catalog

Organizing large collection of things - usability and UI point of view

In our application we have a repository that contains things (they are called methods and queries, but this is not particularly relevant for this question). Each thing has a title, description (though some may lack both) and some other data. Users save things to repository and load and use things from repository. I wonder what is the be...

Catalogue Design

Hey, Please have a look at http://live.heritageartpapers.co.uk/catalogue.aspx and advise me on the following: Currently customers are getting confused (judging by the one who clicking the same link 20 odd times yesterday) because each level of product is pretty much the same. I would like to differentiate each level of product. However...

Can I use Magento without the sales features? Or am I better off with a scratch build?

Hi all, I have a site build which would seem to suit Magento up to a point, but the client doesn't actually want to sell anything - at the end of the process of choosing a product the user would simply be redirected to another site to complete the transaction (or not). I would like to avoid just hacking these features out of Magento en...

How to discover what a Postgresql table's usage is?

Our team is working on a Postgresql database with lots of tables and views, without any referential constraints. The project is undocumented and there appears to be a great number of unused/temporary/duplicate tables/views dirtying the schema. We need to discover what database objects have real value and are actually used and accessed. ...

Magento custom order attribute/fields? Shooting myself in the foot?

I'm building a Magento store using a single catalog over 4 domains: 1 for the US and 3 for Europe (UK, French, and German). There's 1 fulfillment warehouse in Europe, 1 in the US and a sort of unofficial/internal "warehouse" in the US where giveaways and such are fulfilled, and we are not tracking inventory levels in Magento. We need to ...

magento : flush catalog images cache create problem!?

Hello, I am working with Magento. I refresh cache from admin panel. After that, when I open the front end site, I found that no product images were loaded. Some problem arise in that. Please, if anyone can help. Thanx. ...

Magento: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' after rebuilding flat catalog product

In magento, after rebuilding programmatically the flat product catalog with the script I found at http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/43238/ I keep getting the error exception 'Zend_Db_Statement_Exception' with message 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' in 'field list'' whenever...