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[rjhodges]

Where are these options in the ‘customize’ backend?  I don’t see options for either of these from the changelog in general settings , product images, product page, etc. – can’t find them ANYWHERE:

New feature: Add option to change product variant when change product thumbnail.
New feature: Add option to disable slick slider when change product variant.

I even did a diff check on settings_schema.json between 1.05 and 1.06 and don’t see any change that would provide for these two features.  The only difference is the version line and the “Don’t change the product images of the below type:” area.

And  I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately this update does not correct the variant image switching problem AT ALL.  I did a fresh install of 1.06 – ZERO modifications to any template or even CSS and it behaves the same exact same way.  You select different colors from the drop down and it’s either the wrong image or just a blank – see attachments :

1 = correct for gold (photo of the bracelet)

2= WRONG (I have a pink square in there as a Rose Gold placeholder image)

2 = WRONG (I have a silver square in there as a Rhodium placeholder image)

4= WRONG (I have a yellow square in there as a Brass placeholder image)

I’m really at a loss here guys – this is one of the most integral parts of any shopify template.  I’m not sure how you can sell 200 copies of this thing and it doesn’t even work and that’s AFTER waiting 3 weeks for this ‘update’.  We aren’t even close to Chris’s request of displaying only variant images for the selected color option when 1.06 still doesn’t even function properly for basic variant switching.

Is this something that you guys are at some point going to actually correct or are all 200 of us on our own?

And the search function, even on your own demo is unusable – search for ‘shirt’ and the search function becomes 100% unusable to where you can’t even manually delete out the search word and do another search.  I could have rebuilt the search myself these last couple weeks but thought it most wise to wait for the pros to do it and this 1.06 is the result?  Did anyone even test the thing?

I apologize for being frustrated but come on fellas – and now the price is up to $60?  It’s just not right to be selling this if three of the most basic selling points of the template do not even function correctly : (variant switching and search) or without being a nuisance to site visitors (the subscribe pop up on every page every refresh with no control over frequency options in our backend).

Please advise as to where the two new features I started this note with above can be found within the Claue Customize backend and most importably please advise as to whether any of these issues, most importantly the variant switching, will actually be corrected in short order or if we should simply find an alternative to Claue.

Thank you.

Ryan

 

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[rjhodges]

Hey Chris –

You know, these guys must be on summer holiday.  It’s not like Harry or the others to have such significant lag between responding to posts on the forum and what’s more I even emailed Harry directly last week and haven’t gotten a reply.  In the past he has almost always responded basically immediately.  Further I see that there has been no activity on any of their boards or any of the existing threads (not just ours) in almost 2 weeks.

That said, I’m fully confident that they will eventually get back to us and release the update that they indicated was in the works.  However, have you come up with a work around in the interim? I can basically manipulate CSS and html to look any way that I’d like (my final site won’t even be recognizable as built on the Claue template) but all of the ‘fixes/improvements’ that I am waiting on involve functionality.  Worst case scenario, if I don’t hear back from Harry or we haven’t seen any activity on the boards in another week I’m going to go ahead and essentially attempt to ‘Frankenstein’ in liquid code from one or more of the free Shopify themes to, at the very least, correct the dropdown selectors and image variant issues. Whether or not it will work is beyond me at this point – manipulating and splicing in random liquid code is not my thing but I should be able to figure it out.

It’s not an ideal fix and I’m not overly excited about taking on such a task but I have WAY too much work into this theme at this point to start from scratch!  Any thoughts on your end?

Ryan

 

[rjhodges]

Hey guys, also wanted to follow up on Chris’s follow-up here?  Any timeline on a new release that corrects the variant issue?  I also posted this string in which Foster mentioned that the next update would also include popup and or search functionality that I suggested : to http://support.janstudio.net/forums/topic/1-variant-issue-seen-on-claue-demo-2-search-display-3-popup-options/

Thanks!

Ryan

[rjhodges]

Hi Foster (or Harry) – any tentative timeline on when a new version of Claue will be released with these enhancements?  Just curious.  Thanks guys. Ryan

[rjhodges]

Hey Foster,

my url is: https://www.joriebreonn.com/ and the password is 1231.

