Re: Price Rule simple question?

Posted by David E Jones on Feb 18, 2007; 8:10pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Price-Rule-simple-question-tp144630p144633.html


On Feb 18, 2007, at 5:22 AM, Walter Vaughan wrote:

>>> What really monkeys this up (my apologies to any monkeys on the  
>>> list) is that after I get this rule working, I have a exception  
>>> for  a category of products that are limited to 10% regardless of  
>>> amount  of order total.
>> What is that actual error you are getting?
>
> Its not an error yet :) What I can't wrap my head around it how to  
> handle the case where the customer is entitled to an additional  
> discount based upon the value of items in the cart, yet they are  
> not entitled to recieve that additional discount percentage for all  
> the items in the cart.
>
>   10% off     5% Promo
> Part    Retail     PriceRule   Qty   over $500 Total
> A $10   $9 10 0 $90
> A $10   $9 70 35 $595
> B $10   $9 10 0 $90
> B $10   $9           70 0        $630
>
> So if a customer had 70 of partA and 70 of partB which is exempt  
> from any more discounting, their cart total should be $1225, not $1260
>
> I guess I need to get a promo I created working, before I worry  
> about the exception to the promo :)

I'm really lost here... maybe I'm missing something obvious.

One thing I'm not clear about it where you are using price rules, and  
where you are using promotions. The two are very different.

I think what you are describing here is easiest to do with  
promotions. You can specify a category (or multiple categories) that  
are excluded from a promotion condition or action or in general.

-David