Create new categories
Our blog entries will need to be organized into categories in order to group them together with other blog entries, according to geographical location. Go to the Taxonomy link under Content management section in the Administer page, and navigate to the Taxonomy page. If you have started a new site, then you will see at the foot of this page a notice that there is no vocabulary available for your new categories. The vocabulary is a term by which a collection of categories or terms can be...
Country settings
Selecting the Country settings link will lead to the expected Country settings page. Select the Import countries link to give Ubercart the details of the countries that your cart will deal with. In this case, and only for the purpose of illustration, we have selected United Kingdom Canada and the United States have been imported by default. Country settings overview Country formats Country file united_kingdom_826_l.cif imported. To import new country data, select it in the list and click the...
Basic Ubercart configurations
Now, at first glance, Ubercart can look like a very hostile animal indeed, with many pages of daunting features. However, this needn't be so. Just imagine it as a feast, and you only need to take what you need from the whole table and leave the rest for later, or for other people with more varied tastes. Firstly, we must enable Ubercart and all of the dependent modules, as indicated by the Modules table. Without the following modules Ubercart will not function, and so they must be enabled prior...
Create a Gender field
The Gender field is also built in a similar way to the other two fields, but with a different component. For this field, we will be using the Select component. Therefore, we will need to present options to the user to select from. The values to be entered for this field are shown in the following screenshot This is used as a descriptive label when displaying this form element. Default value The default value of the field. For multiple selects use commas to separate multiple defaults. 0 Token...
Configure the Webform module
We must configure the Webform module exactly as we want it to work. For this, visit the link or the page for the Webform module on the Administer page, and you will be shown the following page. Webforms are forms and questionnaires. To add one, select Create content - gt Webform. These are the available field types for your installation of Webform. You may disable any of these components by unoheoking its corresponding box. Only checked components will be available in existing or new webforms,...
Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module Ycw
Download the Taxonomy Menu module, and install it. After this, go to the Administer page, and then to the Taxonomy Menu settings page. Select the vocabularies that you want to include in your menu, and save the configuration. You will now see the links to items related to each vocabulary under the Navigation menu in the sidebar. How should be the first item on the menu Example categories 1 2 3, technology 1 2 3 EH Display number of nodes per terms If checked, number of node per term will be...
Configure the Blog entry Content type 1
The Blog entry Content type is automatically created when the core Blog module is enabled. This Content type will permit users to post blog posts that are simply user journals. Ensure that you have enabled the Blog module. By browsing onto the Administer page of the site and then into the Content management section, we will find the Content types link. If we access this page, then we will see the various Content types listed there. We will not be creating a new Content type as the Blog entry...
Store settings
We do need to enlighten Ubercart, as well as the site users, on some stuff such as the store's name, address, and other information. Again, on the Store settings page, we will only be adding items that are listed on the Contact settings page, for simplicity. 0 Include the store name In the from line of store e-mails. May not be available on all server configurations. Turn off if this causes problems.
Configure Chat
There are several other modules capable of adding the chat functionality to the community web site, but the Tribune module has been selected, just as an example and not because it is better than any other. Go to the Modules page in Administer Site building, and enable the Tribune module. Then return to the Administer page, and look for the Tribune link, which will lead to a configuration page. Most of the settings in this page may safely be left with their default values. If you click on the...
Shipping quote settings
Now for another important aspect that we have nearly forgotten after Joe Bling has ordered a dozen Dridgets and has been taken to the checkout point, he needs to be charged for shipping. Otherwise, Dridgets Inc. will lose out when getting the stuff to Joe Bling's house. Therefore, let's go to the Shipping quotes settings page to sort this out. Here, as we had earlier determined that all of the customers will be charged a flat rate of 2 per order for all of their purchases, we will select the...
Create new Group Content type
By navigating to the Administer page of the site and then into the Content management section, we will find the Content types link. If we access this page, then we will see the various content types listed there. 1. Click on the Add content type link at the top you will then be presented with a form. 2. Add the Content type's descriptions, the general rules for the adding of content to, and displaying of content from, this new Content type, in the places where they need to be in the form. 3. In...
Create the Interest field
The Interest field uses the textarea component, because this component can better handle content of undetermined length. The completed Interest field is shown in the following screenshot Edit component Interest textarea view Resu ts This is used as a descriptive label when displaying this form element, The default value of the field. 0 Token values- A short description of the field used as help for the user when he she uses the form. t gt Token values- Width of the textfield. Leaving blank will...