I am using opencart and previous developer used lots option values for color. It is more than 80,000. Now when I am trying to add new options to product it doesn't load the options. I want to simplify and narrow down the 80,000 + options values to 300 and add Size option but no product take that and if I delete the color option i have to edit thousands of products which i don't wanna do. is there any way where it is possible to solve this issue in short time?
Thanks
I would advise to solve parts of that issue on the database layer first. You could start adding indexes so your options will load again in the UI. Then you also might be able to add other options again.
For replacing 80000+ options with 300 you might want to consider writing a PHP script that will first store the old ID's, then insert the new 300 options, then replace the references to the old IDs with references to the new IDs, finally (if all went well) delete the old options.
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Actually, the raw_id_field option gives you a magnifying glass button next to the field which allows users to search for and select a value. You are obliged to select only one value at time. There is no way to select more than one values before adding.
Is there any way to get the link generated by the raw_id_field option, pull out a full-featured edit/select window? A window in which you can select more than one object that will be added to the raw_id_field?
Thanks a lot for advices and suggestions.
The short answer is no. For more details, just read this ticket
I am trying to do some reporting on page views on a site and the results are being listed like the following:
www.example.com/directory/ - 100 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=123456 - 10 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=987654 - 5 views
What filter do I need to create to views the results as:
www.example.com/directory/ - 100 views
www.example.com/directory/?id=* - 15 views
Thanks in advance
Yes, getting historical grouped together is going to mean using something like Google Docs, Excel, Tableau Software, Analytics Canvas, etc.
Moving forward...
One of the simplest ways of keeping things grouped in GA is to set up an advanced profile filter. You'll want to use this with a new profile; keeping a "raw" or "empty" profile is highly advisable for when you actually want to look at those individual URLs.
That said, here's a filter pattern that should work for you:
Go to Admin > Filters (under the View Column)
+ New Filter > Create new Filter > Name it
Filter Type = Custom filter > Advanced
Here's the pattern:
Field A: www\.example\.com\/directory\/\?id=.+
Output To: www\.example\.com\/directory\/\?id=\*
Another way to aggregate the same URI with multiple query strings is to change the primary dimension to 'Page Title' under Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.
The best way to do this for your historical data is unfortunately in an excel pivot table. You can get in in the UI, but only by creating a custom report and searching for very specific directories.
Check out the documentation on excluding query strings in your GA profile. Maybe create a new profile and write an advanced rule to rewrite all "id" pages to "/directory/product-page".
A totally different approach is to use custom variables or custom dimensions and to stop looking in the normal "Behavior" reports section (used to be called "Content" in GA) – custom dims are available using Google Analytics Universal Analytics only, which means starting a new web property and possibly running both code snippets concurrently (totally safe to do).
Personally I find custom dimensions a bit easier to work with than custom variables, and I generally think that it's a good idea to start exploring the new Google Analytics.
The nice thing about either of these approaches is that you can still keep the full page path date in the same profile as your custom dimension / variables information; it'll stay in the Behavior section where it belongs with all the other page paths.
Where I'm going with this...
You can create a new dimension such as "page type" and then call it "products", "posts", "articles", or whatever these id #s represent in this /directory/; then you can look at metrics across the dimension like pageviews, time on page, etc. by page type.
You can even create other dimensions to help describe them in more detail, such as breaking down blog posts or products into their different categories; i.e. hierarchical dimensions. Once you start using this kind of thing you may wonder what you ever did without it!
I think it's fair that I stop this answer now since it's not about how to set up custom variables or custom dimensions; those links should get you started (it's really not difficult).
Note: You can use php to fill in the dimension information in the GA tracking snippet dynamically based on the page that is being viewed (again, that's another question).
I have this content tree:
SiteA
- Home
- Articles
SiteB
- Home
- News
Repository
- article1
- article2
- article3
- ...
- article1000
Is there a way I can pull any article from the Repository Item and display it dynamically on the SiteA/Article Item? Same I would do with SiteB/News.
Additional Question:
Is it possible to inherit the layout of each article from the parent Item Repository? The articles will be added via migration(which I would be working on next) it would take too much time reassigning layouts once the items has been migrated.
Yes, there is. There's a couple different things you can do, depending on your requirements.
For instance, you can have a MultilistField on your SiteA/Article item, which enables you to select articles from the Repository item. By setting the Datasource field for the MultilistField to /sitecore/content/Repository you'll be able to select any or all.
However, that's probably not what you want, since you might have thousands of articles looking at your article names.
