Re: [mv] All products have the user input the pricing

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting scott andreas (scotta@homer-simpson.learnserv.com):
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm building an intranet for our company such that our reps will use
> minivend as the vehicle to submit quotes and orders. The problem is that
> all products have pricing based upon what the rep wants to sell the
> product for. Thus, I need a minivend form  that will parse the price
> based upon the reps input in a price text field in relation to a sku &
> description.
> 
> To make things more complicated I want certain price discounts displayed
> (10% 15% 20% 25% 30%) for that sku such that the rep can either click on
> one of the static discount prices or enter his/her own price for this
> sku.
> 
> The only thing I see that comes close to this in the documentation and
> the searches is to use CommonAdjust and a pricing table. But, how does a
> rep  input into a form a price in relation to a sku and to have this
> price reflected throughout the cart.

You can use the mv_price modifier for that, along with the 
$ atom included in the demo for CommonAdjust.

Direct access to the shopping cart provides this -- obviously you will
want to protect the page which has this code from unauthorized people.

This is really just a programming exercise once you realize you can
manipulate the cart and set mv_price.

Simplified code to set that:

[perl]
	my $cart = $Carts->{main};
	for( my $i = 0; $i < @$cart; $i++) {
		my $line = $i + 1;
		my $price;
		next unless defined ($price = $CGI->{"rep_price$line"});
		$price =~ s/[^\d.]//g;
		$cart->[$i]{mv_price} = $price;
	}
	return;
[/perl]

Now a simple form with that code as target:

[item-list]
	SKU [item-code], set price: <INPUT NAME="rep_price[item-increment]">
	<P>
[/item-list]

You may have to manipulate your CommonAdjust string appropriately if you
want to do other types of pricing, i.e.

    CommonAdjust   $ ;pricing:price_group,q2,q5,q10,q25,q100 ;:price

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