problem with quantity

[aliscot]

Hi Guys,

we sell cable on our site and some people want to order say a 3m length and a 4m length but when added to cart it adds it up to show 7m.
Is there a way of getting it to show as 3m, 4m etc

Thanks

Ali

[Duncan Rounding]

To be able to do that you would need to have each length as a separate product.
Not ideal but you could perhaps add a message box for the product where the custoimer could say how they wanted it cut.

[aliscot]

Hi Duncan,

I have added a box to the cart for cable length requirements etc already but just wondered if there was any other way.
Thanks anyway

Ali

[NormanRouxel]

You could tweak the Perl so that the CombineCartLines routine does nothing. This will achieve what you want but will apply to all products. Would this be OK?

[aliscot]

Hi Norman, that should be ok, however we do have some discounts that are instigated when someone spends over £99 on certain brands, would that be affected?

[NormanRouxel]

I have no idea. You'd have to test it and see.

[NormanRouxel]

Here's the patch so you can try it yourself.

Backup file Cart.pm (in your Site folder).

Edit Cart.pm.

Look for the pair of lines (approx line 211)

sub CombineCartLines
	{

amend as below

sub CombineCartLines
	{
	return;	# don't combine

Update the site and test. Report back whether it works or not so this post will be useful to others.

You will need to re-do this patch if you update Actinic to a new version.

It should be obvious how to undo if you don't want to use this.

[aliscot]

Hi Norman,

tried it and the cart wouldn't work so tried it again and bingo! it works perfectly. Thank you very much.

Ali

[NormanRouxel]

Can you confirm that quantity dependent pricing still works if you have the approriate quantity but split onto several lines?

[aliscot]

yes, all works great. discounts etc all working as normal