Thanks again 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?
MJS: That is the
way adding images and files work. For every page you can add a
multitude of images and files. This is how we are going about
doing options as well. Take a look at the step in the dmHTML type for
files and images. You will see the process essentially allows you to
add as much as you want to one type. If I had some finished code I
would send it your way, but right now it is pretty messy.
Ahh... so you can embed PLPs inside PLPs pretty much (I should have
realised that because you could not only Add images but Create new
images when creating a new HTML object). Ok, FarCry is better than I
first realised... (this is were Geoff chimes in telling us about his
upcoming Breeze presentation :)
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?
MJS: Our approach
for ecom is that there is so much to do to that is intrinsic to the app
that we went right to the core. Custom types are powerful and in some
cases we have moved custom types into the core. We are not messing
with the core files in anyway but rather deploying new types in the
core. This will allow us to keep up to date on core builds but have a
slew of types for ecom only!
I am going to try custom tabs for vouchers, specials and orders...
don't know about custom reporting though. Reports and monitoring is the
most important part of e-comm. Maybe I should just do another custom
admin tab for our reporting...
Cheers,
Tim
Michael @Four Eyes spoke the following wise words on 21/10/2003 3:11 AM
EST:
Thanks for the advice Michael.
MJS: This is a community and we
all like to help where we can. :)
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?
MJS: That is the
way adding images and files work. For every page you can add a
multitude of images and files. This is how we are going about
doing options as well. Take a look at the step in the dmHTML type for
files and images. You will see the process essentially allows you to
add as much as you want to one type. If I had some finished code I
would send it your way, but right now it is pretty messy.
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?
MJS: Our approach
for ecom is that there is so much to do to that is intrinsic to the app
that we went right to the core. Custom types are powerful and in some
cases we have moved custom types into the core. We are not messing
with the core files in anyway but rather deploying new types in the
core. This will allow us to keep up to date on core builds but have a
slew of types for ecom only!
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