Re: Price Rule simple question?

Posted by David E Jones on Feb 19, 2007; 8:48pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Price-Rule-simple-question-tp144630p144640.html


On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Eric Schwartz wrote:

> hello david (sitting 10 ft away from me),
>
> This is the way to get around the issue as i understand it. by  
> looking at
> the demo promotion "Test $ off products in category" i was able to  
> figure
> out how to give the appropriate discounts to the items in our  
> categories.
> The only difference is we needed to add a few conditions so the  
> discounts
> only applied if the cart sub total was at a  certain amount and the  
> party
> was in a particular classification. After i added the conditions we  
> needed i
> told it to include basically all the categories we have parts in  
> but exclude
> the parts in our LIMITED_DISC category.
>
> The tricky part for me was that the place to include and exclude  
> categories
> is not obvious. It gives you the option to do that when creating the
> conditions and actions but you really need to do it further down on  
> the
> page. i am not sure why you can specify this info in the conditions  
> and
> actions portion of the rules. It's directly under the portion of  
> the page
> for creating a new rule. Also you had to define categories to include.
> excluding a category does not automatically mean include every  
> category but
> the one i chose to exclude. we have it working for now. I suppose  
> we better
> test it huh.

If you associate products or categories with a condition or action  
they will apply only to that condition or action, whereas the ones on  
the bottom of the page apply to all conditions and actions.

-David