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3. Settings (After Installation)

3.1 Global Store Settings
      3.1.2 Next Page Text
      3.1.3 Previous Page Text
      3.1.4 Text before number of pages
      3.1.5 Separator between next and previous page
      3.1.6 Category separator
      3.1.7 No comments text
      3.1.8 Open new windows for products in categories
      3.1.9 Number of products displayed next to categories
      3.1.10 Hide URLs when displaying product listings (only if using affiliate or other url' s)
      3.1.11 What date format should be used when displaying dates?
      3.1.13 Generated File Extensions
      3.1.14 Default Index File
      3.1.15 Generating from telnet/ssh
      3.1.16 Listings in Categories Sorted by
      3.1.17 Number of listings per page
      3.1.19 Search Method
      3.1.20 What to use when a search revealed no matches
      3.1.21 Text when a search revealed no matches
      3.1.22 Open new windows for products from search results
      3.1.23 Number of listings per page
      3.1.24 Number of product listings per page
      3.1.25 Number of product listings per page when searching
      3.1.26 What's New & Top Hits Settings
      3.1.27 Number of products to display on What's New page
      3.1.28 Number of products to display on Top Hits page
      3.1.29 New & Popular Indication Settings
    
3.2 Text Configurations
3.3 Extra Field/Key Settings

Overview

Once StaticStore has been installed, you may want to change the way in which your store operates. If you do not understand some settings explained here, don't worry. At a later stage when you are more acquainted with StaticStore, you'd most likely come back to this section and tweak StaticStore to your needs with the various settings and options it provides you with.

Click on the 'Settings' tab in the control panel to set the settings & options.

3.1. Global Store Settings

General Settings

3.1.5 Separator between next and previous page:

This separator will be used when for example the text 'Next Page' and 'Previous Page' are displayed next to each other. Example: Next Page | Previous Page

3.1.6 Category separator
 
This is the separator used when displaying the current location of where the end-user is currently residing.
Examples:
Top : Entertainment : Movies : By Genre : Action
Top >> Entertainment >> Movies >> By Genre >> Action

3.1.7 No comments text

Each product has the option of having comments that is also referred to as reviews. When end-users view comments and there is no comments available for the product then this text will be displayed.

3.1.8 Open new windows for products in categories
( Only applies if URL's are entered as in the case of affiliates )

When this is set to 'Yes', products residing in the categories will open in new windows when clicked.

3.1.9 Number of products displayed next to categories?

If set to ‘Yes, then the number of products will be displayed next to categories in brackets when subcategories are listed in categories. This setting only affects the display of the pages displayed to end-users and has no effect in the control panel.

3.1.10 Hide URLs when displaying product listings
( Only applies if URL's are entered as in the case of affiliates )

If set to 'Yes', URLs won't be visible when end users browse categories or search for product listings. (URLs won't display in the status bar of the browser) and the URLs will not be able to be harvested by site rippers and crawlers. Note that if this is set to 'No', that hits won't be counted and will not show a number of 'Hits' within your templates ( we suggest not hiding url's and removing the !!hits!! from your templates ). When this is set to ‘Yes’ then all URLs in the search engine will have a URL that looks like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/staticstore/go.cgi?id=234

3.1.11 What date format should be used when displaying dates?

Choose a date format. This date format will be used when displaying all dates when end-users use your search engine.

HTML File Generation Settings

3.1.13 Generated File Extensions All HTML files that are generated by StaticStore will have the file extension specified.

3.1.14 Default Index File

This is the first file in any generated category that will be loaded when no file name was given to access a category. Other index files can be for example, index.htm, default.htm, etc. Web servers are usually configured to load up a default file when no file was specified in the address bar of a web browser. The web server will for example load a default index file if the following URL is loaded in a browser:
http://www.yourdomain.com/somewhere/

3.1.15 Generating from telnet/ssh

If this is set to ‘Verbose’ then build details will be shown in the console when generating HTML files from telnet/ssh. If it is set to ‘Silent’, then no details will be displayed in the console when generating HTML files. The ‘Silent’ setting can come in handy if you generate HTML files via Unix Cron.

Also see:
6.1 How to run a static store
6.1.1 Generating the HTML files from the admin control panel
6.1.2 Generating the HTML files from Telnet or SSH
6.1.3 Using cron to generate your HTML files on a scheduled basis

Category Listing Settings

3.1.16 Listings in Categories Sorted by
You may choose one of the following options.

Price
Products are listed/sorted by ascending order of Price in categories when generated.

