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#107 Requested user account configuration

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Latest post by sulpher on Thursday, 02 May 2024 13:28 EEST

amcodesign

Hello again,

I am contacting you again to see if you can help me with a specific configuration.

I need to configure the customer registry so that they can see their orders placed, in process... and there is no way to do it.

Would you be so kind as to give me a hand please? It is very important to have this option.

And it would be your configuration in the header next to the shopping cart.

I await your response, thank you.

Alexandra

sulpher
Hi Alexandra,
Perhaps you mean the list of orders made by a user. It is a core part of Phoca Cart. Just go to Menus > create a new menu item > Phoca Cart > Orders

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Please let me know if this information helped you.

Best regards,
Eugene

sulpher

Quote:
"And it would be your configuration in the header next to the shopping cart."

If the question is still actual, could you rephrase this moment and provide more details, please?

amcodesign

Hello Eugene,

I thank you very much for answering me.

Yes, I have this option in mind and I have also seen the "User account" option.
For what I need, should I configure both? Or would just the "orders" one be enough? This is the first question I have when starting with the configuration.

On the other hand, once I have the options activated or activated in the menu, they will appear in the same menu with all the categories, right? Well, my idea was to configure the customer's account and their orders right next to the shopping cart. (Attached link with image of the position)

https://i.postimg.cc/rsfCPpnf/Configuration-Phocacart-ecommerce.png

I would like to add the account with the "user" icon, "wishlist" and the "search" icon. But I'm going in parts, first the customer account.

And finally, to allow customers to have their account with their order history, do I need to activate some permission in Phocacart settings? I understand that a customer could register or access their account, and on the cart page when they proceed to place the order, their profile appears, to access or modify any data if applicable.
The step-by-step configuration would be very good for me, because this is the first time I configure it...

Little by little I will get information and I will be able to understand clearly how this configuration is done, for now I am quite lost and I cannot activate it. I hope I have given you more information so you can help me. Thank you very much in advance.

Greetings,

Alexandra

sulpher
Hi Alexandra,
There are the following problems:
1. You used wrong terms to describe the problem which caused misunderstanding.
2. The task is not clearly described (see previous point). Configuration is a set of settings/options. As far as I understood, you want additional menu items to be displayed as additional icons or as a dropdown menu. And each approach requires different actions to do.
3. It is hard to give an advice just seeing on the screenshot. It depends on which template you are using and how it is designed to understand what exactly should be done. An investigation of the site is needed.
4. You asked to give a step-by-step instructions.

To resolve this task, we need to use correct terms (and explain them), then to ask what exactly is needed, then examine your site structure in Administrator Panel, and finally, make changes and write step-by-step instuctions. It requires time.
You need to set up your Joomla and maybe template. It has nothing to do even with Phoca Cart.

We provide support to our products. In this case, configuration of the plugin. The question you asked about is related to work with Joomla or with 3rd party product (template) and is out of support scope.

There are free resources to examine:

https://docs.joomla.org/Tutorials:Beginners
Phoca Cart - User Manual
Creating an E-Commerce Website Using Joomla! and Phoca Cart
Joomla's official forum

If you want a quick solution, you can request on paid consulting.
This time I can assist with your question. And your testimonials on some resources will be fair exchange of experience/time instead of paid consulting. If it is ok for you, please send credentials to your site (there are available fields to fill in this ticket system and they are hidden for others).

Anyway, I recommend to learn Joomla basics since sooner or later more questions will follow.

Best regards,
Eugene

amcodesign

Hello Eugene,

I will briefly detail what I want to achieve with this configuration that I request.

A very simple user account, where the customer registers and obtains all the information about their orders.

It should be located on the left side of the shopping cart, with a "user" icon typical of all web pages.

I am using Yootheme builder for layout.

I understand that this setting is part of the Phocacart plugin, so I would really appreciate it if you set it up.

For service web pages, not much configuration is required and I already know how to do it, it is simply the ecommerce pages where the plugin configuration is done that we do not know, we know how to do the rest perfectly.

Tell me where to send you my website credentials, please.

