Back order message in cart

[animal dreams]

I am developing new site in V8 (first attempt) using Executive layout.

Have successfully implemented backordering when out of stock on selected products using custom condition "IsBackOrderButtonShown":

(<Actinic:Variable Name="CatalogIsSuspended"/> == FALSE) AND
(<actinic:variable name="IsOnlineOrderingAllowed" /> == TRUE) AND 
(<actinic:variable name="IsInStock" /> == FALSE) AND 
(<actinic:variable name="StockLevel" /> > <actinic:variable name="StockSuspendLevel" />) AND 
(<Actinic:Variable Name="CanBeOrderedOnline"/> == TRUE) AND 
(<actinic:variable name="SingleAddToCartButtonIsUsed" /> == FALSE) 

Now I want to use this in cart to show message for customer:

<!-- Back Order Message Added 04/02/08 -->

    <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBackOrderButtonShown%22%20%2f%3e" >

   <tr>

        <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsProductReferenceVisible%22%20%2f%3e" >
        <td width="90">
        &nbsp;
        </td>
        </actinic:block>

        <td width="280">
        <actinic:variable name="BackOrderMsg" />
        </td>
    </tr>
    </actinic:block>
<!-- End Back Order Message --> 

Test page is http://www.thaigiftstore.co.uk/acata...l_Vases_9.html

Any ideas why the message is not showing in the cart?

[jont]

How are you passing the condition through to the cart and testing it? At the moment you are just asking Actinic to see if it has been set but it has no means to know you have set this against the product and it has been clicked.

[animal dreams]

Hi Jont,

Is this because the cart is generated by Perl script?
No experience of Perl!!!

[jont]

Not especially due to Perl... you have told the product page to display back ordering message if a certain condition is met... when this product is added to the cart there is no way for the cart page to know if the product is on back order... in the cart you are currently only testing if the back order button is shown but this was on the previous screen... you need to test if it was pressed previously and that requires passing some information through from the product page to the cart page.

[Mike Hughes]

I'm just thinking about ways around this. Not sure if it would work or not.

Would it be possible to add some text to the product name, say (B) for 'Backorder' for example, and then test for that in the cart ?

In my case I link each product to an excel spreadsheet and it would be simple to add the (B) to the product name when stocks hit zero.

You could then use javascript to test for (B) and display whatever message you wanted.

Mike

[animal dreams]

OK guys. I understand the missing piece.

I was thinking of passing a message similar to info questions, Mike.

Will give it a try.

Thanks