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I’ve actually had trouble with this for quite some time. I’m using the commerce extension for TYPO3 for a site. The plan is to turn the site into an e-com site eventually, but starting of with plain product listings so I thought I’d give the commerce extension a shot. It’s quite comprehensive. Amongst a lot of things it has a good internal structure to allow all kinds of variants of an article – especially suitable for things like textiles where you have a combination of color and sizes making an article.

One big downside I feel currently is the template setup. It’s heavily templated, but still not really as flexible as I’d like. Could be a competence/knowledge issue – but nah! I’m smart! really..

However I’ve had some real troubles showing the prices. Really. Seems so basic, but I just couldn’t get into it. Today I logged into the #typo3 channel @ freenode irc. Thanks to friendly help from PiMB there I got it working. It all had to do with setting the currency. I ended up with this in my TS:

The default for ..pi1.currency was – “currency” – and not a real currency – like SEK or EUR. That’s all. the other FE commerce plugings actually has EUR as default.

Anyway. by this post I’d like to state that the open source community is (at least around TYPO3) very friendly and helpsome. – and – thanks PiMP for the hint

The site – still in a bit of progress (have some wierd positioning in the templates) – can be found here (swedish) http://www.byylva.se/. High quality carpets and other textiles

cheers. And a happy new Year!

As soon as Adobe CS4 was released we got our hands on it. Since I’ve been doing quite a lot Flash things lately I was hoping the new version would reveal some greate new features. However after trying it for couple of weeks now, I can only summarize the experience as; grumpy. To begin with Flash crashes for me when opening most of my old cs3 files, doesn’t recognize an old flash project file (.flp), crashes totaly if I’m to fast clicking around (hey.. it’s fun to click around with the mouse). The last behaviour is the same for the other nifty tools such as Illustrator and Fireworks.

They die right in front of me leaving me with a broken (long-time-since-last-save) file. Some say it’s about fonts, some say it’s about somethingelse. I saw someone who solved it by buying a new computer..

I contacted Adobe in for the subject, posted an error report and gave them full dumps of my machines current state.. getting the reply to go through a bunch of help yourself links with twenty steps each! Things like that make me grumby.

Anyway.. I’ve tried reinstalling the entire CS4 premium package (uninstall and install taking for ages) without success.. and yeah. one last thing.. Acrobat reader now crashes if I try to open a pdf link within the (a/any) browser. Thanks..

regards,
A grumpy web developer