hi, i am not sure what u r referring to, but if you are referring 'Enable Auto Suggestion List', it is set to yes. Even then i suppose the cart should not delete items added by customer before log-in.
rohit jacques.le.roux wrote: > > This could be a store parameter. > > Jacques > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:06 AM > Subject: Re: Login and items in Shopping cart. > > >> >> My guess based on what you describe would be that the code that >> restores the card (in ShoppingListServices.java if I remember right) >> probably explicitly clears the cart before loading it from the auto- >> save shopping list... >> >> Before changing this to not clear the cart we should discuss real and >> possible side effects. I think there was some discussion about this >> that you should be able to find on the old lists.ofbiz.org dev >> archives. I don't remember the reasons for doing it this way, or if >> they were any good... It goes seem a bit funny... >> >> -David >> >> >> On Sep 10, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Rohit Sureka wrote: >> >> > Hi Chris, >> > >> > the items in the cart are saved properly, no issues about that. >> > >> > i will give you an example, to be more clear with the shopping cart >> > behaviour that i am seeing: >> > >> > say you are a customer, you visit my site and a product to shopping >> > cart. You proceed to create an account on the website and moves >> > towards completing the checkout. But for whatever reason you do not >> > place the order and leave the site. Now your session is destroyed >> > and the cart is auto saved in the system. >> > >> > Till this point everything is OK, right. >> > >> > Now you decide to complete the purchase and revisit the website. >> > You are browsing through some other products on the site and add >> > them to your cart too. Once you have added products to your cart >> > you decide to checkout. You login to your account previously >> > created. This is where the behaviour of the cart changes. The items >> > that you just added before logging in are lost and no longer in the >> > cart. i think this is a serious draw back, customers would then be >> > forced to add the products again to the cart, i am sure many >> > customers would walk away at this. >> > >> > To provide the customers with seamless experience the products >> > added to the cart before logging in should be present in the cart >> > even after logging in. >> > >> > I hope i am making sense, you will find that this is how most of >> > the ecommerce site works, you may try something similar on >> > amazon.com and it makes sense too, you do not your customers get >> > irritated with and think that something is probably wrong with the >> > site. >> > >> > Rohit >> > >> > ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Chris Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: [email protected] >> > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:04:57 AM >> > Subject: Re: Login and items in Shopping cart. >> > >> > >> > The shopping cart is auto saved for the session. When >> > you log out, the session is destroyed. If a customer >> > wants to save their shopping experience for another >> > time, they can add their cart to a shopping list. >> > This will be saved to the database and not to the >> > sesion, so the customer can log out, log in and reload >> > their shopping list to cart. If you wanted to, you >> > could create a service that auto creates a shopping >> > list when the customer logs out (you'd want to call it >> > a different type then the ones currently in use) and >> > then auto check that when the customer logs in. >> > However, I don't think this is the default behavior >> > that most companies would want. >> > >> > We have a supplier that saves our carts and gives us >> > an option to finish our order when we log in, but to >> > auto reload it would be inconvenient. Afterall, there >> > was a reason the customer logged out. >> > >> > --- rohit2006 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I see a strange behaviour in the shopping cart >> >> items, the items added to a >> >> shopping cart prior to login are not saved or added >> >> to the cart once the >> >> customers logs in and if he has added items in his >> >> shopping cart previously. >> >> The behaviour can be replicated as follows: >> >> >> >> 1) create a user account in the ecommerce. >> >> 2) add items to shopping cart and then log off >> >> without completing the >> >> checkout. >> >> 3) again add some different items to your cart as a >> >> anonymous user and then >> >> login with the user ID created in step 1. >> >> >> >> Ideally the items added in both the sessions should >> >> be now present in the >> >> shopping cart, but strangely only the items added in >> >> first session in step >> >> 2, is present in the cart. The items added in the >> >> last step, before the >> >> customer logs in, are lost. >> >> >> >> I think the new items should be added to the cart >> >> and the cart should have >> >> all the items added by the customer in all sessions >> >> where the checkout was >> >> not completed and the customer had not purposefully >> >> removed the items from >> >> the cart. I am not sure if there is a settings >> >> problem, i have the auto-save >> >> cart enable in the store and i am using the latest >> >> SVN. >> >> >> >> Hope somebody looks into this. >> >> >> >> Rohit >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> > http://www.nabble.com/Login-and-items-in-Shopping-cart.- >> > tf2246796.html#a6231356 >> >> Sent from the OFBiz - User forum at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Login-and-items-in-Shopping-cart.-tf2246796.html#a6263467 Sent from the OFBiz - User forum at Nabble.com.
