Cool, I guess that will be enough for most cases though. 

Now I got the members to be picked up as customers - but without names and emails unfortunately, I got them as empty lines in the customer page. And when I checked in the merchCustomer table they got blanks in those fields (loginName was correctly added though). Entered the names manually and restarted - then I saw them in the customer page. 

I noticed that one too. We're fixing it to default to the loginName if the first name and last names are not present.

Ah, I see, I do not have those fields, thought it should've taken the member name. Still wondering why it did not get my email field though?

Sounds like a good sln with the defulat to loginName, or perhaps simply add loginName to the grid? Could be useful if you have customers with the same name and need a quick way to separate them visually before opening their details.

Hi Jonas,

I added the event handler yesterday in the 1.4.0-lists branch of the repository that creates a customer and uses the Username and Email => LoginName and Email.

I've gone back and forth with the FirstName and LastName fields as they do get used on Invoices and Shipments for example. Also, since Umbraco members do not define these we face a bit of a conundrum in the sense that one of things we decided is a rule in Merchello is not to force the developer to add any fields to content types, rely on any dependencies that Umbraco does not otherwise already use or require use and Merchello specific templates on the front end.

The customer view in Merchello should allow for the email address to be clicked to edit the customer as well. However, that may have been patched after the 1.3.0 release. Adding loginName to the grid is a good idea - I'll add that as a task for 1.4.0.

http://issues.merchello.com/youtrack/issue/M-376

Hi Rusty,

First: I have custom properties in Memer Type Customer, in umbraco, as First Name and Last Name. How can they be reflected also in Metchello list of customers, since they are not being filled; only the email.

One more thing: and the addresses, how can I can I enable users to create addresses from their Edit profile section? Currently, I have the edit profile default snippet of the Umbraco.

Thank you.

kind Regards.

Hi Simon,

For the first and last name you could use an event handler on Umbraco's MemberService.Saved event.

Here's how I did it in the Bazaar starter:

https://github.com/Merchello/Merchello/blob/1.10.0/src/Merchello.Bazaar/UmbracoEventHandler.cs

For the addresses, you would use the Merchello ICustomer rather than the member. Assuming you are using the default CustomerContext in Merchello:

   var customerContext = new CustomerContext(UmbracoContext);


   if(!customerContext.CurrentCustomer.IsAnonymous) 
   {
          var customer = (ICustomer)customerContext.CurrentCustomer;

          // this will have the address collection and some extensions associated to deal with the customer's set of addresses.

         // customer.Addresses;
         // customer.CreateCustomerAddress( ...
   }

Here is how I did that in the Bazaar build:

https://github.com/Merchello/Merchello/blob/1.10.0/src/Merchello.Bazaar/Controllers/Surface/AccountOperationsController.cs

Let me know how it goes =)

Ok Thanks.

what is the Bazaar, please? Sorry, but I am new to Merchello and trying to incorporate it with a site.

The Bazaar is a starter kit with a basic store implementation.

There are two packages:

• Merchello.Bazaar.CombinedInstall - this will install both Merchello and the store front
• Merchello.Bazaar.StoreOnly - this installed only the store front but you need to have installed Merchello previously (so you can uninstall the front end without uninstalling Merchello)

The source code to the Bazaar is open and available in the main Merchello repository - Merchello.Bazaar.sln

thank you.

I will install the Store only then.

thank you.

Hi Rusty,

How can I edit the Account page for example, regarding HTML etc...and all the other pages that Bazaar installed/?

thank you.

Hi Simon

The Bazaar has a themes engine similar to Articulate. If you go to the

App_Plugins/Merchello.Bazaar/Themes folder, copy one of the sub folders to a new child with a new name.

ex. copy the "Sandstone" folder and name it "MyTheme"

/App_Plugins/Merchello.Bazaar/Thems/MyTheme.

Then go to the root Store node in the content, click the themes tab and select your theme.

You can change the views in those folders however you like. I wrote a post last week http://uditty.com/articles/archive/using-common-site-views-with-theme-based-packages/ which discusses using these sorts of themes.

Hi Rusty,

How can I make all the theme views etc... using the master layout which I had before in the View folder?

kind regards.

In other words, how can I combine the existing website, the pages that I had etc.. with the Bazaar store, please?

thank you.

I wrote a post on this the other day http://uditty.com/articles/archive/using-common-site-views-with-theme-based-packages/

It is quite complicated :/

Are there an easy way round how can I change the master page of the Bazaar views to my master page that I had before in Umbraco, before I installed merchello?

@Simon

If your Master view uses IPublishedContent it should work.

Hi Rusty,

My current master page is inherting from

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

But now, I want it to be the masterpage for both pages of merhcello, and even the other pages that I had before, which also inherts from UmbracoTemplatePage.

If I change the Masterpage to inherit from @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<MasterModel>, merchello pages will work, but the other pages will not work.

How can I manage it to work for both uses please?

thank you.

kind regards.

Hi Simon

I just did a quick test to see if IPublishedContent works, and it does.

I created a view through Umbraco named Base.cshtml and then changed UmbracoTemplatePage to UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>

 @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>
 @{
     Layout = null;
    }

  <html>
    <head>
          <title>@Model.Name</title>
     </head>    
     <body>
         @RenderBody()
     </body>
 </html>

Then in my Bazaar theme I ripped out a bunch of stuff in the Master.cshtml so it looks like

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<MasterModel>
@using Merchello.Bazaar
@using Merchello.Bazaar.Models.ViewModels
@{
     Layout = "../../../../../Views/Base.cshtml";
 }

@Html.ThemedPartial(Model, "NavBar")
<div class="container">
    @RenderBody()
</div>
@RenderSection("AdditionalScripts", false)

and it works aside from the JS I did not wire up.

In you base theme you will need to include JQuery and /App_Plugins/Merchello.Bazaar/Assets/js/merchello.bazaar.js

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