 

Alexandra

 

 

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The ticket information has been edited by Alexandra Paños (amcodesign).

sulpher
Hi Alexandra,
You can edit your 1st message in this ticket and add credentials there. FTP is not needed, it is enough to provide admin access to Administrator Panel.
I am waiting the details of what is needed to be done (maybe screenshot will help) ;-)

Eugene

amcodesign

Hello Eugene,

Yesterday I was able to access the access keys to our backend.

I'll give you a screenshot of the position where I want the user icon to appear for the customer account with their orders. It is the yellow stripe that I indicated in yellow, here we will put a user icon with a link to the user account page.

https://i.postimg.cc/fTdkLcQ9/Cuenta-usuarios-phocacart.png

We would click on the icon and we would access the registration or access page.
That's all. You tell me how we proceed. Thank you

Alexandra

sulpher

Hi Alexandra,

I'd like to note your site looks very modern with Kojiro's template. Many users do not care about design, and it's nice to see when somebody made the right choice (Yootheme Pro).

Well, I finished this task.

1. There is a black button Authentication web which is not needed to users. I disabled it.

I disabled it here:

 

2. I added two icons with links and tooltips:

- My orders
- User account

There is a builder module which is set to "None" position. This element consists of the HTML code:

<div class="uk-grid-small" uk-grid>
  <div class="uk-width-expand">
        <a href="https://norrnext.com/index.php?option=com_phocacart&view=orders" uk-tooltip="title: Mis ordenes" class="uk-icon-button uk-margin-small-right" uk-icon="file-text"></a>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-width-expand">
        <a href="https://norrnext.com/index.php?option=com_phocacart&view=account" uk-tooltip="title: Cuenta de usuario" class="uk-icon-button uk-margin-small-right" uk-icon="user"></a>
  </div>
</div>

Here is this module:

 

I did it as you asked. However, I have no note that your design is not adapted to laptops. Have a look:

How to resolve this? E.g. make special conditions and  hide "Home" menu item and hide "View cart" text and keep just only cart icon and the sum in the top right module for laptops only.

And another problem: there is no space to display icons in mobile view:

The best way is to add user menu items in offcanvas menu. But I have no experience to work with that module which is being used on your site (Vertical menu - Offlajn). I would use Yootheme Pro core features (offcanvas) for mobile views instead of Offlajn's module.  Especially, The search function there does not working. But I can't replace this module without coordintating this moment with you.

3.  I made the following menu items (User menu):

It solves the problem with routing and now the links are correct (no longer /component/ prefix in URLs).

4. I also noticed some untranslated phrases:

It seems Spanish translation of Phoca Cart is missing or not finished.

Try to take the translation from here:

https://www.phoca.cz/download/99-phoca-cart/100-phoca-cart-component?start=20

That's all. I hope this will help you.

 

Best regards,

Eugene

amcodesign

Good morning Eugene,

Wow! You have left me impressed! There is a lot of information, if you like I'll review it all today.

Everything is as I requested!!! Thank you so much!! If... on laptops I eat a menu category, I have to fix it. If I put many categories, not all of them fit. I had thought about leaving only the drop-down mobile menu in the laptop version.

I will put a smaller mobile version in the cart, so that the other buttons can be seen as well.

And what you say about the vertical menu, Yootheme's default at the design level, is not very pleasant, but you are right, the search engine does not work and I can only activate the search engine by menu category.
I am planning to purchase a new tool from Phocacart, which works with Yootheme, Joomla and Wordpress, which has a very professional menu and fits very well with this type of ecommerce. I'll give you a link.

https://extensions.joomlapro.com/product/jp-yootheme-menu

And the strings to translate that you tell me, I'm also going to review them, I thought I already had them all.

All the best,

Alexandra

sulpher
Hello Alexandra!
You're most welcome. I am glad I could do something useful to you. Btw, there are some moments which I would recommend you to have a look:
1. Add Cookie banner to meet GDPR requirements. We use this plugin:
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/n3t-cookie-consent/

2. Some 3rd party extension loads jQuery from external resource:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>


It does not meet GDPR, would be better to load it locally (Joomla 4 has such library inside). I can suppose it might be offcanvas module (due to effects). It is not visible, I just noticed it in the code and decided to share this information with you.

