[farcry-dev] Re: PLP walkthrough, best practices, jai, public obj creation and doctypes

[Tim Lucas]

Thanks for the advice Michael. In our model the price is only valid for a certain range of dates, which is why we needed a M:1 for Prices:Products, which is also why I suggested having a separate price object. Can you use the PLP to add multiple price objects underneath the product? I'm trying to keep out of the core and see how flexible this is.... although with custom sales reports, marketing reports and all the rest I think that's going to be quite hard. I'd prefer to utilise the FarCry and FourQ libraries in a separate app to create some of the custom features, so we can keep with the standard farcry_core. Do you think it's worth the bother? - tim Michael Sammut spoke the following wise words on 20/10/2003 6:24 AM EST: 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 --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]