23 Dec 2013
Optimizing AjaxSearch When It Has to Filter by Many TV Fields
How TV-heavy AjaxSearch setups become slow in Evolution CMS and what to do when filtering logic turns into one huge SQL join.
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Practical how-to articles, migration notes, implementation walkthroughs, and focused recipes.
20 Dec 2013
Adding Secondary Labels to Wayfinder Menu Items
How to make Wayfinder output menu items with an extra span line for short subtitles or helper labels without abandoning template control.
18 Dec 2013
Using UltimateParent to Resolve Top-Level Sections in Evolution CMS
A quick guide to using UltimateParent in Evolution CMS when you need the top-level ancestor of the current resource or another document.
17 Dec 2013
Rendering Checkbox TV Values with DocInfo and DocLister
How to turn stored checkbox TV values into readable output in Evolution CMS by combining a helper snippet, DocInfo, and DocLister.
17 Dec 2013
Creating Checkbox-Based Catalog Filters with tagManager
How to build checkbox-style product filters with tagManager in Evolution CMS and keep the filter URLs and templates predictable.
17 Dec 2013
Building AJAX Catalog Filters with tagManager and getPage
A practical pattern for building AJAX-driven catalog filters in Evolution CMS with tagManager, custom templates, and getPage pagination.
16 Dec 2013
Managing a Large Shopkeeper Catalog Without Losing Editor Control
How to keep a large Shopkeeper-based catalog manageable in Evolution CMS when you have thousands of products and frequent pricing updates.
15 Dec 2013
Building Inline Help with jQuery UI Tooltips
A lightweight frontend pattern for inline help icons and hidden helper text using jQuery UI tooltip positioning.
06 Dec 2013
Handling Small Thumbnail Variants in Shopkeeper Product Cards
How to think about Shopkeeper product cards when the small thumbnail version does not behave like the full product image.
05 Dec 2013
Building Custom AjaxSearch Configurations for Filtered Listings
How to use a custom AjaxSearch configuration file when a project needs several coordinated filters instead of one plain text query.
05 Dec 2013
Updating TV Values from Shopkeeper During Frontend Events
How an OnSHKFrontendInit plugin can inspect cart data and update related TV values, and why this should be designed carefully.
04 Dec 2013
Using splitPagination to Reshape Ditto Page Links
How splitPagination can restyle and restructure standard Ditto pagination without rewriting the whole listing layer.
28 Nov 2013
Sending HTML Cart Emails with eForm
How to configure eForm for HTML cart emails and inject item table markup into the final report message cleanly.
26 Nov 2013
Making Wayfinder Dropdown Templates Work with startId=0
How to reason about parentRowTpl, parentClass, and dropdown markup when Wayfinder builds a menu from the root of the site tree.
25 Nov 2013
Debugging eForm Report Templates That Render Wrong Data
How to diagnose cases where eForm receives a field value but the report template still renders it incorrectly or not at all.
24 Nov 2013
Using shk_widget radioimage Output Inside Ditto Templates
How to make Shopkeeper radioimage parameters render correctly when product cards are built through Ditto placeholders instead of direct TV tags.
22 Nov 2013
Building Previous and Next Navigation with DocLister
How to generate previous and next links from a DocLister result set when navigation should follow the same ordering as the listing itself.
20 Nov 2013
Understanding Checkbox TV Value Formats in Evolution CMS
A quick guide to how checkbox TVs store values and why frontend output often looks odd until the stored format is understood.
19 Nov 2013
Rendering Two JotX Blocks Without Output Conflicts
How to avoid collisions when a page needs more than one JotX block with different placeholders or output expectations.
18 Nov 2013
Building Resource Links Correctly in EvoGallery Templates
How to render gallery items so they link back to the correct resource instead of only exposing the raw image path.