Hi all
Something I thought I would share quickly. I often use Viart for customers that will be using only a very small percentage of all its features. Because I know a large number of what it offers are going to be totally outside of the scope of their knowledge and usage I nowadays like to hide as much of what is not needed as possible from the CMS.
A key part of this is hiding whole tabs; specifically within the product properties page which is without a doubt one of the most accessed parts of just about any viart shop admin.
I always find I dont need half the properties inside the properties page and half the options just provoke unnescesery questions and confusion in the mind of my clients.
So to hide a whole tab, within Viart 4 (I think this is different in viart 3.x) you need to just do the following:
Go into templates/admin_product.html and look through the file. You'll see DIV wrappers that wrap around the entire contents of each tab. So for example, if I want to remove the whole downloads tab I need to find the part that starts...
<div id="data_downloads" style="{downloads_style}">
Now just updated this to read
<div id="data_downloads" style="display:none">
Next just update the related PHP file in your admin folder...
admin/admin_product.php
Now locate the comment "// set styles for tabs". Under here just remark out the line relating to the the corresponding tabs your hiding. In the example below im hiding a whole host of them....
// set styles for tabs
$tabs = array(
"general" => array("title" => PROD_GENERAL_TAB),
"desc" => array("title" => "Description & SEO Properties"),
/*
following tabs will be hidden
"quantity_prices" => array("title" => QUANTITY_PRICES_MSG),
"images" => array("title" => IMAGES_AND_APPEARANCE_MSG),
"points" => array("title" => POINTS_AND_CREDITS_MSG),
"other" => array("title" => PROD_NOTES_TAB),
"recurring" => array("title" => PROD_RECURRING_TAB),
"downloads" => array("title" => ADMIN_DOWNLOADABLE_MSG),
*/
"stock" => array("title" => STOCK_AND_SHIPPING_MSG),
"special_offer" => array("title" => PROD_SPECIAL_OFFER_TAB),
"notifications" => array("title" => PROD_NOTIFICATION_TAB),
"sites" => array("title" => ADMIN_SITES_MSG, "show" => $sitelist),
"subscriptions" => array( "title" => ACCESS_LEVELS_MSG, "show" => $has_any_subscriptions),
// "icecat" => array( "title" => "ICECat", "show" => true), // TODO: icecat
);
I hope this helps someone?!
