Configuring the Module Recommended Products PRO for OpenCart

1. Installing the “Recommended PRO Products” module

To install module“Pro”Recommended Products For OpenCart you need:

1. Go to the site administration panel and select the “Add-ons”->”Modules”:
2. In the list of modules that opens, select “Recommended PRO Products” and click the “Install” button:
3. Go to the “Add-ons”->”Add-ons Manager” section and click on the “Update” button in the window that opens.

This completes the installation of the module and you can proceed to editing the module settings.

2. Edit module settings

To edit module settings, go to the site's admin panel and select the “Add-ons”->”Modules” section. In the list of modules that opens, select “Recommended PRO Products” and click on the “Edit” button:

After that, a window for editing module settings will appear on the screen:

The “General” tab is used to configure the following settings:

• Status. In order to connect this module to the store, in the “Status” field, select “Enabled”:
• ​Name. This field is used to enter the name of the module. For example, let's create a module that will display recommended products in the product card, with the name “Recommended products for the product card”:
• Fill at the place of use. This module allows the user to set up a block of featured products on their own: select the block title, output template, products to be displayed in the block, the number of recommended products.

In order for the user to be able to configure this block on their own, in the “Fill at the place of use” field, select the “Disabled”:

In this case, the “Title”, “Template”, fields and the “Tabs” tab, with which you can select the necessary products for display in the block:

If, however, in the field “Fill at the place of use” select the “Enabled” value, the module will automatically generate a list of recommended products depending on which page this block will be displayed on.

In this case, on the module settings editing form, the fields “Title”, “Template”, as well as the tab “Tabs” will not be available to the user for edit:

For an example, let's set up the “Recommended Products” block ourselves. To do this, in the “Fill at the place of use” field, select the value “Disabled”:

• Title. This field allows you to add a title for the block that will display the recommended products in all store languages ​​(in this case, for English, Russian and Ukrainian). For example, let's add the block heading “Recommended Products”:
• Template. Using this field, you can select the required template for displaying a block of similar products. The “Products Featured PRO module for OpenCart  supports three templates: “Default-template”, “list-template” and “Slider-template”. For example, choose the template type “Default-template”:​

The “Tabs” tab is designed to select products that will be displayed in the “Recommended Products” block.

This module allows not only displaying a certain number of recommended products in a block, but also creating tabs with recommended products that can be placed in a block.

For example, let's create a tab that will display women's shoes in the recommended products block. To do this, enter the name of the tab “Women's shoes” and click on the button “Add”:

As a result, a form for setting up the tab will open:

This form is intended for setting the following parameters:

• Status. To display the tab in the block of recommended products, in the field “Status” select “Enabled”:
• ​Order. Using this field, you can set the order in which tabs are displayed in the block. For example, let's set the tab display order to 1. This means that this tab will be displayed first in the featured products block. recommended/18.png" style="margin: 10px; width: 512px;" />
• The name of the tab. This field allows you to add the name of the tab, which will be displayed in the recommended products block, in all languages ​​of the store (in this case, for English, Russian and Ukrainian). For example, let's add the name of the tab “Women's shoes”:
• ​To set the required sizes of images of recommended products, you must specify their width and height in the appropriate fields:
• Products. This field is used to select products that will be displayed in the “Recommended Products” block on the created tab. To add products to the tab, enter the name of the required product:

This module allows you to display any required number of recommended products. For example, let's add four products:

To remove a product from the tab, click on the delete button next to the product name:

Important!!! After adding all the changes, you must click the “Save” button:

After saving the module settings, go to the site administration panel and select the section “Add-ons”->”Modules”. The module appeared in the list of modules “Recommended products PRO-> Recommended Products for Product Card”:

Now, this module can be connected to any page of the site. To do this, go to the site administration panel and select the section “Design”->”Schemes”. In the list of schemes, select the scheme to which you want to add the “Recommended Products” and click on the “Edit” button. For this example, let's select the schema “Product”:

In the scheme editing window, click on the “Add module” button:

In the list of modules, select “Recommended products PRO->Recommended products for the product card”, in the “Location” column, select the desired location of the block and set the sort order :

After making all the changes, click on the “Save” button:

As a result, after adding the module to the “Product” schema, we get the following product card:

In this example, a single tab has been created that displays recommended women's shoes. To see how the block of recommended products, which contains several tabs, will look like, let's create another tab: .png" style="margin: 10px; width: 996px;" />As a result, after adding another tab, we get the following product card:

Another tab called “Laminate” has been added to the block of featured products. When you click on this tab, the corresponding recommended products will be displayed in the block:

Thus, you can add an unlimited number of tabs to the featured products block.