[TYPO3-commerce] problems with template system

[Rik Willems]

Hi Bob,

1)
Basically typoscript is a big configurator. It thus instructs the 
extension on how to behave. If you remove/delete parts of the typoscript 
it doesn't mean the extension does do anything. It will miss that part 
of the config and use default. Or in case it does need a config give 
weird output (like the image).
The extension also looks for the subparts, in this case <!-- 
###CATEGORY_ITEM### -->. If it can't find it an error will be given. To 
remove the category text in single view you must remove the individual 
markers but keep the subpart. Then all be fine.

2)
It probaly has something to do with multilanguage. If you don't use that 
it seems normal that it doesn't produce output. You can look in the 
source how that marker gets filled.

3)
By the looks of it you can not do this here. To be sure you must look in 
the source. If you are willing to contribute this please make a patch so 
it can be added.

4)
I think it's a fragment of something. Below it says: allArticles. If you 
set this to 1 all articles of the chosen product will be shown. Set it 
to 0 and only one is shown.
In the last case you can add select boxes so customers can choose the 
right article. See the recent discussion 'Missing attribute drop-dowm 
menu' on how to do that.


Hopefully this answer most of your questions.
One of the reason that you might not be answered the fact that commerce 
is quite complex. There is only a handful of people how really know 
everything.

Greets, Rik


Bob Wild schreef:
> Hi list,
> 
> I posted this problem already some weeks ago, but I didn't get any help, 
> so - stubborn as I can be - I try it again.
> 
> In particularly the situation is one with the HTML 
> category_products.tmpl and the TS that is supposed to (de)activate 
> certain markers or submakrs resp.
> 
> This is the sequence of how the various Markers are called (at least to 
> my understanding):
> 
> 1. ###CATEGORY_VIEW_DISPLAY### ,   this one calls the
> 2. ###CATEGORY_SUB_LIST### ,   which itself calls the
> 3. ###CATEGORY_LIST###
> 
> and then - depending on the TS-config with templateMarkers, either one, 
> two or more
> 
> 4. ###CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_[0|1|2|...]###
> 
> are called.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> ******************************************************************
> 
> 1. As soon as one gets to the point where products are shown (<!-- 
> ###PRODUCT_VIEW_DETAIL### begin--> in the HTML template), there will 
> also be a field that shows the respective category to which those 
> products belong (<!-- ###CATEGORY_ITEM### begin -->).
> The corresponding TS looks like this:
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi1 {
>     singleView {
>         products.categories {
>             title ...
>             subtitle ...
>             description ...
>             image ...
>             teaserimages ...
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> My adaptation:
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi1 {
>     singleView {
>         products.categories >
>     }
> }
> 
> Nevertheless the category is shown, meaning my TS does not work. (Even 
> if I delete the several objects seperately, like 
> "plugin.tx_commerce_pi1.singleView.product.categories.title > " no 
> changes happen, except for image, which results in the fact that the 
> image is not shown, but its name).
> 
> Very strange in this context is, too, that when I delete that respective 
> submarker from my HTML template I get errors and the site is not displayed.
> (Section "PRODUCT SINGLEVIEW" -> submarker "<!-- ###CATEGORY_ITEM### -->")
> 
> What am I misunderstanding here?
> 
> 
> ***********************************************************************
> 
> 2. Which content or what meaningful line is the marker 
> ###LANG_HEADER_ACTION### supposed to display? The respective tag in the 
> language.xml is just empty.
> 
> 
> 
> ***********************************************************************
> 
> 3. TemplateMarkers enable the use of different div-containers for the 
> Product display (odd - even):
> 
> LIST PRODUCT ITEM  ->  EVEN  ->  ###CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_2###
> LIST PRODUCT ITEM  ->  ODD   ->  ###CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_3###
> 
> In the TS is says:
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi1 {
>   ...
>   // templateMarker.categoryProductList.0
>   // Number of Iterations in the Product List Number
>   templateMarker.categoryProductListTopIterations =  1
>   templateMarker.categoryProductListIterations =  2
>     
>   // Change the templateMarker for product List to an iteration System
>   // Now unlimeted Marker can be defined, same for topProducts
>   // Array with Template Marker from 0 to x as key
>     
>   templateMarker.categoryProductListTop.0 = CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_1   
>   templateMarker.categoryProductList.0 = CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_2
>   templateMarker.categoryProductList.1 = CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_3   
> 
>   ...
> 
>   // Template marker for different views
>   templateMarker {
>    ...
>    productAttributesSelectorDropdown = SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN
>    productAttributesSelectorRadiobutton = SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_RADIOBUTTON
>    // make a selector Element or show all Artikels
>   }
> }
> 
> Is there any way that I can use the same principle for displaying 
> subcategories in ###CATEGORY-LIST###?
> 
> (Why? - Having severeal subcategories, I would like to display 2 
> categories next to each other. The different length of the texts results 
> in different lengths of the columns, which results in overlapping of 
> subcategories. The idea is to set a clear-div after every second 
> subcategory - but this seems not to be possible now. Or do I have a 
> wrong understanding of the system?)
> 
> 
> *********************************************************************
> 
> 4. In the plugin.tx_commerce_pi1.templateMarkter section (see under 3) 
> there is a line saying:
> 
> // make a selector Element or show all Artikels
> 
> Can anybody explain, what that means? And maybe give an example?
> 
> 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Regards, Robert