Lesson 4 - Entering Items, Creating Fields and Subfields

Lesson 4 Entering Items, Creating Fields and Subfields

Select the ‘computer’ store. You may like to review the previous lesson on how to display and hide subcategories.
Below the Items Edit section, you will notice there are four buttons: ‘Add’, ‘Edit’, ‘Delete’, ‘Duplicate’, ‘Search’ buttons. There is also a check box for ‘Prompt before deletion.’ We suggest that you leave this box checked.

First, we are going to show you how to add an item. Next we are going to show you how to create fields and subfields for the item.

Adding an item
To add items, at the Store Editor screen, click on the ‘Add’ button right below the Items Edit section.
Enter ‘ABC Laser Printer’ in the Item Name field.
Enter ‘500’ (numeric only) in the Item Price field. Do not include any currency unit like $.
Leave the Item ID as 18. This field allows you to enter any alphanumeric.Note the html file for this item will be itemID.html. So in this example, the final html file name for this item will be item18.html. You can link directly to this item18.html (<a href='http://www.yourdomain.com/yourstore/item18.html></a>) and allow your customers to order directly through this link without going through the storefront.
Leave the Sorting ID as 0. This numeric field can be used to sort Items.
Leave Weight blank.
Leave Special Offer box unchecked. You can use this field to indicate this is a special offer item and you would want to display the item together with other special offer items through a template. See Lesson 12 Learning how to customize your stores using templates.

Leave the Taxable Item box checked. If the item is not taxable e.g. food items in some states are not taxable, then you would this box unchecked.

New Item, New Update Item - check if you want to display these with little icons alongside them, you need to use the template commands to display these items. For now check New Item and uncheck New Update Item.
Enter ‘600’ (numeric only) in the Old Price field. This will display the old price as ~~600~~.
Click on ‘Printers’ in the ‘Category’ box to indicate you are adding this item to the ‘Printers’ category. Subsequent addition of items will be placed under this same category till you choose a different category or subcategory.

Notice you can also insert ‘Icon Image’, ‘Full Size Image’, ‘External URL’ and a ‘Short Description.’
‘Icon Image’ is displayed when the item is shown together with the rest of the items in the category.
‘Full Size Image’ is displayed when the item is shown in full view by itself. However this depends on how the templates are set up.
‘External URL’ (enter as http://www.domain.com/your_image_url ) allows your visitors to click on the link to go to an external web site which contains any further information about the item.
We are not going to enter anything in the ‘Icon Image’, ‘Full Size Image’ and ‘External URL’ fields for this exercise.
Enter ‘ABC Own make printer’ in the ‘Short Description’ field.

At the bottom of this Item screen, you will find a section where you can enter full text or description about this item. Html tags are allowed in this section. Click anywhere within this section to begin entering any information about this printer. Click on the ‘Edit Item Description in a larger window’ button if you wish to use a larger window to enter your text about this item.

The 'Item Volume Discount' is a new function. It allows you to specify the % discount based on the quantities purchased. See Chapter 6 of the User Guide section on how to use this feature.

The 'Advance' is also a new function. It allows you to specify if the item:
- out of stock - the program will not publish the item
- no shipping charge

If you wish to pause here, click on the ‘Save’ button. Otherwise, proceed to the next section of the lesson.

Creating Fields and Sub Fields
If you exited to the Store Editor screen, you can bring up the item you created in the last exercise by first clicking on the ‘Printers’ Category, then the ‘ABC Laser Printer’.
Clicking on the ‘Edit’ button at the bottom of the Item Edit section will take you to the ‘Item’ screen.

You can enter as many Sub Fields (optional) as you like. E.g. for a clothing store, you can use the first Sub Field to indicate Large, Medium and Small Sizes, then use the next Sub Field to indicate the colors of the clothing: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow & etc. The subsequent Sub Fields allow you to add a different pricing combination to your initial basic price.

We are going to create two Sub Fields. On one of the Sub Fields, we will add its own component price. We will also create one comment Sub Field that allows visitors to enter any comments.

Sub Field on the Left

In the Sub Field section on the left, enter ‘Additional Memory’ in the box to the right of the ? and click
on the ‘Add’ button.

Sub Field Option on the Right

Make sure the ‘Additional Memory’ is highlighted (selected).
In the Sub Field Option section on the right, enter ‘2 MB Memory’ in the box to the right of the ? and ‘20’ in the Unit Price field.

Enter ‘4 MB Memory’ in the box again as the second Sub Field Option and ‘35’ in the Unit Price field.
You can add an unlimited number of Sub Fields options.
E.g. 1year subscription $24, 2 years subscription $36, 3 years subscription $45 and so on.
Creating comment Sub Fields

Enter ‘Special instructions’ as the Sub Field (on the left) and click on the ‘Add’ button.
Do not enter anything in the Sub Field Option on the right. This creates a comment Sub Field and your visitors will be able enter anything they want in this field.
Click on the ‘Save’ button to save and exit this Item screen.
Duplicating Sub Fields in different Items

It is easy to duplicate Sub Fields with our Zilron Storecreator. Here we want to demonstrate how you can duplicate the ‘Additional Memory’ with its own Sub Fields and component prices to the ‘HL-1660 17 PPM Laser Printer.’

At the Store Editor screen, select ‘ABC Laser Printer’, click on the ‘Edit’ button.
Select ‘Additonal Memory’ at the Sub Fields section on the left.
Click on the ‘Copy’ button.
Click on the ‘Save’ button.
At the Store Editor screen, select ‘HL-1660 17 PPM Laser Printer’, click on the ‘Edit’ button.
At the Sub Fields section on the left, click on the ‘Paste’ button. The ‘Additional Memory’ Sub Field with its component prices is created instantly.
Deleting a Sub Field

Select the ‘Additional Memory’ Sub Field, click on the ‘Delete’ button. The Sub Field with its component Sub Field options and component prices is immediately removed.
Click on ‘Save’ button.

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