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When I proceed to checkout using the demo store in my recent install, I don't have the option to select any shipping methods. Do I need to setup zones or something? What might I be missing?

Can anyone let me know if it would be difficult to return product results sorted alphabetically, ignore leading articles such as "a, an, the"?

Thanks! 

Interesting thoughts, though I'm not sure they would really solve the problem. Author combinations are many, and authors are many as well. Therefore neither categories nor manufacturer combinations really address our needs.

Is it safe to assume that this is something the could be solved with custom programming? I'm wondering if, for example:

1. a database table of author names and text were added
2. author ids were assigned to products as custom product fields
3. a new view was created to display authors when a specific id is given
4. each author page would do a lookup to find any products with the author id in the custom field and display it
5. the search could be enhanced so that searching by author name would find the product display
6. the product display would traverse the custom product field reference to be able to display the author information
7. I have another system that already manages the author-product assignement, so I would be populating KK's product using web services or direct pojo access

Does this sound like I'm on the right track?

Thanks for the reply and clarification. I've used the Everaldo icons with good results. It's amazing the quality of "Free" goods on the Internet these days.

Interesting. Would this support multiple authors, which is a frequent occurence?

I would like to program a bookstore in KK. In order to do that I need to be able to associate products, often books, with authors. The product page would list all the authors, and have links to each author page. The author page would include a photo (optional) and a bio + other text, like tour schedule and so on. It would also include a reference back to all the available products display image, title, price, etc.

An example of what I would like to achieve has been built by the Soundstrue shop. And example is here:

Product Page: http://shop.soundstrue.com/shop.soundstrue.com/SelectProd.do?prodId=328&manufacturer=Sounds%20True&category=Tibetan&name=Pure%20Meditation


Author Page: http://shop.soundstrue.com/authors.soundstrue.com/chodronp/

I can imagine how I could enter the text and links to the author pages within the product text field. But I'm not clear on how I would be handle the author information. Specifically, does KK admin provide any admin for creating and managing author information? And is the best way to display the author information to simply custom code each author page, and include some sort of call back function to get a list of associated titles? Or is this a good candidate for the OpenCMS (or other CMS) integration?

Please let me know if this is not clear.

I look forward to your thoughts!

Joshua

Hi Greg,

You've been so helpful so far -- the last thing I want to do is offend you!

The admin gui is definitely useful, and utilitarian. My concerns are:

1. Overall branding is not very elegant. Especially when compared to your very attractive public home page. Think this is a factory of having so much repetition of the gray gradient background behind the left hand sidebar elements, and banner element.

2. As I mentioned, the icons are reminiscent of an old Windows 3.0 app. Some are pixelated, others are a little hard to interpret.

I'm happy to do the skinning required to see if I'm able to improve things. And I am also willing to share whatever improvements I make. Is there a KonaKart-exchange type of site where users can share their tweaks and improvements? Or is it just accomplished here in the forums?

This is helpful clarification. Thank you!

You can do a fair amount of skinning by editing KonakartAdmin.css.

Excellent! That's what I was hoping.

Thanks for your reply.

So is it accurate to understand that implementers are writing custom code to get the orders out of KK?

Is is safe to assume that the web services have straightforward methods for retrieving, for example, all orders that are submitted but not yet shipped?

Does BIRT often play a role in this?

Thanks!

We are considering using multi-store to host other companies stores, but we're concerned that the admin skin looks a bit "amateur", especially when compared with the attractive KK public website.

My question is whether it is possible to skin the admin site? It looks like at a minimum it should be easy to swap out some of the graphics? For that matter, in the rare case that you aren't aware of it, I would point you to the attractive "Crystal" icon theme. I'm not sure if the license allows for redistributing it, but it's worth exploring. http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=downloads

Thanks!

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this question, but here goes!

In our installation, we will want to transmit a data feed for pick/pack lists to the warehouse. In addition we will want to receive shipping notification for orders from the warehouse, and bill the credit cards based on what has shipped.

I haven't seen (probably overlooked!) any information on KK's docs relating to how orders are fulfilled after they have been entered. I would like help answering the following questions:

1. What process & workflow do folks use to fulfill orders?

2. At what point do people charge CC's?

3. Is there a best practice or doc that discusses this anywhere?

Thanks so much!

Joshua

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your prompt reply. It tells me a lot about the quality of support for this product.

You are right that I am on unix. At this point, I'm only trying to get access to the one page checkout, and not to build it. Eventually I will want to get at the code, but that is not what I'm trying to do now.

At the risk of being obvious, how do I see the one page checkout in action? When I enable the feature in the admin, and then attempt to checkout, I don't see it working?

Does KK provide any back ordering features? For example, a custom cart I built allows a user to order items that are out of stock. The order goes into a holding pattern and when it comes back into stock, it automatically gets fulfilled.

If it doesn't already have this feature, does is there a recommended approach for how I could hire someone to build it for me?

Thanks for a very interesting and promising product!

Joshua

When I try to build the onepagecheckout for GTW in 3.2.0.0, I get the following error output. Can anyone provide some clues as to the source and resolution of the problem?

[root@rd onepagecheckout]# ../bin/ant
Buildfile: build.xml

clean:
     [echo] Cleanup...

compile:
     [echo] Compile the sources
    [mkdir] Created dir: /opt/services/mandaladesigns/shop-demo.mandaladesigns.com/custom/onepagecheckout/bin
    [javac] Compiling 71 source files to /opt/services/mandaladesigns/shop-demo.mandaladesigns.com/custom/onepagecheckout/bin
    [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
     [echo] GWT-Compile the sources

setConfigs:
     [echo] Set Configs to:
     [echo]     adapter         = mysql
     [echo]     driver          = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
     [echo]     user            = USR
     [echo]     password        = PWD
     [echo]     url             = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/shop_demo?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull
     [echo]     validationQuery = select 1

run:
     [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /opt/services/mandaladesigns/shop-demo.mandaladesigns.com/custom/onepagecheckout/lib/libswt-win32-3235.so
     [java]    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1677)
     [java]    at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
     [java]    at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1005)
     [java]    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:132)
     [java]    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:18)
     [java]    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:125)
     [java]    at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.<clinit>(GWTShell.java:301)
     [java] Could not find the main class: com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.  Program will exit.

BUILD FAILED
/opt/services/mandaladesigns/shop-demo.mandaladesigns.com/custom/onepagecheckout/build.xml:117: Java returned: 1