Posts Tagged ‘magento admin’

Magento: Enabling Template/Block Hints in the Admin Panel

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

If you would like to turn on Template hits and block names in the admin panel this can be quickly done via the database.

INSERT INTO core_config_data (scope, scope_id, path, value)
VALUES ('default', 0, 'dev/debug/template_hints', 1),
('default', 0, 'dev/debug/template_hints_blocks', 1);

Note, don’t forget to add your prefix if you are using one.

To turn this off once you are done, either delete these rows from the database, or set the values to 0. (If you set them to 0 you can later reactivate this by just swapping it back to 1, but the insert statement won’t work any more.

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Magento: Starting SOAP (adding a user)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

In order to get SOAP up and running you will need to add a web services user in the admin panel.

    First add a role for the user. (Roles are used to limit the permissions of the user)
    • System->Web Services->Roles->Add new role
    • Give the role a name
    • Set permissions for the role
  • Then create the user with these permissions
    • System->Web Services->Users->Add new user
    • Add information about the user (the API key is the password used for SOAP)
    • Under roles bind the user with the previously created role

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Magento: Selling string (cloth or any other item with a decimal value)

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Some items (such as string, cloth, fluids etc) can be sold in decimal values.

This example will show how to sell string in meters (price etc) but where the customer can order any length – but at least 30 centimeters.

In admin->catalog make the string as a product and under inventory set “Minimum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart” to “0.3″ and “Qty Uses Decimals” to yes. Set up the price as the price per meter.
Also please make sure that the information about the product states that the any length (over 0,3 m) can be ordered and that the price is per meter.

When the customer adds 2.5678 m in the basket, magento will calculate the correct price and show it to the customer.

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