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JA Xenia II Virtuemart
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Written by MiCCAS   
JA Xenia Shopping Edition with VirtueMart integrated is now available. However you will have to do some steps to install this complicated components and some of its modules. Please follow these steps to make your site the same as the demo.

* Go to VirtueMart official website and then download VirtueMart Completed Package.
The current version at the time of this post is 1.0.9.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Components. Install com_virtuemart to your site.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Modules. Install mod_product_categories to your site.
Go to Modules -> Site Modules then find Product Categories Module.
Change the title to something shorter like Products, publish the module and set the Category display type to Link List



To have a Product menu on your menu system, go to Menu -> mainmenu and then press New module
Choose Component as your menu type and then press Next
Choose VirtueMart from the Component list, choose the menu name and then hit Save
* Now you'll have a menu item named Product and the products menu.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Modules. Install mod_virtuemart_cart to your site.
Go to Site -> Template Manager -> Module Positions. Add a position named your-cart to your site.
Go to Modules -> Site Modules then find Your Cart Module.
Set the position of the module to the newly created your-cart. You can also change the module name if you want. Publish the module.



* Now you'll have the cool Your cart module on the top right of the page.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Modules. Install mod_virtuemart_featureprod to your site.
Go to Site -> Template Manager -> Module Positions. Add a position named vm-fp to your site.
Go to Modules -> Site Modules then find Featured Products.
Set the position of the module to the newly created vm-fp.



Set the Display Style to Horizontal (1 Row)



(Recommended): Set the Products per row value to 3
Publish the module.
* Now you'll have the Featured products show on the top of the page
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Modules. Install mod_virtuemart_latestprod to your site.
Go to Modules -> Site Modules then find Latest Products.



Set the position of the module to right.
Set the Module class suffix to -lprod.
Publish the module.
* Now you'll have the Latest products show on the right of the page.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Installers -> Mambot. Install mosproductsnap to your site.
Go to Mambots -> Site Mambots, find mosproductsnap and activate it.
* Download ja_virtuemart_layout_for_xenia.zip from JA Xenia download sections and extract it to the root folder of your site.
* Go to your Administration Panel, Components -> VirtueMart.
Go to VirtueMart menu system, Products -> List Categories.
With each category, set the Category Browse Page to ja_vm_cat_browse and Show x products per row to 2.



* Now you'll have the category listing with the new style like the demo page.
 
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