[TYPO3-commerce] Commerce: a big disappointment

[Tim Rüther]

Hi Dmitry,

there is a 0 in front of the version.. :)
The manual is in preparation and will be available very soon.

For now here is a little one:

http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/EXT/commerce/manual

so if you have questions write it to te list and you'll get an answer.

Greets Tim


Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> (Mainly to developers of Commerce)
>
> Hi!
>
> I will need a shop extension soon for my own company. Naturaly I went to 
> look to a fresh shinhing Commerce extension. Well, it seems like it 
> cannot be really used except than by developers or people who are 
> willing to spend hours to find how to work with it :(
>
> Normally extension should have either very intuitive interface or at 
> least a tutorial to understand how to work with it. I could not find 
> either. I tried making pages for each plugin type to see if it displays 
> anything. I could not select any of default templates because template 
> selector does not let to select from extensions (TemplaVoila, for 
> example, allows it). So I had to copy those to fileadmin. Well... You 
> know how "good" it is for regular user without Quickplorer extension.
>
> Than I went for configuration of "Product Listing". It wants a "Details 
> page" but there is no plugin named "Details" or anything. How I am 
> supposed to figure out what to put there? What is "Number pages 
> (Pagebrowser)" is supposed to mean? It is just not in English! "show 
> Pagebrowser" (why with small "s"?) does not do anything: page browser is 
> always displayed... Looks like someone programmed something in a big 
> hurry with much care. Would you imagine sucgh style in typo3 core? Never 
> ever.
>
> Next I wanted to create a product. I want to create a photographic shop. 
> So I need to specify thumbnail and available image sizes. After watching 
> a podcast I got an idea that I need to use attributes. Well, ok, I 
> created "Image sizes" attribute. But what am I supposed to do next? I 
> could select it in "Shall" (and save form) but nothing happens after 
> that. How am I supposed to specify these image sizes or put thumbnail? 
> No wizards to help me making a product...
>
> Sorry guys, may be you made a good extension for yourself and your 
> clients. But it is completely unusable if one wants to install and do 
> something quickly with it. And there is no manual.
>
> I do not want to offend you, possibly it works very well for you. But it 
>   will be problematic for many others to use it unless you do something 
> to make it more user friendly. At least, write a manual.
>
> By the way, typo3-commerce.org says that it cannot connect to the 
> database. Looks significant...
>
> Anyone have an idea about other good shop extension for typo3?
>
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