Product specs

Author Message

Eirik Alfstad Johansen

Wednesday 08 October 2003 6:32:43 am

Hi,

Many products need further specification besides amount when ordered. An example is a sweater where the buyer also needs to specify size and color. Also, some of these settings might affect the final price.

So, how does one provide additional settings for a product? Is it a datatype, or what?

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Sam Wong

Sunday 12 October 2003 9:52:39 am

I asked similar question and people told me I should be using matrix datatype.

Eirik Alfstad Johansen

Monday 13 October 2003 1:06:48 am

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the tip. Have you tried it out? Do you know anything about the matrix datatype. I did an extensive search for it here at the ez.no site yesterday, but found nothing.

Thanks in advance !

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS

http://www.netmaking.no/

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Alex Jones

Monday 13 October 2003 6:49:33 am

I don't think there is a way for the Matrix datatype to affect the item added to the shopping cart. Though I hope I am wrong in that belief as it would make my life much easier.

Alex

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Eirik Alfstad Johansen

Wednesday 15 October 2003 5:47:33 am

Then what do I need to do? Considering the seemingly endless possibilites of eZP, this should be fairly easy to accomplish.

Sincerley,

Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS

http://www.netmaking.no/

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Alex Jones

Wednesday 15 October 2003 6:41:17 am

Wish I had a clean answer for you Eirik. I had to build ten different extended product forms to account for the different combinations of our products. This was rather annoying to say the least. I spent a lot of time trying to find a different solution, but had no luck.

I truly hope eZ systems increases the flexibility of the shopping cart to account for these variations. Right now the e-commerce functionality is far too focused on items that do not have variations like books, software and CDs.

Alex

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