Hi Simon:
At first blush, here's my suggestion:
If you want the products to show up alongside your other products then
consider:
1) Creating a new ProductAssocType. Call it something like "FREE_DOWNLOAD"
2) After you create your product, add the "FREE_DOWNLOAD" association to it
3) Make sure the BeanShell/Groovy script that feeds the Freemarker
view(s) for the product detail listings pick up this new association
type and pass it to the Freemarker template.
3) Modify the Freemarker template to recognize a product type of Digital
Download and an association of FREE_DOWNLOAD to:
a) remove the "add cart " button for this product
b) put a link for the URL download location on the product's listing
entry
That's just at a real high level. There may be some other things you
will have to do to get this to work exactly as you'd like.
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Regards,
Ruth
Simon Hutchinson wrote:
Hi Ruth,
Thank you very much indeed for getting back to me.
In answer to your question, there is no reason that the "free" items
have to be products however I would like them to appear alongside
products i.e by category etc ....
If you could give me some pointers on the "really easy workarounds"
i'd be much obliged -
BR
Si
On 14 Sep 2009, at 19:55, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Simon:
Welcome!
The way it works in the 4.x release is:
If the digital item has been defined as a product and it shows up on
a catalog product listing, then, yes, the user must "purchase" it
first. By "purchase" I mean, it must be placed in the shopping cart
and the user must go through checkout process creating an order. The
order must then be approved even if there is no price associated with
the product - "free". Only after a line item on an order is approved,
is it available for download.
Not sure if this has changed in the 9.x releases.
Do your "free" items need to be products? Or, can they be products
that are not added to the shopping cart? It seems that on the
surface, there may be some really easy workarounds for this
requirement depending on what you are trying to achieve.
Regards,
Ruth
Simon Hutchinson wrote:
Hi,
I am brand new to Ofbiz so please excuse my ignorance.
The product we are developing will include a combination of paid and
free digital downloads.
I have setup the demo data which allows me to purchase a Digital
Gizmo and then subsequently download it.
Is it possible OOB to allow a user to download digital content
without having to purchase the product first?
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