By Kjell@r2canvas.com on

Newbie to Drupal. Can I customize the product page in E-Commerce. Need function for for upload image. Want to use Drupal for a artwork sharing site with e-commerce.

Can I use for ex. Acidfree module for the images or have anybody other ideas/solutions.....

Thanks

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rjung commented

The Drupal 4.6 e-commerce modules allow you to designate any node as a product. You should be able to simply use the image module (which allows uploading of images and descriptions) to create your products, then simply tag them as products for sale/shipping/whatever.

Unless I've somehow managed to misunderstand your question...

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Kjell@r2canvas.com commented

I have tested to use the image module and create products, this work fine for me as admin. However,I want the members to upload image into their own album and create the products by themselves, means Title, Description and Price only. If I log in as user, I will be able to upload image but not create the product at the same time. Do you have any suggestions how to solve this? Can I customize the upload/product page?

Thank you for all your help

// K

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chook commented

I think this is what the 'file' module in ecommerce is for. It allows you to upload files to your server and then submit them as a products.

go to admin - modules; check on files; then when entering a product, choose 'file download' for Type of product to create.

Hope this helps.

charles

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Kjell@r2canvas.com commented

Thank you! It was not quite what I was looking for. The members should be able to upload and create products. When they purchase we will produce the print.

/K

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wpd commented

Are the members selling these products to anyone else? Or are they just getting something printed?

You can create a custom product module that allows users to upload a file. In this case, they would not be creating a new product but ordering an existing product with the attributes specified by file/image they upload.

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Kjell@r2canvas.com commented

The members upload their images into their own album and create the products by themselves, but they have to be able to put the Title, Description and Price on their uploaded artwork, images etc. Other vistors will be able to purchase prints from members albums. We, admin, handle the payments and printing services (no downloading of files) for all members and users of the site. We, admin, require a commission from the sale.

Thank you for all help!

/K

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wpd commented

To create and manage products you need the administer products permission. The problem is that is not user based. A user will be able to modify other products (I think, I have not tried this).

It is possible to modify the products_access function so that users can only edit their own product(s).

Try assigning the administer products to your user role and see what happens. There is also an ecommerce module called stores that allows users their own mini-store, but I have never tried it.

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Kjell@r2canvas.com commented

I have changed in the 'access control' and now the members can create products after they have uploaded their images.This work fine but I need to remove/hide som fields in the product page for example we´d like to hide the SKU,'add to cart' link, type of product to create, Inventory control, availability estimate. We will only hide this In the product page, but want the possibility to use this in admin and set this as default value in the product page for the members.

Can I easily customize the product page?
I have tested all function in the E-commerce and everythings work great but still I need possibilities to customize the product page :-)

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wpd commented

You can not currently limit parts of the product creation based on user role.
It is certainly possible to do what you want, but it will be with either a custom module or customized version of the existing eccommerce modules.

If you think your feature has broad enough appeal, post a a feature request here: http://drupal.org/project/issues/5841
However, do not count on people volunteering their time to write your custom module. There is a lot of examples and help available for doing it yourself. If you do not have the time or inclination, then money is always an option for convincing people to help you.

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tille commented

I dont know if this info is still needed - since this post is about a year old - but since i stumbled upon it looking for similar info, it might eventually be also interesting for other people..

..anyways - I think I can say that I'm currently working on a similar problem by using the module nodetype (http://drupal.org/project/nodetype) which basically lets you (admin) change every node's content type to some other content type.. So I have some content type 'submittet_product' that is not 'a product' - but already contains a field called 'suggested_price' and all the other info I want..
Once a product is submitted, admin can check if everything's ok and then change the content_type of that node to the 'real' product_content_type ..which is not accessible for the submitting people any more..

..hope that helps someone..? ..helped me at least..:]

..greetz, till..

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wpd commented

In 4.7 you can convert an acidfree node to a product. I am not sure if this is true in 4.6.

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kulfi commented

I think the gallery module/standalone (http://gallery.menalto.com) enables per-user albums and sales per album. Did you look into that already?

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luxvisuals commented

I just spent a lot of time researching the download functionality for 'checkout' module for Gallery2... It appears the cart+download functionality is close but not there yet...

In Gallery2 some development might be done to merge the paypal module into the zip download module for the normal 'cart'... but it might also be a while before that happens...

Does anyone know if you can get around this problem by using gallery embedded in Drupal and then use Drupal's eCommerce module for gallery items? Has anyone tried that? I'm specifically looking for video clip 'product' sales... could you sell a gallery (video) embedded node if it was made into a product?

Thanks!

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