Re: Formulas.db

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 40008
interpreted = N
texte = thanks.John Peacock wrote:> Donovan Brooke wrote: > > > > Hello, Our company has somewhat complex discounting for its products depending on sku, quantity etc... My question is should I > > do > > all the discount formulas in a formulas.db so that price is entered including the discounts > > in each item added to the cart? Since this has to be one line in a database the script could get long I think. > > Are there other solutions to complex discounting. > > thanks. > > If you do not do the discount calculations at the time of entering the item > into the cart, you will need to do a [lineitems] loop and set the price at > some time later in the transaction. If you allow the user to change the > quantities at some later time, you will need to do that too, to recalculate > the price (since the price formula is ONLY used when add a lineitem to the > cart). > > I believe people have in the past used include files to encapsulate the price > calculation (so it is available both at time of insertion into the cart as > well as later). > > It would be really useful to have a new context [RecalcCart] which would go > through all of the cart lines and redo the original price calculation. > > HTH > > John > > -- >-- Donovan D. Brooke Systems Administrator/ Assc. Art Director Epsen Hillmer Graphics------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  13. Re: Formulas.db not working ( Donovan Brooke 2006)
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thanks.John Peacock wrote:> Donovan Brooke wrote: > > > > Hello, Our company has somewhat complex discounting for its products depending on sku, quantity etc... My question is should I > > do > > all the discount formulas in a formulas.db so that price is entered including the discounts > > in each item added to the cart? Since this has to be one line in a database the script could get long I think. > > Are there other solutions to complex discounting. > > thanks. > > If you do not do the discount calculations at the time of entering the item > into the cart, you will need to do a [lineitems] loop and set the price at > some time later in the transaction. If you allow the user to change the > quantities at some later time, you will need to do that too, to recalculate > the price (since the price formula is ONLY used when add a lineitem to the > cart). > > I believe people have in the past used include files to encapsulate the price > calculation (so it is available both at time of insertion into the cart as > well as later). > > It would be really useful to have a new context [RecalcCart] which would go > through all of the cart lines and redo the original price calculation. > > HTH > > John > > -- >-- Donovan D. Brooke Systems Administrator/ Assc. Art Director Epsen Hillmer Graphics------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Donovan Brooke

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