Site Tutorials - Drupal 8
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Our TeamWorking With Hot Shop Sites
Add a new ASAP Network Brand to your site is quick and super easy. The video below will walk you through the steps.
- First you have to be logged in
- Mouse over the Commerce Tab and click the drop down that says ASAP Connector Brands
- Now Click Add ASAP Brand
- Click the brand or brands that you wish to add and hit submit at the bottom.
- You're all done :) The brand will show up on your site in minutes or an hour depending on the number of parts it has.
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Working on Your Data Sheet
If you have a limited character count for your product titles, here we go over how to implement that in your data sheet by first counting the characters in each title, then creating a formula to trim the title down.
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Download written step by step instructions (125.52 KB)Getting image urls is a lot quicker and easier of a process than using saved image files. Saved image files get risky to use, so here we go over how to instead quickly add URL’s to your data sheet.
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Download written step by step instructions (151.68 KB)Getting data sheets in various formats is frustrating and if you are not doing this every day you can find yourself not loading a brand because you can't get the file ready to import.
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Download written step by step instructions (263.48 KB)Sometimes you’ll get data sheets that have leading blank spaces in front of the contents of a box. These extra spaces will often mess up the style on your site and throw things out of whack, or even drop the item completely from being imported on your site. You might also want to merge different fields into one.
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Download written step by step instructions (225.02 KB)Here we’ll go over how to change all caps on your data sheet into proper format of the first letter of each word capitalized, and how to use the filter to edit information. You want to make sure your data is not in all uppercase, because the all caps will cause problems.
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Download written step by step instructions (139.73 KB)Rapid Fire Assistance
We have turned adding and loading brands from ASAP into a quick and simple process. This tutorial will show you how to do so in just a few minutes. To ensure quick loading and upload times, please only upload in batches a few brands at a time.
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General Site Tasks & Troubleshooting
This tutorial will go over how to delete and add slides; then how to add text, images, links, and videos to MD Silders, which are mostly used for site banners for Drupal 8.
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How to add, edit, or remove menu links from your header and footer menus.
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Working With Your Importer
This involves a lot of focus. Before starting to prep your sheet, try to make sure you are not going to be interrupted. A mistake made in your data sheet means you will be importing junk onto your site. The goal here is to make sure all necessary fields have an entry, and that all entries are valid.
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Download written step by step instructions (303.48 KB)At this point, we are assuming that you’ve already prepared your data sheet and checked for missing fields (If you have not, please watch the tutorial). This tutorial goes over mapping, tampering, and importing.
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This tutorial will go over how to create product displays for a data sheet you have just imported. These instructions will show you how to create product displays for several products at a time, instead of making them one by one.
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Working With Products & Data
How to add products individually by hand.
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Adding new product fields as taxonomy reference fields for potential search functionality.
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Changing/customizing categories using the taxonomy manager: adding, deleting, moving, nesting, merging, and running term parents afterwards to update the products.
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Here we go over how to view and process your orders, as well as add tracking numbers for shipments.
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