Associated Products

[Tim Ruppert]

Are rendered using the productsummaryScreen - which is normally fine.  I
found something strange when my products starting showing up in multiple
categories.

Picture Products A, B, & C which are all in the Coat Category.  So, you
associate these as product_complements and when you're in the Coat
Category the URLs to the Suggested Products look something like
/ecommerce/control/crosssell/~category=100/~product_id=10000 - (let's
say this is to Product C).   Let's say that  A has the associated
products B & C, and the like for each of the others.

This is awesome, but what happens when you place A & B on special and
they show up on your main page?  Well, then the detail page looks the
same except the URLs look like this
/ecommerce/control/crosssell/~category=SPECIALS/~product_id=10000 .

This is a problem because C is not actually in the SPECIALS - and causes
an error.  I have fixed this by using a different productsummaryScreen
that removes the ~category component from the URL - which is kinda
weird, but it works.

Is this something we should fix in OFBiz?

Cheers,
Tim

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Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

o:801.649.6594
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[David E Jones-2]

That's an interesting re-use side-effect bug... I guess we could  
either create a separate ftl file for the cross/up/etc-sells than the  
one used for the category listings, or we could make the current one  
more intelligent to know where it is being included from. Either way  
is fine by me...

-David


On Aug 10, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Tim Ruppert wrote:

> Are rendered using the productsummaryScreen - which is normally  
> fine.  I found something strange when my products starting showing  
> up in multiple categories.
> Picture Products A, B, & C which are all in the Coat Category.  So,  
> you associate these as product_complements and when you're in the  
> Coat Category the URLs to the Suggested Products look something  
> like /ecommerce/control/crosssell/~category=100/~product_id=10000 -  
> (let's say this is to Product C).   Let's say that  A has the  
> associated products B & C, and the like for each of the others.
>
> This is awesome, but what happens when you place A & B on special  
> and they show up on your main page?  Well, then the detail page  
> looks the same except the URLs look like this /ecommerce/control/
> crosssell/~category=SPECIALS/~product_id=10000 .
> This is a problem because C is not actually in the SPECIALS - and  
> causes an error.  I have fixed this by using a different  
> productsummaryScreen that removes the ~category component from the  
> URL - which is kinda weird, but it works.
>
> Is this something we should fix in OFBiz?
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Ruppert
> HotWax Media
> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>
> o:801.649.6594
> f:801.649.6595
>

[Tim Ruppert]

Yeah, I'll file a bug so that we can get to this when there's time.  For
my part, I can provide a temporary patch which will solve the problem
for everyone - and truthfully - at the moment I can't think of anything
else that will fix it since the ProductAssociation is associating
products - not categories.

Therefore there can be no context on where these other products might
live.  We could always look up the categories that these products come
from and just pick one of the potentially valid categories, but is that
better than taking them to a product page without an active category?

Cheers,
Tim

David E. Jones wrote:

>
> That's an interesting re-use side-effect bug... I guess we could
> either create a separate ftl file for the cross/up/etc-sells than the
> one used for the category listings, or we could make the current one
> more intelligent to know where it is being included from. Either way
> is fine by me...
>
> -David
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Tim Ruppert wrote:
>
>> Are rendered using the productsummaryScreen - which is normally
>> fine.  I found something strange when my products starting showing up
>> in multiple categories.
>> Picture Products A, B, & C which are all in the Coat Category.  So,
>> you associate these as product_complements and when you're in the
>> Coat Category the URLs to the Suggested Products look something like
>> /ecommerce/control/crosssell/~category=100/~product_id=10000 - (let's
>> say this is to Product C).   Let's say that  A has the associated
>> products B & C, and the like for each of the others.
>>
>> This is awesome, but what happens when you place A & B on special and
>> they show up on your main page?  Well, then the detail page looks the
>> same except the URLs look like this
>> /ecommerce/control/crosssell/~category=SPECIALS/~product_id=10000 .
>> This is a problem because C is not actually in the SPECIALS - and
>> causes an error.  I have fixed this by using a different
>> productsummaryScreen that removes the ~category component from the
>> URL - which is kinda weird, but it works.
>>
>> Is this something we should fix in OFBiz?
>>
>>