I have installed Drupal 7.35. I added commerce modules including Ctools, Views, AddressField, Entity, Rules, etc. I have enabled the modules and they appear to be working. I added a new product, although I didn't see where to add an image. A link to the shopping cart was added to the main page navigation. But there is no link to the store or to view products for the visitor or customer or even authenticated user, or even me. The site is located at: http://witchwellenergy.com/drupal
I am using bartik theme

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Floyd

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nevets’s picture

If you are talking about Drupal commerce, it provides a page using views that can be be added to a menu.

survivaldealer’s picture

Thank you for responding. Yes, I am using Commerce. I have activated the Views UI and am unable to locate where or how to configure the store link. I did add the Advanced Help module, hoping that would shed some light, but not yet.

Can you please explain to me how I can get a link in the navigation menu to the store?

VM’s picture

the link isn't added to the menu through views. commerce provides the page to link to via a view. edit your navigation menu. add a menu link to the commerce page of your choice.

survivaldealer’s picture

Thanks for responding. I attempted to add a link to the navigation menu called "Store". It asks for a path. I tried store and products which did not work, as they are listed in the drop down as possible parents.

How can I find the path to the store? Do I need to add a path module? I was hoping it would be a little more intuitive.

VM’s picture

in views find the page view of the product display you want to link to. look at its path. use that path as the menu item path.

survivaldealer’s picture

I looked in structure->views and can find no paths except for /admin/ sub-directories. It seems like such a simple thing... I created a product, now where is it? What is the path to any product in any commerce store? Does one even exist?

I managed a MIVA Merchant store for 10 years until they cancelled the license I paid $1500 for and began charging monthly for a cloud store that was not on my server and was basically worthless. I tried other cloud stores and the problem is the same, I do not own my own store. So I went with zencart which is an open source store and I bought books and learned it and had a pretty successful store, but security is an issue and the community does not keep up with the times and the payment processors refuse most of my products because they were self defense and the payment processors hate people that are prepared and aware. So, I figured Drupal was powerful, had a large development community, was open source, and I am building a new site.

Now, I already have some time invested and such a simple thing as what is the path to the store and nobody knows. Is Commerce the wrong platform? Should I just wait for Drupal 8? If I want to send a customer to look at my products, where would I send them? I'm getting frustrated and am willing to buy some books, but in 20 years of computering, I have never run across having spent hours installing software that has no path.

What about Acquia?

If I am riding a dead horse, I better not spend any more time on it. It seems unbelievable to me that after installing all of the modules associated with Commerce, that there is not a link where a customer can access any of it. I can view my product in the admin but where is the store?

VM’s picture

when you navigate to structure -> views you are presented with a list of views no? some enabled and others disabled no?

Did you click the edit link on any of those views provided by commerce module? if no, do so. If yes, did you inspect the views for a page display? if no, do so. If yes, look for the path of that page display. Every page display has one.

As far as the rest of your rant is concerned, temper your expectations from others and spend time with the documentation of the modules in use including views.