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Magento – Inventory by Attribute & Shipping Origin by Product

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by ConvenientGadgets 0n December 31 2008

– We’re testing out Megento as a possible replacement for our current cart and we need the following functionality. I don’t see the following features available in Magento. Please advise if they are. If not we are looking for someone to quote them (hopefully as an extension module) for us as they are show stoppers for converting to Magento.

INVENTORY
Ability to track inventory by attribute, i.e. We have 7 Blue blankets and 9 Red blankets.

SHIPPING
Ability to set Shipping Origin (Zip) by product. We have some products on-hand and will ship from zip code 11111 we have other products that are drop shipped from say zip code 22222. We need to be able to set the origin zip code for a product and have it calculate shipping based on that.

Ability to limit the shipping methods by product. For products we have on-hand we might offer US Postal (USPS) but from some drop shipped items they might be shipped by UPS.

The shipping calculations need to bundle by origin zip code. So if there are two products: Product A (1 LB) and Product B (2 LB) and those are both being shipped from zip code 11111, then the shipping weight is 3 LBs.

Here’s an example order:
Order #1
- Product A, 1 LB, Ships from 11111
- Product B, 2 LB, Ships from 11111
- Product C, 1 LB, Ships from 22222

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Magento : newb – using Magento Connect Manger

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by ThadBry 0n December 31 2008

I’m trying to upgrade Magento to 1.2.0 from 1.1.8. I’m using the Connect Manager, but I’m not seeing how to upgrade. I found this blog article:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/magento-version-120-is-now-available/#When:04:53:00Z

I’m stuck on “For the Mage_All_Latest package select upgrade.”

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Magento – Make links active in CMS Page

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by amjath 0n December 31 2008

i need a help.. i tried to search for this, but unable to find a solution.

I have added some pages and the links will appear along with the top navigational menu(to the right).

i need to make the links active when the page is taken…

it works, but fails when the url is esso/hosting (as u all know, the page can be viewed either by giving the url site/index.php/yourpage or site/yourpage)

Hope many will be facing this challenge.. if someone has found a solution, please share with us.

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Magento – Upgraded to 1.2.0 from 1.1.8, admin section unreachable

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by moweesteffen 0n December 30 2008

I just upgraded my shop and now it is impossible to get to the admin section.

When i login i get forwarded to the front page.

The categories also gives issues now:

Notice: Undefined index: symbol_choice in /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Locale/Currency.php on line 69

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Magento – Table catalogsearch_result already exists

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Thierry S. 0n December 30 2008

From 1.1.8
upgrade using Mage_All_Latest tag with the cache disable
settings are set to Stable
I have Improved_Search module installed as well as languages module installed

I tested with removing Improved_Search before upgrading, but I have the same exception. ( full PDO exception attached )

Error in file: “/var/www/test/app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/sql/catalogsearch_setup/mysql4-upgrade-0.7.5-0.7.6.php” – SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table ‘catalogsearch_result’ already exists

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Magento – Secure Urls not working when checking out

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by gadgetsdirect 0n December 30 2008

When checking out, the software stays in unsecure more.

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Magento – Unable to add Images to Products

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Erkenbrand 0n December 30 2008

I’ve upgraded from 1.1.7 to 1.1.8, and now can not add images to my products. I’ve not had this problem before, and have been actively using this since 1.1.6. When I get to the Images tab in the Products screen, where it used to say ‘Browse Files’ is now just a gray box. Everything else seems to be working (after several fixes after the 1.1.8 upgrade) except this issue.

The Media directory is set to 777 permissions . . . I’m just at a loss as to what to do next. Any suggestions?

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Magento – Password issues

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Matt Webster 0n December 28 2008

All seemed fine till customers started reporting to me that there was major issues with not being able to login.

Now it looks like all my passwords arent right anymore. I can’t send new passwords because they dont work either!!

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Magento – sort order (position) ignored to large extent in manage categories / manage products

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by alex.bsc 0n December 27 2008

Each item in this category has been given the corresponding position (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc). This is to overcome the bug which follows below.
When viewed by the root anchor,

As you can see, items 11, 12 ad 13 are coming up to the top when they should follow number 10.

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Magento – filtering by category in shop by box produces default store filter cancellation text

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by alex.bsc 0n December 27 2008

when switching store views into e.g. different languages and filtering by category in the ‘shop by’ box, the default store text appears next to the [X] to deselect the filter.

This is problematic as on a fully translated site, the default (english) category descriptions appear after selecting a translated store category.

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