Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Didier D. 0n July 31 2009

I have a question about something which looks very strange to me.
When I use the variable : {{var customer.id}} into the “New Password” email , I get the customer Number.
If I use the same variable into the “New Order” email, I get nothing.
How can we explain this ?
What variable must I use to get customer number into the “New order” email ?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Xtrem726 0n July 31 2009

How to show latest added product on the first product catalog page ?

When i add new product, it always shown on the last page on my product catalog, I want my customers view my newest product
when they visit one of product categories.
I already search any tutorial, but all of them make me frustrating.

Iam using latest magento version, please help,

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by eCigaretteWeb.co.uk 0n July 31 2009

I cannot implement the shipping estimator! It may have previously been removed, however having looked through the files in /public_html/app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/checkout/cart.phtml for the relevant files that may have been removed they are all still there! Anyone know how I go about re-implementing this? Is it a  I may need to switch back?!

Any help greatly appreciated…

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by rolomode 0n July 31 2009

Please I need icons for display the categories (like the image). Exists the “A” navigacion and “C” navigacion…but the “B” its posible?…how?.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by shaneoston 0n July 31 2009

we have several clothing items both with size and color as variable. the documentation (the book which i purchased) has instructions with screen shots that don’t match our product. open source version 1.3.2.2.

specifically, i have created two tshirt simple products (small and medium) with a price and inventory. i go to set up a new configurable product. i don’t see where i associate the simple items to the configurable product or where to set the price based on the size selected.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by rioteeru 0n July 31 2009

I have sneakers I wish to sell on my website. If they buy 1 pair it’s 1 price, 6 or more pairs is another price, and a dozen or more is yet another price.

However, when I make configurable products, i’ve found that they have to buy 12 pieces of 1 size and 1 color to get the price. If they buy 1 of each size, it charges full price.

Anyone know of a fix or workaround to get this functioning as stated?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by krishna17 0n July 31 2009

I am new to Magento.
I am looking for some documentation to create a portal for a vendor.
the portal requirements are :
1. vendor registration
2. admin confirming the vendor registration.
3. vendor login.
4. vendor should be able to upload his products? (the product could be a zip file)
5. administrator can validate the product and approve the product.

I am struggling to find some developer documentation for the same?
Could any one of you help me provide some links that will help me to develop this website?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by spyr05 0n July 31 2009

I want to change the categories borders and colour, the screenshot below will help you understand what i am looking for

i want the category to have like a grey border and the text inside it

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by ikelewis 0n July 31 2009

Is there a way to change my Additional Information tab’s name. I tried changing the “title” attribute of the tab in catalog.xml, but I got a 500 error.

Is there a good way to do this?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by brianfeister 0n July 31 2009

I’m looking to make the images rectangular (portrait) rather than square. Which lines of code determine the dimensions of the various product images. I think there’s at least 4 different types of product images right?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by cooldar 0n July 31 2009

I am trying to display my URL in the footer section by calling

echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

but because of cache, this echo doesn’t change even though I am calling different URL within the website.

How do I only disable caching for the footer.phtml or only disable certain section within the footer.phtml.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by serse 0n July 30 2009

I’m trying to import all products from a csv file but Magento gives me this error for each record: ‘Skip import row, required field “sku” not defined’.

I’ve followed the instructions, ie:
1) manually entered a product
2) exported the csv file with the profile that is in “import / export”
3) Opened the file (where the sku appear) and added products in compliance with columns and fields (I have tried both with Excel both with Open Office Calc)
4) imported the new file with the interactive transfer

But I get the same error. The error doesn’t occur only when I directly re-import the exported file (without opening it with excel or calc).
Can you give some help?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by jgorrell 0n July 30 2009

The problem is, I would like to use the first code snippet above on a non-admin page to see if the current user has an active admin session in order for me to display certain data on the store. When I try the above code, nothing is returned from the isLoggedIn() method.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Martin Tygsen 0n July 30 2009

I need to link to an attribute without looking at the category.

So for example I have a attribute called Brand, and a option under Brand called Diesel. I want to link to Diesel and show all products with the attribute. Not only the ones in a single category.

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by sebdah 0n July 30 2009

Is there a module or so to add a new required field when registering as a customer?

I need Magento to as for all customers ‘personal number’ which is the Swedish equivalen to social security numbers.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Ali Said 0n July 30 2009

I actually know how to, but I am getting the following message.

Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.

I have fully authorized every file needed on my server and yet I’m still getting this message…I’d love to so any help will be greatly appreciated..!

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Scena 0n July 30 2009

1) change the stores URL so that instead of it being the way it is now, i.e. (without the Magento). i understood that i need to rename the Base directory (which is easy) but the trickey part is .. what to i call it? i mean, can i just rename the Root to Old_Root and rename the Magento directory as Root? i predict some problems with this idea…

2) i want to edit the “about us” page. the problem is, that in the editting page i see a URL which is about-us.html but it doesnt load the About Us page i create. if i try to put in the real URL  – i get a message saying :
Please enter a valid Identifier. For example example-page, example-page.html or anotherlevel/example-page .
no matter waht i tried, i didn’t find it. where can i direct the URL to the right place, and how?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Joshua Sortino 0n July 30 2009

I was wondering if it is possible to import related products via CSV? If not, what are my options … are any modules sold?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by stevenron 0n July 30 2009

Everything works fine when my customers select shipping in the U.S. but when an international customer tries to order it gets the error message: “This shipping method is currently unavailable. If you would like to ship using this shipping method, please contact us. “. How could it work in the U.S. and not international? Its the same account in both USPS and Fed Ex. Thank you for your help.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Jawbreak 0n July 30 2009

Is there an easy way to redirect a category to another category when the user clicks on it.

