Friday 10 August 2012

UBERCART ATTRIBUTES
are things that buyers attribute to a product; size 10 or giftwrap.
I know this because my dozen intrinsic characteristics didn't display well. Each one like "made in UK" had a box underneath it as though the customer was meant to say "yes" or "no" when the deed is already done. 
One of the series on Ubercart.org describes attributes in a more organised way. Apparently they have options:
Attribute could be colour ; Option could be red..

There doesn't seem to be any subtlety about use of language to describe different relationships between products. These words are just pulled-out of a thesaurus.

https://drupal.org/node/916212 is a page about themes.

Error message
Notice: Undefined index: base theme in system_find_base_themes() (line 2664 of C:\a Website\2\drupal-7.14\modules\system\system.module).
 
Which was trying to say that Fusion base theme doesn't work by itself unless you find some bit of code to hack; you are meant to install a starter theme as default, which quite likely downloaded at the same time.

Are you free?
Aquia Prosper has not been updated to Drupal 7. An alpha release ceased development in June 2011. For some forgotten reason, this was meant to be the most tweaked free theme for selling things, but now it isn't.
 
http://fusiondrupalthemes.com/theme/Acquia-Marina is free.
http://fusiondrupalthemes.com/theme/Acquia-Slate is free.

Adaptive Themes have a free base theme on which
https://drupal.org/project/AT-Commerce is free.



Monday 6 August 2012

Shipping modules now exist!

Two years ago I gave-up on Ubercart because I couldn't use the shipping module outside the US.
Things have got better.

http://www.ubercart.org/project/uc_global_quote makes it possible to allocate each of the hundred or more countries to a zone, such as the ones your post office uses when charging for parcels. I only discovered this a day or two ago and spent an Olympic weekend allocating every single country I could find on my post office's web site a zone.

https://drupal.org/project/rmzone was released yesterday by Andrew Foulston. Released for Drupal Commerce, it is not rejected by Ubercart and makes a data selector show-up under a Royal Mail heading (I discover that grey data on the drop-down menus is linked to other data selections, and forget quite how many clicks it took to find this).

Now, to get the last of my data out of ubercart global quotes I have tried disabling it and now even uninstalling it. And reinstalling it. Computer says no.