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RoyRubin - 06 March 2008 06:22 AM

A full user guide book is in the works. We expect it to be published in May.

Roy, ‘publish’ as if I can hold the book in my hand?

While I am not a fan of PDF ebook, I wouldn’t mind to spend $10 or $20 for a Magento e-guide book now

iblastoff - 12 March 2008 05:01 PM

Liam - 12 March 2008 02:45 PM

RoyRubin - 06 March 2008 06:22 AM

A full user guide book is in the works. We expect it to be published in May.

No offence but this is a bit of a ludicrous response. May? Are you serious? I too have got magento working, have created a couple of products, have watched a few screencasts (that’s videos to everyone else) and have fiddled for some hours in the backend trying to find whatever it is that may be necessary to switch on in order to get the frontend working. No joy. I simply don’t know how to see the frontend. And you say we’ll have to wait till May before we can find out info that would take someone knowledgeable with the system 15 mins to put together in a page and a half?

I appreciate the work you’re doing and the potential quality of the product you are offering. Nevertheless you are wasting an awful lot of people’s time by telling them to download magento and expect it to work ‘out of the box’. For those of us who are not programmers but have some technical proficiency the lack of clear explanations is the single greatest barrier to entry for the vast majority of people into the open source movement. Cop on and put together a few pages - say 4 - which will take yourselves between 1 and 2 hours to put together and which outline the system in a way that is useful to what you programmers generally refer to with some contempt as ‘newbies’. Thank you.

please tell me you’re joking. the screencasts themselves should have been more than enough to get you started and ‘see’ your products on the frontend. i am far from an expert programmer and i seem to have no issue figuring it out. its not a big secret!

what exactly are you even looking for? i dont know why you’re hammering on and on about some exact step by step guide when not everyone would even be going through the same steps. not everyone is going to have configurable products. not everyone is going to be using all the various modules included in magento. if you expect someone to write a guide exactly for your needs then think again.

honestly, just go through the screencasts. its not that hard. if you’re still having issues following extremely simple screencasts, then perhaps its time to revisit your own skill set. honestly it sounds like you haven’t even gone through a single wiki article, screencast, knowledgebase or even the multitudes of threads on this very forum.

So you prefer to write 3 paragraphs berating me rather than say “go here, do that, click that and then that. Voila”. Jesus.

I too am wondering how to get my categories to show… other than just homepage…

I watched the screen cast about layered navigation.. nothing there.

For all those who have uploaded categories and products and are getting an empty homepage - I had exactly the same problem yesterday and it was solved in this thread:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/5111/ (posts #4 & #6 by Moshe are the ones that solved the prob)

Magento team - great work on this app and congrats on the first production release - but judging by the number of early posts here with this same problem I think this needs looking at fairly urgently.

cheers

Jason
MyCommerce

Thanks mycommerce… the thread didn’t fix my problem, but now I know why im having the problem im having…

I deleted the default category as I thought it was just an example… re-creating it does not work… so what now?