Repost about Options

[Grateful]

I tried this question back in July and even though I think someone e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in getting this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using version 5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to charge us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with Shopsite. I have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on the shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the course along with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course. I just want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[Switch Hits]

Val,

This is a quick and dirty setup at
http://www.switchhits.com/condo.html where you could put any text
you want to including the name of the course and date plus the
price...a simple 1 option setup.

Jimmy Hilburger
www.switchhits.com

"Grateful" <grateful@velocity.net> wrote in message
news:aq9e37$1me$1@support.shopsite.com...

I tried this question back in July and even though I think
someone e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in
getting this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using
version 5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to
charge us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with
Shopsite. I have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the
classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on
the shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the
course along with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is
offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course.
I just want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the
course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[Grateful]

Jimmy,
I could use a vacation, really! I must be missing something. I couldn't find
the Add to Cart button or View Cart button on this page, so I couldn't see
how the option was being sent to the cart. I viewed the source and I see
that you're posting the form to your order.cgi. Is that all I need to do?
I've been sifting through the help files for a while and I'm just not
getting it. I would feel really dumb, but I just don't have time to. If
anyone could just point me to the right page in the documentation, I think I
could figure it out.
Thanks!
Val



"Switch Hits" <jimmy@switchhits.com> wrote in message
news:aq9et8$1pa$1@support.shopsite.com...

Val,

This is a quick and dirty setup at
http://www.switchhits.com/condo.html where you could put any text
you want to including the name of the course and date plus the
price...a simple 1 option setup.

Jimmy Hilburger
www.switchhits.com

"Grateful" <grateful@velocity.net> wrote in message
news:aq9e37$1me$1@support.shopsite.com...
I tried this question back in July and even though I think
someone e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in
getting this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using
version 5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to
charge us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with
Shopsite. I have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the
classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on
the shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the
course along with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is
offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course.
I just want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the
course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[Switch Hits]

I'm packing orders so that was a quick and dirty that I had
dormant and just activated...I added an add to cart button but
not the view cart button...it was all done as an option as
described at
http://www.shopsite.com/help/6.1/en-US/ ... ?page=/hel
p/6.1/en-US/sc/pro/index.html. Must run and pack more orders.

Jimmy Hilburger
www.switchhits.com


"Grateful" <grateful@velocity.net> wrote in message
news:aq9gnc$21n$1@support.shopsite.com...

Jimmy,
I could use a vacation, really! I must be missing something. I
couldn't find
the Add to Cart button or View Cart button on this page, so I
couldn't see
how the option was being sent to the cart. I viewed the source
and I see
that you're posting the form to your order.cgi. Is that all I
need to do?
I've been sifting through the help files for a while and I'm
just not
getting it. I would feel really dumb, but I just don't have
time to. If
anyone could just point me to the right page in the
documentation, I think I
could figure it out.
Thanks!
Val



"Switch Hits" <jimmy@switchhits.com> wrote in message
news:aq9et8$1pa$1@support.shopsite.com...
Val,

This is a quick and dirty setup at
http://www.switchhits.com/condo.html where you could put any
text
you want to including the name of the course and date plus
the
price...a simple 1 option setup.

Jimmy Hilburger
www.switchhits.com

"Grateful" <grateful@velocity.net> wrote in message
news:aq9e37$1me$1@support.shopsite.com...
I tried this question back in July and even though I think
someone e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest
in
getting this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm
using
version 5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is
planning to
charge us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with
Shopsite. I have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the
classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need
on
the shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the
course along with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is
offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each
course.
I just want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify
the
course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[loren_d_c]

1) You can add a text field under each product, check the checkbox in Edit
Product Info for "Customer Text Entry". You can use this to ask for the names
or other info you need for each course ordered.

2) You can set these up as Ordering Options pull-down menus. In the appropriate
field in Edit Product info you could set up two pull-downs like this:

Select a Course:
Course A
Course B
Course C

Select a Date:
Date A
Date B
Date C


However, if every course isn't offered on every day you may need to put every
combination in the pull-down like this to make sure you don't get someone
ordering a course on a date that it isn't offered:

Select a course and course date:
Course A on Date A
Course A on Date B
Course A on Date C
---------------------
Course B on Date D
Course B on Date E
Course B on Date F
--------------------
Course C on Date G
Course C on Date H
Course C on Date I


If you don't like how many option that gives to the product, then you will need
to separate the product out into a separate product for each course, and it
would then just need a date pull-down like this:

Select a date for this course:
Date A
Date B
Date C


If you are using ShopSite Pro v6.1 or newer, then you can add a ;n after the
lines of the pull-down menus that aren't valid options (like the 'select a ...'
option or any dividers used like in my second example) in order to make sure
that a valid option is picked before they can checkout.

-Loren



Grateful wrote:

I tried this question back in July and even though I think someone e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in getting this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using version 5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to charge us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with Shopsite. I have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on the shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the course along with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course. I just want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[Grateful]

Loren,
Is the form only available with ShopSite 6 and above? My site is all
ColdFusion and I can generate forms from my training database with exactly
the needed options if I can just use that form. And do I have to use the
product database or can I send all the options including price to the
shopping cart? I will still need an option so they can fill in an attendee's
name.