Another option is creating a sublayout / rendering that reads the latest X articles from the Repository item. With a simple for loop you could then do something like:
var list = new List<Item>();
var repoItem = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem("/sitecore/content/Repository");
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
list.Add(repoItem[i]);
}
Which you could set as a DataSource to an asp:Repeater. Of course, you could do it in many different ways (select the number of child items through some lambda expression, use Lucene to get the items if you also want to use keywords etc.).
You can also have the number of items defined somewhere in Sitecore, so it could be different for SiteB/News and SiteA/Article.
Looking at your question I can imagine you to eventually choose for an option like introducing Wildcard Items to present the data from your repository on those different locations. there is an interesting module available on the Marketplace.sitecore.net, have a look at that too before deciding what you want to do.
Reading your last line: I can pull any article from Repository/ Item and display it dynamically I would strongly suggest you to go for a wildcard solution.
Another option, is to use Sitecore Clones (from Sitecore 6.4) or Proxies (older than Sitecore 6.4).
Clones: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/10/Sitecore-CMS-6-4-Cloning.aspx
Proxies:
http://sdn.sitecore.net/Articles/Administration/Using%20Proxy%20Items%20in%205,-d-,3.aspx
Caveat Emptor: Turning on proxies and using them will affect performance. I think it works like this:
- each time it has to get items/children it looks in the Proxy table to see if any additional items should be added
- the more proxies there are the more "overhead" there will be to each "Sitecore query" has to look though all proxy items to see if there are any additional items that should be included in the result
Though this would copy all the items you choose to clone or proxy and might not be what you are looking to do.
I have become a bit confused on the best way to move forward with something I'd like to achieve in Wordpress. My problem is partly workflow I think and knowing the correct way to do what I'd like to achieve but also there may be a few blanks on how to actually implement some of what I need to do. I have checked various online resources but they all are specific to what they are doing and I can't easily understand them to apply them in to the context of my own project, which is why I wanted to ask here. I'm sure my initial question will inevitably branch out to sub questions but here we go:
For my website I have created a custom post type called 'projects'. I have successfully set this up.
Then for each project I need to allow the following data to be entered:
Project Title
Project Description
Also post meta data that will display as a list on each project page (I'll need to display both the key and value on the page but only for those fields that contain data 'i.e. I don't want the list to show as Location: blank'):
Client Name:
Location:
Project Value:
Architect:
Engineer:
Site Area:
My main question is this, I need to show images for each project and allow the user to select a 'template' for each project post, this is because there are about 5 grid designs for layout of the images (1 main Image, 1 square image with two small images right side, 3 portrait image cols etc).
I thought the correct way would be to create a custom post type called projects, add write panels to allow easy input of data (I've yet to add image uploads as this will need to vary depending on the template selected and number of images required), at data input stage the user selects the preferred image layout/template and then uploads images for the containers that allow images (I’ll need to id each image upload to position it in the template with CSS, that was the plan).
Firstly, am I approaching this correctly? And secondly, how can I add functionality to the write panel I have created to allow users to a) select a 'Template' (bit like you can with pages but for my custom post type) and b) to add image upload fields which change depending on the template selected?
Finally, I would like to stay away from using plug-ins and try and achieve this myself through functions.php etc. This is to avoid problems later as plugins update or lose support etc.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
This sort of question seems to come up a lot in regards to Wordpress (I answered essentially the same question the other day). I know you want to avoid plugins but this sounds like a job for Advanced Custom Fields.
You can create exactly the fields you need for your custom post type (including an image upload field), and then add them into the template the corresponds with your custom post type.
ACF does have a 'lite mode' which can be included directly in a theme. This way you needn't worry about updates nuking site functionality. Believe me you will save yourself a lot of time and energy this way.
It's admirable to try and do it with pure WP, but it's a maturing platform, it just doesn't lend itself to this sort of customization easily.
Im using TCPDF for the first time and am laying out some data using cells, the problem is because i am using multiple cells to layout what is essentially one item when the page breaks the items will split up rather than breaking all together.
Is there any way where you can nest cells / multicells in TCPDF??
Thanks
Found a good blog post that explains how to do this incase anyone finds this post later on - calulates the page dimensions to allow you to work out if you need to add a new page or not
http://www.onemoretake.com/2009/03/27/revisited-tcpdf-variable-height-table-rows-with-multicell/
The simplest way is to use HTML tables as on default examples, otherwise you can build custom low-level tables with Cell() or Multicell() as on the example n. 11. Check the official http://www.tcpdf.org website and forums for further information.