Re: Duplicate Items in the Cart
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16496
interpreted = N
texte = >I have a client that is complaining, that if he adds a item to a cart >then goes back to the selection page and adds the the same item again, he >ends up with the item duplicated in the shopping cart page, rather than >just having the item listed only once with the quantity set at two. I >realize that the problem is that the cart is a text file, and appending >the same item twice will generate two lineitems. However I thought maybe >someone has a workaround for this situation. Any ideas and suggestion >will be greatly appreciated.It works this way to handle the case where visitors put 2 items in the cart, such as shoes, with different colors (or other attributes):1 Tennis Shoe -- Red1 Tennis Shoe -- WhiteYou can change your templates so that you first look through all the [LineItems] for a matching sku, and if one matches you do a [SetLineItem] to increment the quantity, but if none match then you do an [AddLineItem] to put another item in the cart.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>I have a client that is complaining, that if he adds a item to a cart >then goes back to the selection page and adds the the same item again, he >ends up with the item duplicated in the shopping cart page, rather than >just having the item listed only once with the quantity set at two. I >realize that the problem is that the cart is a text file, and appending >the same item twice will generate two lineitems. However I thought maybe >someone has a workaround for this situation. Any ideas and suggestion >will be greatly appreciated.It works this way to handle the case where visitors put 2 items in the cart, such as shoes, with different colors (or other attributes):1 Tennis Shoe -- Red1 Tennis Shoe -- WhiteYou can change your templates so that you first look through all the
[lineitems] for a matching sku, and if one matches you do a
[setlineitem] to increment the quantity, but if none match then you do an
[addlineitem] to put another item in the cart.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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