How does product promos work.

[rohit]

Hi,

the default ofbiz svn has a product promo id 9020, which reads as 'Get 1 Free [WG-1111], between 15:00 - 18:00 at weekdays'. This basically means that a promotion will be active during specific days of the week and at specific times during those days. However i could not find it where these settings are set, for eg, where are the settings for days and hours of the day set.

I am not sure if such functionality at all exists. If it does i will appreciate if someone can direct me towards that.

Also i observed a potential buy in product pricing when promos are used in conjunction with virtaul products. For we have a virtual product A (with list price 100 for the top end) and A-1(with default price 100, to end) and A-2 (with default price 80, basic version) are variants of A. Now consider a case where you want to run a promo for variant A-2 and want to offer a discount of 10% on A-2. After setting the appropriate promotion settings under the tab "promos", the discount was applied to the list price of the virtual product and not to the variant product as should be the case.

Setting a price rule also failed in this case. I guess the promos does not work properly with variant products with different prices.

Please share your thoughts on this issue.

Rohit

[Eric DE MAULDE]

Hi,

For a product with variants,
Price rules and promos have to apply a condition to a category
and each variant has to be a member of this category

Eric
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Subject: How does product promos work.

>
> Hi,
>
> the default ofbiz svn has a product promo id 9020, which reads as 'Get 1
> Free [WG-1111], between 15:00 - 18:00 at weekdays'. This basically means
> that a promotion will be active during specific days of the week and at
> specific times during those days. However i could not find it where these
> settings are set, for eg, where are the settings for days and hours of the
> day set.
>
> I am not sure if such functionality at all exists. If it does i will
> appreciate if someone can direct me towards that.
>
> Also i observed a potential buy in product pricing when promos are used in
> conjunction with virtaul products. For we have a virtual product A (with
> list price 100 for the top end) and A-1(with default price 100, to end)
> and
> A-2 (with default price 80, basic version) are variants of A. Now consider
> a
> case where you want to run a promo for variant A-2 and want to offer a
> discount of 10% on A-2. After setting the appropriate promotion settings
> under the tab "promos", the discount was applied to the list price of the
> virtual product and not to the variant product as should be the case.
>
> Setting a price rule also failed in this case. I guess the promos does not
> work properly with variant products with different prices.
>
> Please share your thoughts on this issue.
>
> Rohit
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[BJ Freeman]

https://demo904.ofbiz.org/catalog/control/EditProductPromoRules?productPromoId=9020
notice the condition is 205
have to trace through the code in ProductPromoWorker.java
for PPIP_RECURRENCE
this gets you to the RecurrenceRule
https://demo904.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/FindGeneric?entityName=RecurrenceRule&find=true&VIEW_SIZE=50&VIEW_INDEX=0
https://demo904.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/ArtifactInfo
type in
RecurrenceRule
you will see there is no UI for this.




rohit2006 sent the following on 7/21/2009 12:15 AM:

> Hi,
>
> the default ofbiz svn has a product promo id 9020, which reads as 'Get 1
> Free [WG-1111], between 15:00 - 18:00 at weekdays'. This basically means
> that a promotion will be active during specific days of the week and at
> specific times during those days. However i could not find it where these
> settings are set, for eg, where are the settings for days and hours of the
> day set.
>
> I am not sure if such functionality at all exists. If it does i will
> appreciate if someone can direct me towards that.
>
> Also i observed a potential buy in product pricing when promos are used in
> conjunction with virtaul products. For we have a virtual product A (with
> list price 100 for the top end) and A-1(with default price 100, to end) and
> A-2 (with default price 80, basic version) are variants of A. Now consider a
> case where you want to run a promo for variant A-2 and want to offer a
> discount of 10% on A-2. After setting the appropriate promotion settings
> under the tab "promos", the discount was applied to the list price of the
> virtual product and not to the variant product as should be the case.
>
> Setting a price rule also failed in this case. I guess the promos does not
> work properly with variant products with different prices.
>
> Please share your thoughts on this issue.
>
> Rohit

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