Hi AprilPh,

You can do this with Chameleon - no need for MetaMod.

You can use 2 rules to do this.
Use the rule you already have as the 2nd rule.
Create a new rule which you will move to position #1 so it occurs before the existing rule.
In the new rule, enter the start time as "monday 00:00" and end time as "monday 23:59", and in the Succeed action unpublish the menu item.

So in the 1st rule you are saying "on Mondays, remove the menu item"
In the 2nd rule you are saying "on any other day of the week, if it's not between 11:00 and 16:00 then remove the menu item"

That should do it!

You're welcome - I'm glad this is working for you. Thanks for reporting back.

Best regards,
Stephen

Hi,

One of the Chameleon actions for VM is that you can set VM to "Catalog mode". This removes all cart functionality but keeps the products on display. Could that be a useful option?

In order to provide an "offline" message you could either use MetaMod to display a module for the given time frame, or with Chameleon you could do a "find and replace" action on the page to add some Offline text.

E.g. you could make a module that contains the text {offlinetext}, then in Chameleon you do a find-and-replace for {offlinetext} and replace it with a blank string if it's within the opening hours, or "Sorry we're offline" (with appropriate HTML if required) if it's not within opening hours. You will be able to put these in the existing succeed and fail actions alongside the other actions performed during those periods.

Cheers,
Stephen

Hi,

you can easily make a Chameleon rule (actually pair of rules) similar to your existing ones, that in addition to checking the time, also uses the "Components" section in a Chameleon rule to detect com_virtuemart. In the Succeed and Fail actions for each rule, do the find-and-replace to show/hide the warning message as described earlier.

Actually an improvement on the original idea would be instead of putting a token like {offlinetext} into the module, use an HTML comment like <!-- offlinetext --> and do the search and replace on that. Then you don't need to put in a Fail action to convert it to a blank, as it won't show up in the output anyway since it's an HTML comment.

So your 4 rules would be:

1 - Is it a Monday? If so remove menu item. Continue to next rule.
2 - Is it between 11-16:00? If NOT, remove the menu item. Continue to next rule.
3 - Is it a Monday AND com_virtuemart page? If so, replace <!-- offlinetext --> with some actual offline text. Continue to next rule.
4 - Is it between 0:00-11:00 AND com_virtuemart page? If so, replace <!-- offlinetext --> with some actual offline text.
5 - Is it between 16:00-23:59:59 AND com_virtuemart page? If so, replace <!-- offlinetext --> with some actual offline text.

I think that should work as expected.