ebizking Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Hi, I am completely new to Prestashop, and firstly I must say it looks great. I am familiar with osCommerce and osCMax, and have been looking around for better handling of downloadable (digital) products, which I now know Prestashop can handle - though I suggest it is made a little clearer on the feature list (it does say "Virtual Goods" but another cart has rendered that confusing because to them it doesn't mean downloadable products - which it doesn't currently support.....). I sought further info and found this link http://www.prestashop.com/forum/index.php/topic,525.msg2387.html#msg2387 which doesn't seem to lead to the correct post, and the demo doesn't work with digitals as the folder isn't writable... Your download repository is not writable./home/prestashop.com/demo/download So.... my main questions are;1) When I want to add the file can I browse to it on local machine?2) Is the filename stored as part of the main table or is it in a separate attribute table?3) I see import of products is possible from CSV, does this definitely work with downloadable products (ie including the filename)?4) How do you learn the format for the CSV since there doesn't appear to be an "Export Products to CSV"? (I normally set up one product with all info, export it, and use that as a template to fill the rest in)5) Is there a field for a URL to view the product in detail (eg on its supplier/manufacturer home page)?I realise that some of this info may be "right under my nose", and if I'm missing something I apologise, but I'm not finding it so far.... thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starxox Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 I'm having the same eror message with a non demo version of prestashop eg "your download repository is not writable". Please could someone let me know which folder is the ddownload repository?Many thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starxox Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Well I figured out my part of this, turns out the folder is called download and should be in your public_html file, but for some reason I didn't have one so created one and now its all good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebizking Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Hi starxox, good that you figured your part out - I never received any replies to my queries here (nor elesewhere) and partly because of that did not go with Prestashop in the end. I'm wondering whether you are happy with it, and particularly it's handling of downloadables? Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starxox Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Yes I think you got to be prepared for a lot of detective work if you want to use prestashop. But once everything works it is good! Downloadable products are not my main products, just something for a freebie, but yes it works well enough, although like other people had an error where I couldn't upload a large file (72 megs) my other files were about 4-7 and were fine. There is a pretty easy workaround on the forum somewhere but it would be very long if you have lots of files that were big. (though someone had come up with some kind of batch file idea - not sure how that worked)So basically if you had lots and lots of downloadable products (esp at big file sizes) it would be a bit long - you could bulk upload the other details with csv tho and then just upload files separately which would be ok.But I do really like prestashop once it works, seems to make much nicer shops than zen cart anyway, and has lots of nice features, and is only set to get better!my host (vidahost) now has a thing installed where you can test out a non live copy of prestashop but with your template and database (haven't used it yet so I'm a bit vague on how it works!) but is a great thing for updating so I won't have to worry over whether to try out the new version in case it breaks my live shop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebizking Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Excellent - thanks for that! I have another site coming up soon and I shall give it another look... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starxox Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 cool, good luck! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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