VP framework and VP Smart template
Hi Jumbo,
I will write here some errors and other features that I found till now:
1. VP smart and filtering products
- If a field is set as list or admin list the filter module returns all products (parent and child) regardless of the chosen option. This is critical in my opinion. I may have a field with a lot of options (let's say 30 or 100) and is not nice to remember all options to write them for every product. Also misspelling is a problem if the client types the option every time he ads a product.
- the filter does not filter child products if the parent is unpublished. Also critical in my opinion. Are a lot of cases where you can have a pattern unpublished parent with a lot of child products.
- If the custom fields are assigned to a Custom group type field, the filter returns no results when filtering. Also critical. If I have many custom fields I assign them to a custom group to add them in one click to the product.
- Filter does not count or filter the inherited child custom fields. In vm a custom field added to the parent is inherited by the child products but the filter does not count that field from the child. It count it only if you check the override checkbox in every field and every child. Also critical. Let's say you have 7 fields out of which 6 have the same value for parent and child. In this case you have to edit every child to check the override checkbox for every field so that the child products to count and show up in filter results.
- the multi variant field has an great option "String Customfield" where you can choose a string customfield, which is stored to the children to present the value for custom labels. It would be nice to work with VP custom filter. It is useful in many cases like colors, sizes etc. Not critical but nice to have since is a useful vm feature.
- In mobile view when filter module is collapsed it would be nice to have, beside the toogle filter button, a list of selected filters and maybe an "X" to clear them (separatedly or all at once). In mobile view if the user does not remember what he has filtered he sees the filtered options only if he toogles the filter module. Not critical but nice to have and to improve usability.
- If the user browses a category, filters something and then leaves that category, browses another let's say 5 or 6 categories where also filters products for other criteria and then comes back to first category the filter is checked for criteria that he filtered initial. Nothing wrong but in my opinion, and not only mine, at the moment you leave a category the filter should be reset if you come back to that category. Now, even if you have more then one browser tabs opened in the same site but different urls, filter something in one tab then close that tab and reopen it the filter is there checked with the option selected before closing the tab. Not critical but in terms of usability the filter should be reset when the user leaves a category. If not, the shop owner could lose some potential clients if they browsed a lot o categories and filtered in each category by different criteria.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks
regards
Cosmin
I will write here some errors and other features that I found till now:
1. VP smart and filtering products
- If a field is set as list or admin list the filter module returns all products (parent and child) regardless of the chosen option. This is critical in my opinion. I may have a field with a lot of options (let's say 30 or 100) and is not nice to remember all options to write them for every product. Also misspelling is a problem if the client types the option every time he ads a product.
- the filter does not filter child products if the parent is unpublished. Also critical in my opinion. Are a lot of cases where you can have a pattern unpublished parent with a lot of child products.
- If the custom fields are assigned to a Custom group type field, the filter returns no results when filtering. Also critical. If I have many custom fields I assign them to a custom group to add them in one click to the product.
- Filter does not count or filter the inherited child custom fields. In vm a custom field added to the parent is inherited by the child products but the filter does not count that field from the child. It count it only if you check the override checkbox in every field and every child. Also critical. Let's say you have 7 fields out of which 6 have the same value for parent and child. In this case you have to edit every child to check the override checkbox for every field so that the child products to count and show up in filter results.
- the multi variant field has an great option "String Customfield" where you can choose a string customfield, which is stored to the children to present the value for custom labels. It would be nice to work with VP custom filter. It is useful in many cases like colors, sizes etc. Not critical but nice to have since is a useful vm feature.
- In mobile view when filter module is collapsed it would be nice to have, beside the toogle filter button, a list of selected filters and maybe an "X" to clear them (separatedly or all at once). In mobile view if the user does not remember what he has filtered he sees the filtered options only if he toogles the filter module. Not critical but nice to have and to improve usability.
- If the user browses a category, filters something and then leaves that category, browses another let's say 5 or 6 categories where also filters products for other criteria and then comes back to first category the filter is checked for criteria that he filtered initial. Nothing wrong but in my opinion, and not only mine, at the moment you leave a category the filter should be reset if you come back to that category. Now, even if you have more then one browser tabs opened in the same site but different urls, filter something in one tab then close that tab and reopen it the filter is there checked with the option selected before closing the tab. Not critical but in terms of usability the filter should be reset when the user leaves a category. If not, the shop owner could lose some potential clients if they browsed a lot o categories and filtered in each category by different criteria.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks
regards
Cosmin
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