:down: too bad, you have a nice clean product here but is missing something major IMO.

Hi Ted, thanks for the updates. Just noticed on the Admin page, however, when trying to approve some reviews that there's only one page of 25 products listed without the option to move onto the next 25. Is it something I've missed or is it missing?

I've attached a shot of that screen if it helps.

Hi,

I have two problems which I hope you can help.

1) Productforums.php does not load when I click on the forum enabled for reviews. I have made the changes to forumdisplay.php shown in the install file. When I tried to paste the productforum URL into the forum link in the forum manager, I get the Browse Product & Reviews page but when I click on see all reviews I keep getting bumped back to the productforums page.

2) I cant delete product categories. I get "Review ID not specified" when clicking on yes during the confirmation stage.

Great mod by the way - much appreciated.

Sorry, didnt meant that in that way, of course my license is ok. Anyway i cant update, so could you please add this feature? I do not want to spend 120$ or more for the update.

Actually, as someone who's just imported about 500 products into his install, allow me to give you some of my lessons learned:

Through some pretty easy scripting in Excel (predefining the URL to point to the product), joining some fields together and some unique items specific to my install; I was able to import all of the items in about an hours worth of research work and about a minute of actual processing work.

Doing this manually, it was taking me anywhere between 60-90 seconds per item, and that was with a copy/paste of HTML formatted data. So I saved myself atleast a half hour of data entry (and my sanity), and I've got it set up where I can throw in thousands of products in the future in quite literally under 5 minutes.

Now, that's just me - and I was not happy to look at an XML import versus a csv import which I was comfortable with. I'm sold on this method now.

I think what your issue stems from is that you have WYSIWYG data and you don't know how to capture that data with it's HTML sourcing data intact. If we could figure that out, would you try the XML import?

That's the great thing about a user, it just needs to work for you and anything else you shouldn't use.

When you make a mod things get tricky as everyone has different needs so you start with what you feel will work for the most possible people and then watch feedback to see if you were wrong.

Anything more than a stylized list won't survive the WYSIWYG which would make editing impossible for some users. Thus there's a decision to be made and when we built this mod we decided to focus on imports over copy & paste [true speed] and open areas over bulky editors [true flexibility]. That's our line, but we know it's not going to fit everyone's needs.

Again, thanks for the feedback and best of luck with your forum!

I went to the site, did a view source and grabbed the following from ln 104-125

I'm sure there are lots of ways to do it with XML feeds and alike that the owner of the site may or may not be interested in giving you access to. But a rather lo-tek way to achieve some thing similar would be to get a program to scrape the entire site like HTTrack and then scour the results looking for all instances of the data between "<!-- features tab -->" and "<!-- /features -->".

Thanks so much for sharing this.

Developing something you get to decide where you want to draw the line and while I'm sure people would like other ways to add products, I really believe that an import is the only way to go. The manual entry page is really more about formatting or reviewing an entry here and there than adding.

No matter how you do it, copy & paste thinking just doesn't scale well.

My team processes something like 10 million products [not to this mod but to a system that the mod is based on] a night from a dozen vendors all of whom format and update differently so we've become pretty familiar with every option and while we debated offering csv/tab, XML is just safer when you're dealing with rich content and an infinite number of configurations.

If you have 4.0, you have "Free updates for this version" but I digress...

The mod is already build to parse data from 4.0.x as well as 4.1.x, it just doesn't display the editor. I can't justify development hours to support a very dated version of the software but you can switch to a editor-less format by hacking the template --

Edit template prodforums_review_create

1 - Remove the javascript function from the <form> tag

2 - Remove {vb:raw messagearea}

3 - Remove <script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_ajax_suggest.js?v={vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>

4 - Add the following code and format to fit your style / width needs

We just figured you'd deal with the first 25 before any more :D

Ok, ok, that's a bug. We'll updated it soon.