Yes, we are fans of YOOtheme Pro page builder and this technology just a must-have for web developer. I would like to share some unofficial information: we work on the Phoca Cart integration for YOOtheme Pro - a user can redesign layouts of ecommerce component directly inside the page builder (the release is planned on May).

We will be happy to see your review on Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/norrnext.com
Or at the JED

Thank you in advance and have a nice day!

Eugene

amcodesign

Hello Eugene,

I have been carefully reviewing all the work you have done on my website, and I want to tell you about some
things:

1- I have entered the "my orders" page with my account and everything looks fine, except that since I do not have any
order, nothing appears, but from what I have seen it should work correctly. I have also translated all the
language strings I've seen to Spanish.

2- The "user account" page when you access everything correct, both logging in and registering.
new client. The problem appears when you enter and a whole series of information appears. Some are correct,
as it would be: Billing and shipping data, a part to modify the profile data. But further down,
information appears that should not appear, and in this case, I don't know what I have to do and how to eliminate this
part. *I attach screenshots*

https://i.postimg.cc/pTVSDY6g/part-1.png

https://i.postimg.cc/B6tdrBB2/part-2.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Kv7ssWhd/part-3.png

Part-1: My account details appear: Billing and shipping details, which is fine. It would be necessary to add the number
phone maybe. In case the client wants to modify them.

Part-2: The user profile appears, which would have to be seen so that it could be useful.

Part-3: Basic configuration appears, this should not appear, it would have to be deleted.

Can you put custom fields in the user account?

SUGGESTION: It would be very interesting to be able to combine the two pages, my orders and user account, to have
all the information in the same place. Without having to access first one, and then another to see the orders.
I tell you this as a client that I am, and the needs that may arise for all clients who use this plugin.

3- For the laptop version, I have already requested Phocacart to remove the "view cart" text from the
button to make it smaller. Also for mobile version and be able to add the user account and my orders.

4- In relation to the menu (vertical Offlajn menu) I have installed it because visually it is more pleasant than the
Yootheme's default, since I don't have any options to modify it to make it look better. Have
thought to buy the new plugin with add-ons for Yootheme, Joomla and WordPress, where there is a menu, a login,
buttons, grids, etc. I'm considering it. Do you know if the Yootheme menu is configurable? I already know about the PC
configure in drop-down mode, with images, text.

5- The routing problem that you mention has deconfigured the part of all the information about the dolls,
the other pages work correctly. I'm going to check it right now to fix it. I understand that with this
instead, the breadcrumbs will appear correctly. How have you solved this aspect?

6- The floating box that appears when you add a product to the cart already has the two "Continue" buttons.
shopping" and "Proceed to checkout" translated into Spanish. I wanted to ask you, if it is possible to place this box
in the center of the screen, I have requested it from Phocacart but they don't do it.

7- The "remove product from cart" button does not work. I also requested them to fix it, but they won't do it.

8- I already tried the Phocacart translation with the same component that you sent me, and it cannot be installed,
fails. I have looked for other options and can't find anything else.

9- I review the cookies.

10- Third party extensions that load jQuery from external resources, how do I solve this.


We are in contact Eugenio. Thank you

Alexandra

sulpher
Hi Alexandra,

I am sorry to say but all these extensive additional questions are out of what you asked about before. You asked to display two icons in the top right part of the screen.
There were no menu items related to these icons and I created them too. And wrote extra advices.
You need to read the documentation first to understand how to configure Joomla and Phoca Cart and then you can change all these settings personally. And ask questions about configuring Joomla/Phoca Cart on profile resources as forum.joomla.org or at phoca.cz/forum/.

If you have no time to read the documentation, you can purchase consulting.



With best regards,
Eugene

sulpher
Despite the fact your questons were out of support scope, several hours were spent on making custom work and writing detailed answer as we dealed. I hope to see your testimonial at the Trustpilot.

sulpher
1,5 hours were spent on questions which are out of support scope according to our deal.
I am closing the ticket due to inactivity.
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