Wombat inventory adjustment

[wcw]

Are we going to see the next beta soon? I'm ready to tackle the inventory adjustment when deleting individual baskets. The current API is

<MvDO FILE = "{ g.Module_Feature_INV_DB }" NAME = "l.ok" VALUE = "{ InventoryProductCount_Adjust(l.basketitems[l.q]:product_id,l.basketitems[l.q]:quantity) }">

Is that going to change since product_id and quantity only identifies the base product. Or is that going to be a wrapper function that somehow identifies the attributes and gets it all? Or is there a new function that includes the attributes for the specific basketitem involved?

Jon - Examples would be nice. :-)

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Wombat inventory adjustment

Yes you'll see the beta stream soon, probably before Thanksgiving. You can see a preview of it in action here, don't mind the performance of the hides, Jon is working on that today.

http://demo.yellowtee.com/EO/EO-Ahi.html

Pick a combo and then notice the available inventory down on the bottom under the product picture, change combos, the inventory will change. If you look closely you'll see it hide things that are out of stock.

[wcw]

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Very sexy! The dynamic hide and inventory update is very cool. What a giant leap forward this is going to be. I just hope I can figure out the API for things like deleting individual items. I have a lot of modules that interface with the inventory.

[Rick Wilson]

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Jon swears to me it's all backward compatible, I'll have him post more details on the API stuff shortly.

[wcw]

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How are you going to handle the template changes, if any? I don't think you guys have been making template changes to existing pages in updates lately. Seems like this is going to require some store morph code changes. Then again, maybe not. You control the array of options before the store morph code. Hmm. Can't wait to see how this will play out.

[Brandon MUS]

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Give that page a shot with JavaScript turned off.

[Rick Wilson]

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Brandon,

The advanced display stuff will require JS, but the underlying inventory system does not. So with JS turned off, people could try to buy things that are out of stock and will get an out of stock message when attempting to add to basket.

The beta may not be as pretty, but that's how it will work in the end.

[Rick Wilson]

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How are you going to handle the template changes, if any? I don't think you guys have been making template changes to existing pages in updates lately. Seems like this is going to require some store morph code changes. Then again, maybe not. You control the array of options before the store morph code. Hmm. Can't wait to see how this will play out.

In order for the auto hide features to work there's a component someone would have to add to their existing templates. It's only one line.

[Brandon MUS]

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Brandon,

The advanced display stuff will require JS, but the underlying inventory system does not. So with JS turned off, people could try to buy things that are out of stock and will get an out of stock message when attempting to add to basket.

The beta may not be as pretty, but that's how it will work in the end.

There's an issue in the demo where it doesn't seem to load the initila states of the drop down menus correctly. Click the link to go to the demo store. Pull down on the "Size" drop down and notice the "6g" option. If you select that one, your "Material" gets forced to "Amber Horn".

[Rick Wilson]

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Brandon,

Good catch, something's not loading right the first time. We'll figure it out.

[RayYates]

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When is Wombat expected to be out of Beta?

[Rick Wilson]

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Wombat will be formally released once we have our final PA-DSS Certification, my best guest would be first 2 weeks of January.

Also Beta 4 with Inventory at the Attribute/Kit Level should be out this week sometime.

[wcw]

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I'm probably going to do the beta 4 stream tomorrow as things are slow on the weekends. If I read the post on beta 4 correctly, are the attribute/option hiding feature only available in the css framework? If you are using mmui, you won't see the hiding but the out of stock messages will still work, right?

Jon posted the source kit for an earlier wombat beta which does not include all this new beta 4 stuff. Would it be possible to get an updated source kit soon?

I'm really interested in the examples related to the first post in this thread.

[Rick Wilson]

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You can make the auto hide/price stuff work in MMUI, you'll just need to add all the item stuff related to "attributemachine" in that long post I made last night (from Jon).

[Rick Wilson]

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We're going to do an LSK on Beta 5 which will come out early next week.