[ic] Gifting (was Can I do this?)

Thu Feb 21 19:54:01 2002

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:57:01PM -0500, Jim Musil wrote:
> >>1. When an order is a gift, can the customer specify that it is a 
> >>gift and input a special message that would be sent to the store 
> >>admin with the order? I suspect this would be a simple option 
> >>perhaps using a widget ... or something ...
> >
> >This has been part of IC demos since the Minivend days, and most of 
> >the code is still there, but for some reason the input box was 
> >omitted from checkout.html, at some point. Try adding this to that 
> >file, just above the Place Order button:
> >
> >Special instructions / Gift note:<br>
> ><textarea name=gift_note rows=4 cols=50>[value gift_note]</textarea>
> >
> >You should see whatever you enter on the email receipt and store 
> >copy.  If it doesn't get logged to the order table, modify 
> >etc/log_transaction to record the note in the appropriate field in 
> >transactions (I think there is a comments field).
> 
> 
> Thanks! That makes sense. Except that would mean that an order can 
> only be all one gift or not a gift at all. This doesn't fit our needs 
> because customers will buy gifts for several different people all at 
> once. Since you have the option of specifying different delivery 
> addresses for each portion of your order, there must be a way to also 
> attach a gift message/comment to each item in your order.
> 
> If I have to I'll modify the code, but it seems like there would be 
> an easier and quicker way.

UseModifier gift_message

> 
> 
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