And Group field in Product Promo Action/Condition Categories

[Scott Gray-2]

Does anybody know what the And Group field is supposed to do in the  
Product Promo Action/Condition Categories forms?

I've tried tracing the code but it appears to me that the feature is  
broken and I don't know how to fix it because I don't know what it was  
supposed to do in the first place.

Thanks
Scott

HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

[David E Jones-3]

The general idea was to have a way to require more than one category  
(ie the product has to be in all categories in the and group). In  
other words: by default a product qualifies if it is in any category  
associated with a condition/action/rule/etc, and if we want to require  
that a product be in multiple categories in order to qualify we need a  
way of grouping those categories, and that is the "And Group".

It is really a bit of a hack-ish way to model the concept, and is not  
totally flexible, but seems to handle just fine the rare case where  
such a thing is needed.

-David


On May 28, 2009, at 3:38 AM, Scott Gray wrote:

> Does anybody know what the And Group field is supposed to do in the  
> Product Promo Action/Condition Categories forms?
>
> I've tried tracing the code but it appears to me that the feature is  
> broken and I don't know how to fix it because I don't know what it  
> was supposed to do in the first place.
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
> HotWax Media
> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

[Scott Gray-2]

Thanks David, I'll get it working again as soon as I get a chance.

Regards
Scott

On 28/05/2009, at 10:32 PM, David E Jones wrote:

>
> The general idea was to have a way to require more than one category  
> (ie the product has to be in all categories in the and group). In  
> other words: by default a product qualifies if it is in any category  
> associated with a condition/action/rule/etc, and if we want to  
> require that a product be in multiple categories in order to qualify  
> we need a way of grouping those categories, and that is the "And  
> Group".
>
> It is really a bit of a hack-ish way to model the concept, and is  
> not totally flexible, but seems to handle just fine the rare case  
> where such a thing is needed.
>
> -David
>
>
> On May 28, 2009, at 3:38 AM, Scott Gray wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know what the And Group field is supposed to do in the  
>> Product Promo Action/Condition Categories forms?
>>
>> I've tried tracing the code but it appears to me that the feature  
>> is broken and I don't know how to fix it because I don't know what  
>> it was supposed to do in the first place.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>>
>> HotWax Media
>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>