I really do appreciate your help! But, I feel like I'm trying to ask you to
solve all my problems. Is there a help page I can find this info on for my
version?

Thanks!

Val

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3DC853B7.51F651BC@yahoo.com...

1) You can add a text field under each product, check the checkbox in Edit
Product Info for "Customer Text Entry". You can use this to ask for the
names
or other info you need for each course ordered.

2) You can set these up as Ordering Options pull-down menus. In the
appropriate
field in Edit Product info you could set up two pull-downs like this:

Select a Course:
Course A
Course B
Course C

Select a Date:
Date A
Date B
Date C


However, if every course isn't offered on every day you may need to put
every
combination in the pull-down like this to make sure you don't get someone
ordering a course on a date that it isn't offered:

Select a course and course date:
Course A on Date A
Course A on Date B
Course A on Date C
---------------------
Course B on Date D
Course B on Date E
Course B on Date F
--------------------
Course C on Date G
Course C on Date H
Course C on Date I


If you don't like how many option that gives to the product, then you will
need
to separate the product out into a separate product for each course, and
it
would then just need a date pull-down like this:

Select a date for this course:
Date A
Date B
Date C


If you are using ShopSite Pro v6.1 or newer, then you can add a ;n after
the
lines of the pull-down menus that aren't valid options (like the 'select a
....'
option or any dividers used like in my second example) in order to make
sure
that a valid option is picked before they can checkout.

-Loren



Grateful wrote:

I tried this question back in July and even though I think someone
e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in getting
this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using version
5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to charge
us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with Shopsite. I
have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on the
shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the course along
with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course. I just
want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val

[loren_d_c]

My suggestion #1 was for a per-product text entry box on the shopping
cart screen where you could collect the name and other info for the
person taking each particular course.

You cannot just create the options in the form and pass them to the
cart, they have to be the same options as entered into the product's
Ordering Options section in order for the options to be valid in the
cart. If you use ShopSite-generated pages using the normal ShopSite
templates you can setup a particular product with an Ordering Options
Pull-down menu, then check the checkbox in Edit Product Layout for
'Display Ordering Options' and Publish, then look at the product on the
store page and see how the form is generated by ShopSite and how the
options match the options in the cart.

If you are not using ShopSite-generated pages, I would suggest that you
make a test page, put on that page a test product with a Ordering
Options pull-down menu and the 'Display Ordering Options' checkbox
checked, then you can Publish it and see what the form looks like.

You don't have to have the Ordering Options pull-down on the store pages
at all, though, if you have a product set up with a pull-down(s) then
those options will show up in the shopping cart for that product, you do
not have to pass them in from a store page.

-Loren



Grateful wrote:

Loren,
Is the form only available with ShopSite 6 and above? My site is all
ColdFusion and I can generate forms from my training database with exactly
the needed options if I can just use that form. And do I have to use the
product database or can I send all the options including price to the
shopping cart? I will still need an option so they can fill in an attendee's
name.

I really do appreciate your help! But, I feel like I'm trying to ask you to
solve all my problems. Is there a help page I can find this info on for my
version?

Thanks!

Val

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3DC853B7.51F651BC@yahoo.com...
1) You can add a text field under each product, check the checkbox in Edit
Product Info for "Customer Text Entry". You can use this to ask for the
names
or other info you need for each course ordered.

2) You can set these up as Ordering Options pull-down menus. In the
appropriate
field in Edit Product info you could set up two pull-downs like this:

Select a Course:
Course A
Course B
Course C

Select a Date:
Date A
Date B
Date C


However, if every course isn't offered on every day you may need to put
every
combination in the pull-down like this to make sure you don't get someone
ordering a course on a date that it isn't offered:

Select a course and course date:
Course A on Date A
Course A on Date B
Course A on Date C
---------------------
Course B on Date D
Course B on Date E
Course B on Date F
--------------------
Course C on Date G
Course C on Date H
Course C on Date I


If you don't like how many option that gives to the product, then you will
need
to separate the product out into a separate product for each course, and
it
would then just need a date pull-down like this:

Select a date for this course:
Date A
Date B
Date C


If you are using ShopSite Pro v6.1 or newer, then you can add a ;n after
the
lines of the pull-down menus that aren't valid options (like the 'select a
...'
option or any dividers used like in my second example) in order to make
sure
that a valid option is picked before they can checkout.

-Loren



Grateful wrote:

I tried this question back in July and even though I think someone
e-mailed
an answer, I can't find it now. There is renewed interest in getting
this
project up and running. Any suggestions out there? I'm using version
5.0.1
and we're stuck with that for a while as our ISP is planning to charge
us
the entire amount for hosting and hourly for the upgrade!

Anyway, here are the original questions:

I would like to integrate our training course catalog with Shopsite. I
have
two problems:
1. We do corporate training, where the person ordering the classes is
typically not the person taking the class. So, what I need on the
shopping
cart is to attach some information about who's taking the course along
with
what course they're taking.
2. We offer over 150 different courses and each of those is offered on
different dates. I don't want to add a product for each course. I just
want
a product for each price. So, I'll need a way to identify the course and
date.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks!
Val