get a better understanding of the theory behind Attributes & Attribute Sets.
My goal: Come up with a few rules ...
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Is there any known way to create a cart item that doesn't exist as a product?
I'm going to be receiving product data from multiple 3rd-party sources in a common format.
Generally, I've seen this issue handled by either creating a product for each incoming item in the user's ...
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Inventory Management solution integrated with Magento
What solution do you guys use/recommend for Inventory Management:
Purchase Orders
Receive Goods (GRN)
Track Stock movements (multiple locations, transfers, consumption)
Ship Goods (Delivery Note)
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Select more than one item in layered navigation (multiple select/checkboxes)
How do you convert the standard layered navigation to use checkboxes or multiple select inputs for attributes of type dropdown or multiselect?
For example if a user selects blue and red for the ...
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Show 404 Page When Route isn't found?
When I enter a malformed product view URL, or something similar where the URL is correct but can't be handled (invalid ID for example) Magento sends me to the "CMS No Route Page" in Configuration > ...
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how to add one more attribute to select which is a custom attribute in product listing
I have a custom attribute added to my catalog.its is a select box
While listing catalog i want to show it filtered by that attribute.
In my mage/adminhtml/block/catalog/product/grid.php i have ...
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Dashboard's Lifetime Sales And Total Order Revenue are displaying different values ? Any Solutions?
I have a problem with dashboard's Lifetime Sales and Revenue displays different figure.
i have tried displayed lifetime sales by following code:
Mage::getResourceModel('reports/order_collection')-&...
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Magento Grouped Products With Tier Pricing
I've created a group product with two simple products.Each simple product has tier pricing.For example,
Simple product -1: tier pricing : Qty Price
2 100
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Magento display tiered pricing for each product on cart page
I am having an issue getting the tierPriceHtml to display for each item on the cart page.
This is what I have inside checkout/cart/item/default.phtml:
$custom = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->...
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Multidimensional Arrays in Magento WSDL file (WSI compliant)
Have been working to get an API call working to edit an order via API, and remove items or quantity from a current order and save as a new order.
My issue is with passed an array of items & qty's ...
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How to use different hosting account for one magento engine with several webstores?
I have a task to create upto ten different webstores with general admin panel. Each webstore has own account and own prices. But catalog and product are almost the same.
If I would use one server, it ...
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Speeding up magento backend (now slow)
We are updating and changing our site, so we do a lot of config in the backend
But the backend is so incredibly slow (we have APC for both OPCODE and CACHE)
Is there a way to speed up the backend ...
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The way to renovate Mage site (live -> develop -> live)
we have some live sites since Mage 1.4 and are now @ 1.7
We want to upgrade/renovate the site by adding new modules, removing old, and changing the theme + CSS. Now I have always been wondering what ...
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In my magento store Lifetime sales and total order revenue are different? [duplicate]
My magento store running from 2 years But on my magento store dashbord
Lifetime sales
and
total order revenue
which is set for 2ytd is display different?
anyone have any good solution for ...
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Adding Color attribute option in Magento Admin
How can I add extra Color attribute options ( blue, black , etc) which are not already show in Magento admin when adding configureable / simple products..
I did it a few months ago, it was some ...
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Admin Area Custom Configuration
I followed the tutorial on this page
http://www.johannreinke.com/en/2012/01/30/add-custom-settings-in-magento-admin-panel/
While I was able to get the source code provided to work without a problem,...
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Can't find callbackFunction
I've been looking all over the place and I can't find what this is:
updateCallback : function(elm, status) {
if (typeof elm.callbackFunction != 'undefined') {
eval(elm.callbackFunction+'(\...
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CRUD Module - Add Preview Link to Edit View of Uploaded Media
I have created a module to upload PDFs, its a basic CRUD module.
My question is, how can I add a link to the Edit view so that the user can preview the media that is attached to the row being edited?...
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LEMP Stack Suggestions for a 10k + Item Magento Community Install
I operate a Magento Community install that currently contains 30k SKUs (6k configurable with 24k variants).
We are having an ongoing issue with pervasive CPU overloads that result in MYSQL ...
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Paypal Hosted Solution (Iframe) - Wrong Language
I have found out this bug for Paypal HHS.
If the mercant location is set to italian, in the checkout page I have an Iframe hosted by paypal.
The issue is that the iframe come out always in Italia ...
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FishPig Attribute Splash Pages Extension Bugs [closed]
I'm evaluating the FishPig Attribute Splash Pages extension for a client, and I've run into a few bugs. I've got support requests into the extension vendor, but since it's a free extension I figured ...
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XAMPP and Magento directory Selector problems
Ok I have an annoying issue. I have some code in a custom helper module that i use to resize images and save a cached copy. Now this does not work. However if i go into mage.php and change the ...
