RE: combining strings

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1997

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texte = Michael ->I'm trying to work up a presentation for a potential client with a very>complicated catalog (and I'm new at all this, to boot!). I'm wondering if>it is possible in WebCatalog to combine snippets of SKUs to make a longer>SKU.Sure - rather than having your form action use an explicit $search command, think of your form page as a variable collector, and use embedded [search] (or [addlineitem], or whatever) contexts in the page your form points to, which will give you more freedom to manipulate the variables.>Here's an example:>The OS550 series has three basic styles (OS551, OS552, and OS553); each>is availble in three different configurations of output (A, B, C) and four>quality of focus (1, 2, 3, 4). This makes for 36 combinations. The client>expects the customer to order using concatenated numbers: OS552-C-3, for>instance; and all three parts of the SKU are required.>I have been able to set up a search that gives option lists for each field,>but I have not been able to pass the combination through to the shopping>cart as the actual SKU. Is there a way to do this by adding string values?Okay, in this example, let's say you have your form take three inputs: style, config, and focus. On the next page, you can build a SKU >from these inside a context, like so:[search db=yourstuff.db&eqSKUdata=[style]-[config]-[focus]]....[/search]You might need to wrap that resulting SKU in a [URL] context, and if there are going to be different/special cases you may have to do a little [showif] checking, but this approach should work for you.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: combining strings (Marc Eagle 1997)

Michael ->I'm trying to work up a presentation for a potential client with a very>complicated catalog (and I'm new at all this, to boot!). I'm wondering if>it is possible in WebCatalog to combine snippets of SKUs to make a longer>SKU.Sure - rather than having your form action use an explicit $search command, think of your form page as a variable collector, and use embedded [search] (or [addlineitem], or whatever) contexts in the page your form points to, which will give you more freedom to manipulate the variables.>Here's an example:>The OS550 series has three basic styles (OS551, OS552, and OS553); each>is availble in three different configurations of output (A, B, C) and four>quality of focus (1, 2, 3, 4). This makes for 36 combinations. The client>expects the customer to order using concatenated numbers: OS552-C-3, for>instance; and all three parts of the SKU are required.>I have been able to set up a search that gives option lists for each field,>but I have not been able to pass the combination through to the shopping>cart as the actual SKU. Is there a way to do this by adding string values?Okay, in this example, let's say you have your form take three inputs: style, config, and focus. On the next page, you can build a SKU >from these inside a context, like so:[search db=yourstuff.db&eqSKUdata=[style]-[config]-[focus]]....[/search]You might need to wrap that resulting SKU in a [url] context, and if there are going to be different/special cases you may have to do a little [showif] checking, but this approach should work for you.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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RE: combining strings

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