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FLEXIBLE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Emporium Plus > Software > New for Merchant 5
Emporium Plus > Software > User Interface Modules
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Quantity in Basket: none
Code: 1AA00084
Merchant Version: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x and 2.2x
User Interface: OpenUI only if version 4.14-4.24
OpenUI Tokens: compiled OpenUI v4.74+
CIM Tool Kit: no
Combo: yes
Price:
$15.00
Latest Version: 5.003
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Add additional field data within the product narrative
description. This data will appear on the screen as if
it is in a separate field, but is really just part of
the narrative memo field. This MIVA Merchant version 2.22,
3.x, 4.x, or 5.x module handles the
parsing so that the customer only sees the data in the
appropriate places. Currently this module is only available for the
OpenUI interface (if using 2.x-4.x Merchant) and requires no module editing. However, a competant mivascript developer could easily
modify their mmui.mv to incorporate this module's code in a non-OpenUI store. As an
example, this code has been incorporated into the mmui.mv in this
Merchant store. In Merchant 5.x the module's tokens are inserted in the page templates that you want to use the module's features.
No modification to the products database structure is
required. No additional databases are required to support
this additional data. The additional data is added
into product records just as any other product data, through
admin or via flat file import. This provides easier
code maintainability and faster data access. Since the
data is stored within the product narrative description
field, that data is immediately available to the standard
Merchant search function with no code modification. This is the simplest way to display
additional data in the product and category screens as if
it is in separate fields instead of just narrative data. By
doing this, the data stands out as name - value pairs, eg
Author: Hemmingway.
An added benefit is that you can have within your store products with different
types of additional field data. Some products might need
additional fields such as author, publisher, and date while other
products might need fields such as composer, vocalist, and
country of origin. This software product is an example of such a situation. Most of
the products in my store are movie posters and contain additional fields
related to them. That field data is stored in separate fields and maintained
via prodmore (module for importing additional field data into separate
fields). While this product record contains those same additional fields (naturally they are empty),
I have added four fields via Flexible Product Description, which only appear in
this product record. You can see them as Merchant Version, User Interface,
CIM Tool Kit, Combo in the CTGY and PROD screens. In a Merchant 3.0 and newer store,
they can also appear in expanded product display screens for SRCH and PLST.
The 4.x compiled version is compatibile with the OpenUI Tokens and Viking
Coders product template module. Place the additional field data
on the product page so that they better fit your desired look.
Pseudo-fields, brief and keyword, can be used by Static
Catalog Generator to improve search engine ranking for both
the static html and dynamic MIVA Merchant pages. See the
install notes for details.
In Merchant 5.x we've added the ability to display a substring of the product description. This is useful on the category page where you might want to display just the first 200 characters of the description.
 Online overview
and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules.
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Average Customer Rating
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Number of Raters: 3
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Reviewer: Mike in Mt. Pleasant, United States 12/19/2008
With no limit on the amount of characters used in each pseudo-field, this allowed me to include lengthy HTML statements without the overhead of slowing down my store's database. Phenomenal work, Bill!!!
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Reviewer: Jason in New Port Richey, United States 12/23/2005
This works EXCELLENT! Now I can add extra fields with STOREMAN. This is going to save me time and money. I highly recommend this.
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