I have two main categories with a bunch of subcategories. I want two subcategories in these trees to point to the same location.

Any ideas?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by littleblueroom 0n July 30 2009

I’m slowly getting the shop up but have a few questions.

1. can I turn off the “compare products” box?
2. how can I get the tax listed in the cart view
3. how do I set up cash on delivery?
4. what I don’t quite understand, if someone buys something and I want them to pay per bank transfer in advance, how do I set this up, how do they automatically get the details of what they have bouhgt, how much and the account detaisl? Per Email of course, or I guess they login, but where do I enter these infos?

3. and now another one which is a bit more difficult I think

The shop  stuff per meter, so I just turn on “allow decimals” in the inventory.
But then if I order say 1,25 meters, I get the message “you have 1,25 products in your cart”
I would actually like to count the number of items in a different way.
If i have to articles in the cart, say one with 3,45 meters and one with 2,3 meters, it should displa 2 articles and not 5,75 articles.
Is there any easy way to read out the number of “lines” instead of the number of articles and display this?

thank you in advance and thanks for your time

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by scher1981 0n July 30 2009

Can anyone answer the following:

What are:

Page Style
Proxy Host
Proxy Port
Sandbox Flag
Debug Flag
Use Proxy
Paypal URL

??

I’m setting up and have found that others have used just the username, password, and API signature fields and are up and working and have found what appears to be a working URL for PayPal URL but really would like to know what the rest is for.

Any help would be appreciated. Magento development team perhaps?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by cinemaduro 0n July 29 2009

I need to be able to turn off certain products for people in states that don’t allow purchasing of certain products online. If this is something that is easy-ish, please let me know. I haven’t been able to find anything about it on the forums or in the manuals.

I want to have it tie into the users shipping address to find their state information. I have a plugin that will allow me to set it up so that users will be forced to login before seeing the catalog (Customer Groups Configurable Catalog), so we will know where they are according to their profile info.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by spytecinc 0n July 29 2009

Is there a way to implement MULTIPLE Flat Rate Shipping rates such as:
Ground $5.00
2nd Day Air $25.00
Next Day Air $35.00
Saturday Delivery $55.00

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Jason J 0n July 29 2009

I have installed the ‘blank’ theme to work with on a shop I’m putting together. I have just about worked out which templates do what and what I need to change to get the layout that I want. But one thing – probably a really simple thing – I just cannot fix, is the content of the home page.

The ‘classic’ theme contains various blocks and adverts, and listings on the home page. All the blank theme is showing me, apart from the right-hand column, is the text “Home Page” (content of the CMS home page).

How do I get it to look more like the classic theme home page? For example, how would I get a selection of products, the latest products or top-sellers onto that page?

Do I need to mess with the templates? Do I embed some codes into the CMS page content? Is there an admin screen I have not yet found which lets me add functional blocks to the layout of that home page?

Sorry if this seems obvious to others, but I just don’t know where to start. I don’t know what that missing piece of the jigsaw is.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by rlevin1792 0n July 29 2009

really dumb question. I added a google checkout button and a paypal button to http://www.wickedshot.com/index.php/checkout/cart/ in the box with the Grand Total, etc. Now I want to remove them and can’t remember what file I made the change to! Where do I go to delete that code?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by OL Marketer 0n July 29 2009

I currently have an OSC site (ouch). I am converting to Magento and have found answers to most of my questions. If someone an help me with this one I would appreciate it.

At this point I can only take orders online and process credit cards in our office. If I get an order in Magento can I go in and get the order info including credit card information to process in my office?

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by bigpete 0n July 29 2009

I run two magento stores under the same website.

My magento installation is located in for eg http://www.mystorename.com/store

What is the best robots.txt file to use so I can stop being flooded with over 100 search engine connections at a time?

If I view online customers i will see the following urls for them :-
default is my main store name
hobbies is my other store

I have looked at the sample robots.txt files located here but they all assume that magento is located in the www root dir.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by tricktcha 0n July 29 2009

I’m new to Magento, so hopefully this problem has an easy fix. In IE 7 and 8, the columns on my site are completely out of order in product list view and product view.

Here is what the site is supposed to look like (how it looks in Firefox/Safari):Here is how it looks in IE 7 & 8, with the column completely in the wrong spot:

I was working on some code today to get rid of the zoom feature and change the placement of the “Product Description” block, etc, but I’ve reverted my view.phtml and media.phtml files back to the originals (I think!) and the site is still crazy in IE.

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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by stevenron 0n July 28 2009

Am I nuts? is there no way to print shipping labels in Magento? How does everyone print out USPS or Fed ex shipping labels? In the past all i had to do was click and pay on paypal. Do I have to literally log in to USPS and Fed ex websites, enter all the address information and shipping info and do it manually? If i knew that was the way it is I probably never would have considered magento. thanks for your help! Sorry, I’m a newbie so I may me missing something!

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