Popularity
Each vote, hit & rating receives a score and the product listings with the highest scores are listed first.

Alphabetical
Product listings are alphabetically listed in categories

Hits
Product listings are sorted from most hits (clicks) to least hits

Votes
Product listings are sorted from most votes to least votes

Ratings
Product listings is sorted from highest to lowest rating

3.1.17 Number of listings per page

This setting is used to determine what number of products should be displayed on a ‘per page’ basis inside categories when end-users browser your store.

Search Settings

3.1.19 Search Method

StaticStore's Relevance Formula
Higher accuracy than FULLTEXT searching but requires more resources than MySQL's FULLTEXT searching.

MySQL's FULLTEXT Searching
Faster searching with larger amounts of products and highly recommended for stores with tens/hundreds of thousands of products.

3.1.20 What to use when a search revealed no matches

Use and display the template called 'nomatch.html'
Use this to display the ‘no match’ template. You can customize this template to explain to end users that the keywords they are searching for was not found and that they should try to use more or different keywords. Recommended

Use the template called searchres.html with the 'no match text below'
Use the default search template and only display a message to end users.

3.1.21 Text when a search revealed no matches

If you have chosen to display a message to end-users when their searches did no reveal any matches, then this message would be displayed to them.

3.1.22 Open new windows for products from search results

Set this to 'Yes' if you would like products to open in new windows when clicked from the search results. ( Only applies if URL's are entered as in the case of affiliates )

3.1.23 Number of listings per page:

This setting is used to determine what number of products should be displayed on a ‘per page’ basis when displaying search results.

Control Panel Settings

3.1.32 Number of product listings per page

This is the number of products that will be displayed on a ‘per page’ basis when browsing categories via the Store Manager in the Control Panel.

3.1.33 Number of product listings per page when searching:

This is the number of products displayed in search results on a ‘per page’ basis when using the built-in search functionality of the Control Panel.

3.1.34 What's New & Top Hits Settings

These settings affect the way in which the ‘What’s New’ and ‘Top Hits’ page displays works.

3.1.35 Number of products to display on What's New page

If you specify 20 for example, then the 20 latest additions will be displayed in your ‘What's New’ page.

3.1.36 Number of products to display on Top Hits page

If you specify 20 for example, then the 20 products that had the most 'hits' or clicks will be displayed in your ‘Top Hits’ page.

New & Popular Indication Settings

3.1.37 Would you like to display a 'New' Graphic next to products that is considered to be new?

If this setting is set to ‘Yes’ then each product displayed in your store will receive a ‘New’ graphic if it is considered to be a new addition to your store. Note that you will need the variable !!new!! inside your product listing templates for this to work.

3.1.38 How old should a product be where it will receive a 'New' graphic indication for graphic new1.gif?

This setting is only applicable to the graphic new1.gif

3.1.39 How old should a product be where it will receive a 'New' graphic indication for graphic new2.gif?

This setting is only applicable to the graphic new2.gif

3.1.40 How old should a product be where it will receive a 'New' graphic indication for graphic new3.gif?

This setting is only applicable to the graphic new3.gif

3.1.41 Would you like to display a graphic 'Pop' (Popular) Graphic next to products that is considered to be popular?

If this setting is set to ‘Yes’ then each product displayed in your store will receive a ‘Pop’ graphic if it is considered to be a popular product. Note that you will need the variable !!pop!! inside your product listing templates for this to work.

3.1.42 How many hits/clicks should a product have received before it is considered as being popular?
  
If any product inside your store has this number of clicks, then it will receive a Popular graphic.

 

3.4 Extra Fields/Keys Settings

These are settings available if you created extra fields/keys at the installation time of StaticStore.

Overview of what options can be changed with the fields available:

Descriptive Name: This is the descriptive name of extra fields/keys. The descriptive name describes the field/key and the descriptive name is always available in the control panel to describe extra field data.

Visible in the Control Panel: If this setting for a field is set to ‘No’, then the field that has been set to this setting will not be displayed in the control panel with it’s data. This setting comes in handy when you have extra fields that contain large amounts of text.

Not Available Text: In the event where a field has no value, then this text will be displayed. This is valid when displaying products in the control panel and when displaying products to end users.

Also See:
1.2.1 Extra Fields/Keys
1.2.2 How to add extra fields/keys at setup/installation time