Another question for those who have done ecomm in FarCry: did you create a price type, and what interface did you make to create/edit prices associated with objects? (i'm talking multiple prices for a single product... like multiple colours options for a jumper)
MJS: What we did (are doing) is extend the dmHTML type. Essentially, the dmHTML has become dmProduct. Since a product on a site is not more than a standard page with an add to cart an options, this seemed the most logical approach. The dmProduct has a few steps in it for pricing and options. On the pricing the pricing front we allow for things like retail, sale and for flags for taxable (uses another type), wholesale (uses a whole pricing table), an a slew of extended information. Options, are attached similar to images with the ability to use radio, checkbox, pulldown, etc. There is some more stuff in there, but since we are not done, I do not know it all yet. In short dmProduct is a PLP with a lot of steps. What is cool is that using FarCRy for ecom allows us to use things like recommended content for recommended products and custom rules for really good product site marketing. With friendly URLs the site is then well indexable!!. >From what I can tell, you'd need separate lists for products and prices in a custom tab (similar to brendans photo gallery). MJS: I am not sure why? Pricing fro us is directly related to a product. We do have other PLPs that we use for attaching discounts, coupons, etc to augment the prices associated with each product. Side note, we are not building anthing as a custom type, but rather in the farcry_core I would like to make it so you could add prices to a product by editing the product (which would seem most logical). Can you do this sort of thing with a custom PLP or could you use the tree, and create price objects as descendents of the product? (which would also seem logical). MJS: Yup, this is our current path. We expect to be done in about 8 weeks (Sorry, it is a backburner project as we complete current projects). The trickiest part of all this is building the routines for order management. So much stuff to do, but when done it will be very robust. (Too many crappy CF ecom apps out there.) > Also, I have heard it hinted that you can auto-thumbnail dmImage objects > with the ImageJ plugin . Any hints on how I'd go about > enabling/implementing this? MJS: Try http://farcry.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=B54EFE07-D0B7-4CD6-F9384192E5D18D97 on the Custom Type walkthrough -- Regards, Michael J. Sammut ____________________________________________________________________ F O U R E Y E S P R O D U C T I O N S think | plan | create :: web site design & development :: NYC E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | T: 718.254.9557 ext. 101 | F: 718.254.0399 W. http://www.foureyes.com "Tim Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Brendan: when can we look forward to the walkthrough on custom PLPs you > hinted towards in your custom type walkthrough. > > BTW for anyone who hasn't followed Brendan's walkthroughs closely, > there's a lot of FarCry best practices in there that everyone should be > noting down. > > On that note, and riding on the back of the worlds current obsession > with design patterns, I think we should compile a list of FarCry best > practices. Just a description of a specific problem, the best way to > solve it and why. Maybe we could post the problem, and allow mailing > list members to post the answer (and multiple answers). Once the best > solution is found, you can cull the other solutions (or at least bring > the best solution to the top of the stack). I've found the mailing list > archives aren't the best tool for finding this quality information, and > a central repository would help to shallow the learning curve. Any > supporters or do I have my head in the clouds? > > Another question for those who have done ecomm in FarCry: did you create > a price type, and what interface did you make to create/edit prices > associated with objects? (i'm talking multiple prices for a single > product... like multiple colours options for a jumper) From what I can > tell, you'd need separate lists for products and prices in a custom tab > (similar to brendans photo gallery). I would like to make it so you > could add prices to a product by editing the product (which would seem > most logical). Can you do this sort of thing with a custom PLP or could > you use the tree, and create price objects as descendents of the > product? (which would also seem logical). > > Also, I have heard it hinted that you can auto-thumbnail dmImage objects > with the ImageJ plugin . Any hints on how I'd go about > enabling/implementing this? > > Anybody implemented a way for the public to create objects? (for example > a product review ala Amazon....) > > Ben: why are the Aura templates' doctypes XHTML when soEditor only > produces HTML4? I think it would be wise (as painful as it is) to set > the default doctype to HTML4 trans until we have a XHTML wysiwyg editor. > As soon as htmlArea 3 comes out of beta I'll be trying get that running > in FarCry and also a few plugins for it to support the extra FarCry > functionality. > > Sorry about all the q's... as you can probably tell I've spent most of > the past week playing with FarCry and I have hundreds of ideas floating > round up there. > > I've also made a list of quirks, usability and others, that I've found > during my n00b FarCry experiences. I'll post them up in a few weeks. > > cheers > - tim > > > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
