Re: [mv] Pricing Adjustment or CommonAdjust Help (LONG)

["Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <cfm@maine.com>]

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Beth Borysewich wrote:
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> 
> OK, 
> 
> I officially am telling everyone I am mentally challenged.
> 
> Here's the situation:
> 
> I have a site which sells CDs, vinyl, cassetes, etc.
> 
> The item codes for the CDs and vinyl (MC) are the same.  The distintion
> lies in the price.  The cd has a price of 18.85 and the vinyl (MC) is
> 2.45 less.
> 
> I have defined the products with a field called format in which I have
> the format of the item, e.g., for example item 1 is 3cds, item 2 is mix,
> item 3 is cd,mc.
> 

Hmm, it sounds to me like this isn't so much common adjust but
how to choose a setup: either attributes or distinct products and
then how to display/retain the options?

Correct me if I'm missing something: the easy way might be
to set CD, MC, or tape as an attribute of the product and
then use common adjust to price accordingly.  Were we doing this,
we would set up individual product codes for each; that provides
better data beyond minivend.  Attributes will work fine, too.

GET THE CATALOG WORKING THEN PLAY WITH FEATURES!!!

Steps:
  1) In your case, make it so you can order an item.
  2) Then add the selection for "attribute" if you go that way.
  3) Then play with commonadjust to price it right.

If you try to do it all in one step, haven't nailed down the
data scheme and haven't even gotten a working base catalog
going you will find no joy.




> There is also a price field which has the standard price of the item and
> an  mc field which contains the price of the MC item.
> 
> The Pricing database has the fields of 
> 
> code	        format	  cd	 mc
> TRAXCD09	CD, MC	18.95	-2.45
> 
> the reason for the -2.45 if because I was trying to use Common Adjust.
> 
> When an item is searched for example TRAXCD09 displays all info but not
> the ability for the person to select the format and then select order.  
> 
> If you select order, then the item is displayed with info and the
> ability to select the format, but.... when selecting recalculate, or
> checkout the item resets to a default of CD.
> 
> This is the code in the results .html
> ....
> 
> 	[if_field format]
> 	<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="helvetica, arial, geneva">Format:</FONT> 
> 	<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="helvetica, arial, geneva"
> COLOR="#0000ff">[item-field format]</FONT>
> 	[/if_field]
> ....
> 
> in basket.html I have 
> .....
> <FONT SIZE="-1">[item-accessories][item-accessories
> format][item-accessories color]
> .....
> 
> 
> I am beyond frustrated with this.  I have several clients that need this
> feature and I am not able to solve it.
> 
> PLEASE HELP.
> 
> Beth Borysewich
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