Order Anywhere with multiple product issue.

[NaTaS]

Ok this is going to sound a bit crazy but I have a request to build a small app that utilizes the order anywhere linking system which should be straight forward but for some reason its not working at all.

Request:
Allow users to select multiple products from our website and allow each product to have a customization (freeopt).
Example: Customer selects 3 of the same product and each of the products can have an engraving on them which the engraving text is sent with the freeopt param.

The issue I am running into when doing this is that when the customer selects 3 of the same product (same SKU number) and does different engraving on each of the products (Requested by the client) I have to create a string similar to the following.

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order.cgi?storeid=*16d7c8204c1420ca07c7fb49f0&dbname=products&function=add&sku=100044&100044:qnty=1&100044:freeopt=test1&sku=100044&100044:qnty=1&100044:freeopt=test3&sku=100044&100044:qnty=1&100044:freeopt=test2

But when the cart sees it I receive the following error message: Please specify a valid value for the Quantity

I have so far determined that the issue lies in that I am passing the same sku number in multiple times with the exact same quantity count. The issue I have is that is exactly how the client wants it to work.

Any help with this would be great.

Thanks in advance.

[JCGrafted]

This is probable NOT the best solution, but it might be a way to get it to work. It looks to me that the problem is that you are sending all three at once. Try this:

1) Set a JS (or other) function on your page load that looks for a flag you set in a cookie.
2) when there are multiples of an item store them in the cookie and turn on the flag
3) submit the first one which will reload the page
4) flag tell JC to delete the first one from cookie and submit the next...

It is a bit clunky and the page will blink a couple of times, but it should work.

JCGrafted