Is there a way of sorting the products on the products listing page? ie a dropdown menu you can choose to sort by manufacturer, price, code, sales, name etc. I have added a lot of products but they are in no particular order so it just looks really unprofessional.

Hi,
 
Unfortunately, at present there is no possibility to sort products by manufacturer, price, etc in ViArt Shop. The only way is to create categories and subcategories and put products there.
 
With regards,
ViArt Support Team
 
 

Actually, it is possible, but not through the admin panels. I had asked this a while ago as a support request. I want my products always sorted by product name, and trying to accomplish this manually is ridiculously labor intensive.
To do it automatically, edit block_products_list.php and change these lines
 
Change
$sql .= " ORDER BY i.item_order ";
to
$sql .= " ORDER BY i.item_name ";
 
 
There were 2 occurrences, one on line 299 and one on line 345. This was at ViArt 2.6. I've not customized my test copy of 3.0 yet, so it may have moved, but the idea is the same.

Hi,
 
We have issued the latest 3.1 version which makes is possible to add/hide sorting for products by editing appropriate settings in CMS. You can download the latest version from here: http://www.viart.com/Free_Evaluation_Download
 
With regards,
Anjula
ViArt Support Team

The 3.1 install package /docs/README file says to look at the /docs/CHANGES.TXT to see what's new. It hasn't been updated since the 1.5 to 2.1 upgrade. Can you please update that file each time so we know what is included? Thanks.

Hi Abi,
 
Thanks for your notice. We shall correct information included in these doc files.
 
WBR,
ViArt Support team
 

One more thing.
 
At present you can visit our online manual which covers the majority of changes between releases.
The link is http://www.viart.com/changes_log.html
 
WBR,
ViArt Support Team