More than one instance of the Addendum

[lesliekirk]

Wouldn't you know it, I come up with a question for Bill right after he starts his vacation. I'm needing what might be two instances of the Addendum - with one only displaying when certain products are ordered and one displays all the time. It looks like the Addendum is all or nothing. In other words all questions are displayed or hidden using the "Display ONLY with these Product Codes: feature in the module. Or if the Secondary Questions Set could be controlled by the Product Codes - that would be awesome!!!

Maybe when Bill gets back he could add another function that would enable selecting which questions are controlled by the products. Or unless I'm doing something wrong

Leslie

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

AFAIK, you could use standard conditionals to determine which questions you want to show, while hidding the others with hidden.

so if you have three:

<input type="text" name="q1" value="">
<input type="text" name="q2" value="">
<input type="text" name="q3" value="">

But product foo needed only 1 and 2, and product bar needed 2 and 3 and product foobar need only 3

<mvt:if expr="g.product_code EQ 'foo'">
<input type="text" name="q1" value="">
<input type="text" name="q2" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="q3" value="">
<mvt:elseif expr="g.product_code EQ 'bar'">
<input type="hidden" name="q1" value="">
<input type="text" name="q2" value="">
<input type="text" name="q3" value="">
<mvt:elseif expr="g.product_code EQ 'foobar'">
<input type="hidden" name="q1" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="q2" value="">
<input type="text" name="q3" value="">
</mvt:if>


Of course use a custom field for the IF statement if there are a large number of products. Also, if there are a large number of variables.

[lesliekirk]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

So the <mvt:if expr="g.product_code EQ 'foo'"> would actually become custom field conditional since there would be hundreds of products this would be used for.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Probably, but the keu question is how many 'sets' of questions are they. For example, if you have five questions, and any one of the thousand of products would have either Q1,2,3, or Q2, 3, 4, 5, then you'd want to have a custom field called AddQuest, which a value of Set1, Set2, etc.

If there are dozens of sets, you might want to actually put the questions in a custom field for each product. (Code efficiency).

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

All I want to know is, who gave Bill permission to go on vacation at this time of year?!?!?!?!

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Who would make changes to a live site this time of year?<g>

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Who would make changes to a live site this time of year?<g>

I know. That would be as crazy as if Miva were to release an update to PR 8 during the month of December. ;)

Seriously though, stores do all sorts of promotions during the holidays, and so seldom used (as in annually implemented) features do get implemented around the big holiday push.

Also, the increase in traffic at this time of year does tend to expose "weaknesses" in a web site, so sometimes problems aren't really discovered until after Thanksgiving. For instance, I didn't know that a particular free shipping conditional I had implemented wasn't working until yesterday, and the only reason I found out was that the increased traffic meant more people were qualifying for this (rather limited) free shipping condition.

Further, some sites might try out various analytics programs and such that have a free month trial, since they figure if they are getting charged by the month, why not use it during the month when traffic is highest to get the most accurate figures?

[Rick Wilson]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

That would be as crazy as if Miva were to release an update to PR 8 during the month of December. ;)

Technically we launched it on November 29th ;)

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Technically we launched it on November 29th ;)

Sorry about that, Chief.

When you are working 80 hours a week, the months just seem to kind of blur together... ;)

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

IMO: Merchant launched PR4 in Late Nov to help insure that it would be a SLOW rollout<g>.

Mark,

Not to harp on you, but this is a very valid and serious point of owning and operating a business. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO NOT BE "TRYING" THINGS AFTER Oct. 30th.

This mean get your "infrequently used features" tested and readied. Try to enlist as many folks as you can to "test the site". (That being said, yea, its hard to duplicate the holiday madness...and not a good time for a developer to leave--that's why i've been getting about 4 hours of sleep a night since mid-nov...and why i am beginning to REALLY hate christmas...but an actual module should not be "breaking"

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Mark,

Not to harp on you, but this is a very valid and serious point of owning and operating a business. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO NOT BE "TRYING" THINGS AFTER Oct. 30th.

Understood and appreciated. :)

[lesliekirk]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Having some issues with the usage of a custom product field to conditionally display questions - so I've contacted Bill, now that he's back.

Leslie

[srmb]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Just found this thread that discusses my exact problem, but have an additional question.

If I set up say Question 1 and 2 to display for all products and be required, and I set up Question 3 to display only for certain products (about 10) but also be required, how will setting all 3 questions as required work if only 1 and 2 are displayed?
Will it create an error if question 3 is hidden because the product that triggers it is not in the basket, but it is on the required list in Addendum?

Thanks,
Shannon

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Simply, in the logic to create the hidden field, use:
<input type="hidden" name="Q3" value="NA">

(or use ANY value you want for the 'value' parameters. Now, Q3 = NA.)

[srmb]

Re: More than one instance of the Addendum

Thanks Bruce! I'm working on trying it out right now.

Shannon