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Magento CE 1.5 creating a new var directory [closed]
In a Magento CE 1.5 installation Magento sometimes creates new var directories (var1, var2).
As far as I can see Magento continues to work fine and nothing is wrong with the old directories but it'd ...
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How to send a customer comment with shipping method in magento checkout?
I need to send a customer comment, with selected magento shipping method. How can I do that.
I made a module to override available.phtml file, where shipping methods are listed out. I can put a ...
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How best can I structure product configuration for SEO?
We have concerns over the structure of our store - Products and categories - In terms of SEO and findability of products.
Say you have a configurable product (T-shirt) with 3 configurations (Colour, ...
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How do I list all adresses changed after a certain date in a multi call?
I'm using the magento soap v1 api, and I wish to get all the adresses changed after a certain datetime.
I’m using php to setup the connection and fetch the data.
I have the following users to play ...
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how does magento check if a configure/grouped product is out of stock in the catalog/search
in the setup of magento i have i have set backorders to be on but i only needed them on so that out of stock items could be added to the cart from an order editor
i've been making changes to magento ...
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Make File Upload Not Required On Edit
I have created a module that is more or less a CRUD app. One of the fields is for a file to be uploaded. When I edit one of the rows, it is requiring me to re-upload the file to save the edit.
Is ...
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Help with adding a custom option type value field
I'm extending the catalog_product_option_type_value database. I created my own table, my_catalog_product_option_type_value and it has a reference to the option_type_id. I have that working, and my ...
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Moving the category toolbar out of product/list
I'm trying to move the toolbar that shows the sorting options and the pager out of the product list so I can bundle it with the breadcrumbs and the category name.
I found this site that worked for ...
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Tax collection at source and minimum taxable amount
I am doing research on the implementation of certain tax rules specific for Argentina.
A little context:
There are basically 2 VAT rules depending on the product type: 21% and 10.5%, they are ...
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Magento Credit memo before invoice captured
The client I am working with has a requirement that they are able to give credit memos before either full or partial capture of an invoice (i.e. money is authorized but not paid).
The idea being that ...
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how to change customer login page into 2 column page
I am using Facebook connect and like plugin
On Login or Create an Account page, i want two columns page. currently its one column
<reference name="root">
<action method="...
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Observing order state change
It seems there is no order state event by default, so how do you usually go about observing order state change?
There are two possibilities I see:
a) Overwrite the sales/order model to create your ...
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create bundle order programmatically
I have this code: http://pastebin.com/iFwyKM7G
Inside an event-observer class which executes after the customer registered. It creates an order automatically and it works for simple products. ...
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Magento 1.7 Directory Separator returning wrong seperator
I'm trying to get a function working to re size any image using a custom module and helper class. For the record I'm running this on a local XAMPP server.
If I pass a image url and a destination url ...
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soap api v1 way to request customer_adress.list for all customers who updated after xxx date
Is there a way to retrieve the entire list of adresses that have changed after a given datetime?
It now fails because it wishes an user id.
I'd hate have to loop through all the adresses(which are ...
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last_update flag of user data also changed when user changes address details?
I'm accessing the magento store via v1 soap api.
User details have a last_update flag that tells me when the last change has been.
Does anyone here know if this flag also changes if a user changes ...
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Magento Certification: Is it worth it? [closed]
How many people on here are Magento certified?
What was your experience with the process? Since becoming certified, do you believe your certification has provided any benefits to your work or career?...
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Creating a custom helper class in module
I've made a new module called test_helper and I want to create a helper class in this module so that I can add custom functions to be called all over my site.
I can't however seem to find any ...
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How to Set Product attribute to 'Use Default' by SQL
I would like to set 'Name' and 'Description' attribute to Use Default for a couple of store views.
Like I have those store views.
Eng CA
Eng USA
Fra
Spa
So I would like to set globally for all ...
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1.7 displaying products placed in a root category
I've built a new block that displays products placed in a specific category (chosen via ID) and renders them out with some fancy jQuery. Now to test this I passed a id of 17, a category with plenty of ...
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500-ERROR when trying to download custom option file
I want to add the custom option to upload files so my clients can add pictures or files to their respective products. This is working fine.
When I try to retrieve the files, this becomes an issue and ...
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Dynamically changing the shipping carrier name
I have a custom shipping carrier that allows customers to specify a delivery date. Its config.xml defines method name as
<default>
<carriers>
<deliverybydate>
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How to create next and previous product links?
Question speaks for it self.
I found 2 blog posts about it. Should I create my own helper class like Here or do it right in view.phtml like here. Which would be best approach and isn't there a better ...
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How to add a custom field to Magento catalog_product_option_type_value table
I'm just wondering if there is an easier way?
What I was going to do is create my own custom table with a reference to the option_type_id from the catalog_product_option_type_value because I don't ...
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