Dynamic changing of prices !? IMPORTANT !

[Sly9er]

Hi Norman,
I tried out your suggestion about putting in a
fancier way to let people donate money in whatever
amout they want.

Number of dollars to donate <input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE value="1">

But this method puts out a script error saying that the product DO-01 has been removed.

Any suggestions?

Hope to hear from you soon - John.

[NormanRouxel]

You've a missing quote character in

<input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE value="1">


it should be

<input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" value="1">

Norman

p.s. I've just finished another big extension to Actinic that allows the price to be directly entered for a product. Thus allowing the input of a donation in any form. You can see it in operation (along with some other calculations) on:-

http://www.drillpine.biz/voilenet/ac..._Products.html

where we're calculating the cost of a curtain depending on the amount of fabric needed for it.

[pinbrook]

Norman

Did you ever release the simpler version of component summing....

I'd be interested in it..

[NormanRouxel]

Did you ever release the simpler version of component summing....

It's working now but isn't totally automatic. You have to include the option price in the description of the choice within brackets. This isn't too much of a pain as you have to tell the customer what things will cost anyway. The code looks for that and creates an array of prices which can then be used to display the total value of that product and it's selected chouces, components or permutations.

As it's quite complex it's not free, I'm afraid. No perl patching is needed just a lot of JavaScript and some major mods to the product variant templates.


Someone's already using it to sell computers where you build a system from parts and wanted the customer to see the total price as various bits were added.

Also this thread prompted me to write another big Perl extension that allows the cost of an item to be entered on the product pages.
Someone else was selling a perishable product and needed the capability for the customer to enter the price that they were willing to pay.
Instead of doing a one-off I made a general purpose extension.
A charity could use this as you could donate in whatever amount you like instead of a set number of product quantities.

This also allows quite complex calculations to be made that set the product price (where components / choices etc just can't do it). An example is bespoke curtains where the fabric is charged by area and length of edging, etc.

Norman

[Darren B]

Hi norman

i know your busy, but did you ever get any deeper into my problem? Because i use many variations for a product, although all these choices refer to a unique part number for each different variation.

if not do not worry but it would be handy for the future. I also hope actinic solve the problem of allowing customers to enter part numbers on a simple page rather than trying to find the products featured in our printed catalogue.

Cheers
Darren

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

Could you remind me what it is that you want to do please and post the URL of an example page.

Norman

[Darren B]

Hi norman

It was elier in the thread, the script you have written would not work with my set up because i have length and width to select before it gave you a price. but what you did say is you had a go at hijacking the extend info button, i use for price tables, and that you could possibly make the pop-up box show the price of the selection they have made.

I hope this helps

you also looked at http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/roofkits.html
this link is probably the esiest one to work with although this one has more variables to it
http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/16mmpoly.html

thanks for getting back to me

Darren