cool thats what pretty much what I have :)

works great, thanks for the easy solution.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, not at all. I was just spouting off. I would have likely done this:
>
> def context_custom_proc(request):
>     if # success logic here:
>         white_glove = True
>     else:
>         white_glove = False
>     return white_glove
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Ryan Headley <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>>
>> Option #2 F*cking Rocks! Thanks, working like a charm and its clean.
>>
>> I made one minor change and didn't put the White Glove status into the
>> session.  Instead I just return whilte_glove variable to the context.
>>
>> Do you see any drawback to that?
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ryan Headley <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> I'm thinking thought 1 is closer to what I was trying to do.  The hard
>>> part here to putting it in the template is the slightly limited template
>>> language.
>>> I was thinking I could do:
>>>
>>> for title in CartItem.product.category.all()
>>>    ifequal title "one of my three qualifying categories"
>>>
>>>       show the white glove option
>>>    endifequal
>>> endfor
>>>
>>> But that could possibly show multiple copies of that form.  I would then
>>> need to break out of that loop.  (Still trying to find out if that can be
>>> one in django which I don't believe so).
>>>
>>> I'm very intrigued by your second thought and it sounds MUCH cleaner.  I
>>> just have no clue how to set that up.  But thats what google and django-docs
>>> are for I guess.
>>> I'll let you know what I come up with.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Bob Waycott <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ryan,
>>>>
>>>> Thought 1:
>>>>
>>>> If you are wanting it to show up at the standard shipping choices spot,
>>>> can't you just modify the template itself to check
>>>> CartItem.product.category.all() and, if one of the categories is your
>>>> special category, show the white glove option?
>>>>
>>>> Thought 2:
>>>>
>>>> Create a simple context processor that performs the same check while
>>>> someone is shopping. This context processor would execute
>>>> Cart.from_request() to get the current cart, then loop through CartItems to
>>>> see if each item's product.category.all() contained your white glove
>>>> category. If True, your context processor could set a simple
>>>> request.session['white_glove'] = True. Then, in your template, you could
>>>> have a simpler block like:
>>>>
>>>> {% if request.session.white_glove %}
>>>>   [white glove option code]
>>>> {% endif %}
>>>>
>>>> Just my two thoughts ...
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, lifewithryan 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I assume that I can instead query the product category? Again if the
>>>>> customer buys more than one product, if one of those product is in the
>>>>> qualifying category I need to show the white glove option as a selection. 
>>>>>  I
>>>>> think I see where you are going with this.  Worth a look...
>>>>>
>>>>> Would be easier I think to just be able to hide the white glove option
>>>>> if the cart doesn't contain a qualifying item though... Kind of thought 
>>>>> that
>>>>> is what the tiered shipping was all about
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You can create a custom shipping module to do this. If you look at an
>>>>> existing shipping module, you'll see that there is a "valid" method. You 
>>>>> can
>>>>> query the order total and if it meets your dollar threshold, you can 
>>>>> return
>>>>> True and the user will have the option to select the "White Glove" option.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:20 PM, lifewithryan <<[email protected]>
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have to ways to ship, both added via the tired shipping and
>>>>>> carriers configuration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) free shipping
>>>>>> 2) $200 white glove shipping
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We only want to offer the white glove shipping on the big ticket
>>>>>> items.  Thinks like accessories and parts will be free shipping (for
>>>>>> now)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is there a to configure this or am I forced into writing a template
>>>>>> tag that checks the cart to see if there are any products that qualify
>>>>>> for the $200 white glove shipping and if so, show that option along
>>>>>> with the free shipping option?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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