I have the addresses page coded back in but you won’t be able to see that unless you create a customer account and I haven’t had a chance to dress it up with CSS yet anyway, but it 100% works so if you want to include on future updates I’m sure other people who are building with Claue will appreaciate that!

Also pursuant to another one of my posts I have entirely removed the popup because it is just so relentless appearing on every page, every refresh…

Looks like you guys have worked out the variant issues which is awesome! So from where I’m at I eagerly await the variant updates to be released and in terms of still unresolved for me that only leaves the request for more control over the popup and cleaning up the search feature as brought up in my post the other day : http://support.janstudio.net/forums/topic/1-variant-issue-seen-on-claue-demo-2-search-display-3-popup-options/

Thanks for the reply Foster!

Ryan

[rjhodges]

okay well I figured out that this needs to be included between the <head> tags in the theme.liquid file :

{%- if template.directory == ‘customers’ -%}
{{ ‘shopify_common.js’ | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}
{{ ‘customer_area.js’ | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}
{%- endif -%}

then the https://github.com/Shopify/Timber/blob/master/templates/customers/addresses.liquid code works!

I’m going to mark this as resolved but hopefully it will stay up so just in case you guys decided not to build it into a future Claue update when others run into the same problem the solution will be here. 🙂

[rjhodges]

As a quick follow up, the entire chunk of code necessary for the customer/addresses page complete with inline JS can be found here : https://github.com/Shopify/Timber/blob/master/templates/customers/addresses.liquid – but something in our Claue theme is ‘blocking’ the JS from functioning and again, I just  have no clue what or why that is happening bc I don’t know anything about writing JS.

As a test I copied and pasted that github code block and completely overwrite the customers/addressses.liquid file in any of the free themes it works perfectly every time.  so if you could hopefully point out what could be causing the JS to not function when pasted into our Claue theme that would resolve at least this issue…

thanks again,

Ryan

[rjhodges]

fwiw, I just found what is a highly simple implementation, which I tested per the instructions on the free ‘Simple’ theme (took 90 seconds) and works perfectly but as it seems there is something out of whack with our liquid files re: swatches our template doesn’t respond to the additional bits of code…

https://help.shopify.com/en/themes/customization/products/variants/select-variants-by-clicking-images

Ryan

[rjhodges]

Hey Guys,

I am at the same point with my project and just came to the board to post and found that Chris already did a 100% accurate job detailing my exact issues:

1.  Show just thumbnails for the color variant (3 thumbnails in this example).
2.  The thumbnails are to be just controlled by the color swatches. Size swatches should not affect the thumbnail behavior or the main image.
3. I tried the Debut (default shopify template) and it works as I expect (the thumbnails behavior and main image changes just when the a color variant is changed, size variant does not affect), so I´m sure that the problem is not the product configuration/variants.

So I think we can all agree that changing the size certainly should not impact the photo shown as it does, and with my 3rd color variation (of 4) I also just get a blank as Chris found as well.

As for a potential solution to #1, which is showing ONLY the relevant thumbnails for each color variant… I am the guy, Harry (if this is you reading this), that had reached out to you before buying this template as I had purchased Claue from Themeforest in Spring 2017 – THAT version of Claue did have a means of delivering on what Chris is looking for which is only displaying relevant thumbs for each color variant.  I have looked back and it’s far too complicated for me to parse out how exactly they accomplished that and while that would be great to have again so perhaps you can talk to whomever you might know over at Tea Themes and accomplished that in their version of the template.

Anyway while that would be great, my most immediate concern is 2 fold:

1. Changing size should NOT change the images.
2. The changing should be reciprocal.  That is, when say the ‘Green’ swatch is selected it shows the green photo (obviously), but then as you use the <  > arrows on the carousel, the selector should also change on the color swatch so that the highlighted color always matches the displayed photo.  Makes sense, right?

Please advise!  Thanks in advance.

Ryan

 

[rjhodges]

awesome, thanks!

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