Product Configuration

[gobrien]

I’m attempting to understand how the OFBiz product configuration works as I need to extend it.

 

I notice in the eCommerce application that is I can put multiple instances of the configurable PC into the cart, each with a different configuration and thus a different price. If I then View Cart and select the link on one of those (Configurable PC) cart items I arrive back at the product configuration screen as expected; however, the default configuration is loaded rather than the specific configuration based on the item I selected.

 

Is it designed to work like this for a particular reason or is this an oversight?

 

Note, if I proceed though checkout the configuration of each PC comes along and all is well with the actual order; it’s just if I decide to go back and edit my configuration while the item resides in the cart or in a shopping list that I can’t access specific configuration to modify it.

 

Thanks,

Gareth.

 

 

Gareth O’Brien

Director

 

Objecitve Advantage Europe Ltd.

Dublin, Ireland

[phone] Voice

[phone] Mobile

 

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[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

Hi Gareth,

I think that the editing of configurations in the cart is simply not implemented (and the link to the cart view page, that is confusing, actually goes to the product detail screen from where you can only add a new configuration to the cart).

Jacopo

On Mar 15, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Gareth O'Brien wrote:

> I’m attempting to understand how the OFBiz product configuration works as I need to extend it.
>  
> I notice in the eCommerce application that is I can put multiple instances of the configurable PC into the cart, each with a different configuration and thus a different price. If I then View Cart and select the link on one of those (Configurable PC) cart items I arrive back at the product configuration screen as expected; however, the default configuration is loaded rather than the specific configuration based on the item I selected.
>  
> Is it designed to work like this for a particular reason or is this an oversight?
>  
> Note, if I proceed though checkout the configuration of each PC comes along and all is well with the actual order; it’s just if I decide to go back and edit my configuration while the item resides in the cart or in a shopping list that I can’t access specific configuration to modify it.
>  
> Thanks,
>
> Gareth.
>  
>  
> Gareth O’Brien
> Director
>  
> Objecitve Advantage Europe Ltd.
> Dublin, Ireland
> [phone] Voice
> [phone] Mobile
>  
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[Colin Rooney-2]

Hi Gareth,

nice to see someone else in Ireland interested in OfBiz.  I've suggested it
to various people in the past but sadly none took it on.

re: your question
The OOTB eCommerce is really only a demo and I suspect that everyone
rebuilds the site for production use.
But, if you look at the link in the basket view it is simply calling the
template view of the Product... the is it is precisely the same url as when
you selected the configure button from the main shopping window and that is
why your selection is not included.

The selected configuration is displayed on that view but you could simply
modify that Basket View screen to point to a new view that would display
the actual selection.  You could simply copy this existing screen and add a
little code to load the configuration first... I don't imagine it would be
terrible complex.  Have you been developing much with OfBiz yet?  It's a
huge monster but once you get your head around it, it all makes a lot of
sense - mind you I say that as someone who did a lot of research in
preparation for a project that never went ahead so I didn't have to do much
actually development in the end.  But even so I still felt that, once you
got over the editing of the XML files and the lack of tradition java
debugging techniques, it was very powerful.

Regards

Colin
Dublin & Mullingar


On 15 March 2012 12:32, Gareth O'Brien <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I’m attempting to understand how the OFBiz product configuration works as
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> I notice in the eCommerce application that is I can put multiple instances
> of the configurable PC into the cart, each with a different configuration
> and thus a different price. If I then View Cart and select the link on one
> of those (Configurable PC) cart items I arrive back at the product
> configuration screen as expected; however, the default configuration is
> loaded rather than the specific configuration based on the item I selected.
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> Is it designed to work like this for a particular reason or is this an
> oversight?****
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> Note, if I proceed though checkout the configuration of each PC comes
> along and all is well with the actual order; it’s just if I decide to go
> back and edit my configuration while the item resides in the cart or in a
> shopping list that I can’t access specific configuration to modify it.****
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> Thanks,****
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