Computing has never been static and it is clear the numerous options Cloud Computing bring to the table are just starting to be understood. It is also clear there are more decisions than ever before, and we shouldn't be drunk on the cloud. There are many things the cloud doesn't do but equally it has rightly changed the way we think about scale.
How do you choose? You need trusted help, and thi ...
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UPDATE: 2012/09/17 The development team at VirtueMart just committed our patch for this problem. So the fix below works perfectly, and when you upgrade to VirtueMart 2.0.12 it will be applied for you as part of the upgrade.
As we setup Virtuemart 2 for one of our clients they requested tax only be applied to customers purchasing in Idaho. The configuration in Virtuemart 2 under "Products" > ...
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As we upgraded a Virtuemart 2 site for one of our clients, we realized the state field in the front end user editor is not required. This is especially a problem for US sites where the state field is used to choose which sales tax to apply.
While attempting to save your address without a state will trigger a small popup, users found the address will still save successfully, allowing you to che ...
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While upgrading a site from VirtueMart 1.1 to VirtueMart 2, we found a handful of product descriptions cut off at about 1500 characters. Upon looking at the database schema, we realized the column had been changed from a text field to a varchar. In this case the varchar had a limited number of characters, a number large enough for most deployments, however in our case it was not optimal.
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As we were setting up Virtuemart 2 for one of our clients we ran into a problem. When adding products to the cart there was no popup to alert us we had added items and the cart module wasn't updated until the page reloaded.
It seemed like a JavaScript issue, so we went straight to the error console. From there depending on which browser we looked at, we saw 2 different error messages.
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