[TYPO3-commerce] problems with template system

[Bob Wild]

Hi, Rik,

I owe you a big thank you for your time and help!

As for 1) I don't quite understand why the behaviour does not grasp, 
because the TS setup of commerce itself is configured that way. All I do 
is overwrite (override? I still don't know the difference...) that 
particular part of TS. There I thought deleting the title should result 
in not showing anything for the title, as much as a title.warp = 
<h2>|</h2> sets the text to H2.
I have the weird feeling that this seems to be buggy... but I am too 
less a programmer...

As for the problem that only a handful know what's going on in commerce, 
I do understand and see the problem. On the other hand would this be the 
place to get things clear and then maybe put some tutorials somewhere- 
Latter is definately my intension and the reason simply is to have sth 
which reminds me once I've forgotten things. If there is advantage for 
others - great!

A question - maybe you have experience (I will only find time next week 
to test it): is fe_attr_commerce still applicable for commerce 0.11.15?

Again a big thank you!
Regards,
Robert

> 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