OXID allows for 2 criteria for date-calculations upon which product sorting and filtering is based. This is governed by the configuration variable “Calculate newest Products by Date of Creation”, reachable under:
Master > Core-Settings > Settings > Products > “Calculate newest Products by Date of Creation (otherwise by Date of last Change)”.
On product-detail pages, it is possible for the shop admin to show which other products , other customers of a particular product also purchased. The number of such “suggestions” could be very large, especially if there are a group of top-selling products in the shop.
You can limit the number of such suggested production on a product-detail page under Master Settings > Core Settings > Settings > Products, as seen below:
OXID is an e-Commerce system that has been built with plenty of search-engine-friendly features in mind. Meta-tag descriptions are a common method to influence the way search-engines catalog individual pages in web-sites. There are 3 ways a shop-owner/admin can influence meta-tags of their product pages.
It is possible to specify meta-tags to category-listing pages under the SEO tab of individual category-editing pages.
Each article can individually be supplied with meta-tags.
CMS pages can be supplied with meta-tags as seen below:
For enabling site-wide Meta-tags, please see Changing Default Meta-Keywords and Meta-Descriptions.
By default, the number of products included within a particular product category are shown in category-menus. This can be deactivated from /admin/. Follow:
Master Settings > Core Settings > Perform. > Enchanced Performance Settings > Display Number of contained Products behind Category Names
Under Categories, you will find a section which allows to select a specific column from OXARTICLES table to sort ascending or descending. This can be found underAdminister Products > Categories > Main > Fast Sorting.
All too often it is necessary to assign a sorting index to products within categories, so that they appear in a specific order in category listings (list.tpl). OXID does provide a facility for this, though not a very friendly one!
In order to start finding your way to product-sorting in any particular category, select the category and then the Sorting tab as shown in this screen-shot (follow the numbers serially).
Notice first that at 4 it says Sort Categories, which infact should be called Sort Products. Click that button, in order to open a classical OXID AJAX drag-and-drop popup-slider as seen below.
Once you are done sorting all products from the left to right panes, save the new sort-order. The sorting-order on the right is hereafter reflected on the shop front-end.
Why is this user-unfriendly? Notice that if you wish to change the sorting order of individual products, you will have to Delete Sorting, and completely start over again!
If you are using ERP back-ends to populate (which is usually the case for shops with large number of products) the OXID product-catalog, you may update the database table oxarticles, column OXSORT in order to influence the sorting order of products in specific categories.
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