Re: [mv] Check if item is in pricing.asc

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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At 07:45 AM 4/19/00 +0200, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Mats Andersson" 
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>  My
>pricing.asc looks like
>
>code    q2      q5      q6      q10     q12     q25     q100
>D-1     3.40    3.40    3       3       2.90    2.90    2.90
>FR-1    23.56   23.56   23.56   20      20      20      20
>
>Normal quantity pricing works OK. In the basket and in other pages I
>would like code like
>
>[if data pricing::code::D-1]
><BR>[page quantity [item-code]]
><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR=RED>QUANTITY PRICING
></FONT></A>
>[/if]

on a results page or flypage, this would work:

[if data pricing::q2::[item-code]]
         [page quantity [item-code]]Quantity Pricing[/page]
[/if]


>An other problem regarding quantity pricing. I have read various
>schemes in the mailing list about adding and subtracting from the
>quantity field in the basket. In my humble opinion the logical way is
>thus:
>Customer buys 3 cans of beer. He finds out that he can get 6 cans for
>the price of 4. So he clicks on 6 in quantity pricing.html. Then he
>should end up with 6 cans of beer in the basket. Not 3 or 9.
>
>Ie I would like to REPLACE the quantity in the basket with the new
>quantity. Can it be done??? HOW???

You can try setting the SeparateItems directive to NO in catalog.cfg.  I 
have not tried this so it may not do exactly what you want, in which case 
you are probably going to have to write your own routine (or usertag) in Perl.

- Ed L.
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