SKU in cart display

[Ken Lanxner]

Is there a way to NOT display the SKU column in the cart -- other than
CSS? None of my products are set to show SKU.

Thanks.

Ken

[Jim]

If you are using ShopSite 7, yes. If you are using a previous version, no.

In ShopSite 7 the tag [-- SC_Cart --] displays the table with the
shopping cart items. You can also add parameters to that tag as follows
[-- SC_Cart quantity name sku price total --]
If you want to not display SKU use the above tag and leave out the 'sku'
part of it. Using the above tag you can also rearrange the items so
they appear in a different order.

Note that you would need to make any changes to the [-- SC_Cart --] tag
in possibly 5 different places in the shopping cart template since the
product table appears on the Shopping cart, Billing/Shipping,
Confirmation, Thank You and Receipts screens.

Jim


Ken Lanxner wrote:

Is there a way to NOT display the SKU column in the cart -- other than
CSS? None of my products are set to show SKU.

Thanks.

Ken

[Ken Lanxner]

Thanks once again, Jim. I knew there had to be a way!

Ken

In article <c4mle7$jbm$1@support.shopsite.com>,
Jim <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote:

If you are using ShopSite 7, yes. If you are using a previous version, no.

In ShopSite 7 the tag [-- SC_Cart --] displays the table with the
shopping cart items. You can also add parameters to that tag as follows
[-- SC_Cart quantity name sku price total --]
If you want to not display SKU use the above tag and leave out the 'sku'
part of it. Using the above tag you can also rearrange the items so
they appear in a different order.

Note that you would need to make any changes to the [-- SC_Cart --] tag
in possibly 5 different places in the shopping cart template since the
product table appears on the Shopping cart, Billing/Shipping,
Confirmation, Thank You and Receipts screens.

Jim


Ken Lanxner wrote:
Is there a way to NOT display the SKU column in the cart -- other than
CSS? None of my products are set to show SKU.

Thanks.

Ken

[Ken Lanxner]

In article <c4mle7$jbm$1@support.shopsite.com>, Jim
<jstavast@xmission.com> wrote:

If you are using ShopSite 7, yes. If you are using a previous version, no.

In ShopSite 7 the tag [-- SC_Cart --] displays the table with the
shopping cart items. You can also add parameters to that tag as follows
[-- SC_Cart quantity name sku price total --]
If you want to not display SKU use the above tag and leave out the 'sku'
part of it. Using the above tag you can also rearrange the items so
they appear in a different order.

Are any other parameters allowed? Any way to display a custom product
field?

Ken

[Jim]

The only other option is "delete" which can only be used on the shopping
cart screen. The "Remove" button will only display if you have set the
option to use a remove product button under Comerce Setup > Order
System > Shopping Cart >Display remove buttons. I don't remember off
hand if this is just a Pro feature of if it is available in Manager
stores also.

Is the information in your custom product field unique to each product?
If so could you use it as the SKU for the product? Then you could
just change the header text for the SKU part of the shopping cart table
and have that information displayed.

Jim

Ken Lanxner wrote:

In article <c4mle7$jbm$1@support.shopsite.com>, Jim
jstavast@xmission.com> wrote:


If you are using ShopSite 7, yes. If you are using a previous version, no.

In ShopSite 7 the tag [-- SC_Cart --] displays the table with the
shopping cart items. You can also add parameters to that tag as follows
[-- SC_Cart quantity name sku price total --]
If you want to not display SKU use the above tag and leave out the 'sku'
part of it. Using the above tag you can also rearrange the items so
they appear in a different order.


Are any other parameters allowed? Any way to display a custom product
field?

Ken

[Ken Lanxner]

In article <c4p7om$mvu$1@support.shopsite.com>,
Jim <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote:

Is the information in your custom product field unique to each product?
If so could you use it as the SKU for the product? Then you could
just change the header text for the SKU part of the shopping cart table
and have that information displayed.

No, the custom field is Manufacturer and is not unique to each product.
We have a variety of similar products but made by different companies. I
know I could prefix (or suffix) the product name with the manufacturer.
But that makes the product page displays less clear.

And that leads to another question. When uploading the products
database, we have a choice of unique product identifier -- SKU, name, or
none. What happens if we select none? Do we lose some functionality?

Thanks.

Ken

[Jim]

If you select "none" then all products in the data will be added to the
store even if they already exist so you would have duplicate records.
This option would typically be used if you had emptied the store's
databases and uploaded all records in a new file.

Jim

Ken Lanxner wrote:

In article <c4p7om$mvu$1@support.shopsite.com>,
Jim <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote:


Is the information in your custom product field unique to each product?
If so could you use it as the SKU for the product? Then you could
just change the header text for the SKU part of the shopping cart table
and have that information displayed.


No, the custom field is Manufacturer and is not unique to each product.
We have a variety of similar products but made by different companies. I
know I could prefix (or suffix) the product name with the manufacturer.
But that makes the product page displays less clear.

And that leads to another question. When uploading the products
database, we have a choice of unique product identifier -- SKU, name, or
none. What happens if we select none? Do we lose some functionality?

Thanks.

Ken