[TYPO3-commerce] rare checkout requirement: minimum weight in basket

[Morten Olesen]

hi list,

This would be completely off topic for this thread - but I cannot the 
the thread that this is a reply to - anyone else having this problem or 
is Thunderbird messing with me?

/Morten Olesen

Heiko Hänsge wrote:
> Hello Ralf,
> 
> Thank you very much.
> The solution does not take the 'minimum product weight' condition for 
> checkout into account so far.
> 
> regards
> Heiko Hänsge
> 
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> Ralf Merz schrieb am 29.11.2008 09:16 Uhr:
>> Hello Heiko,
>>
>> yes, it is possible to do this with commerce.
>> First of all, have a look in the commerce wiki on wiki.typo3.org:
>> http://wiki.typo3.org/Commerce
>> There, at 7.4 "tutorials" you find a link to
>> "Creating an extension that switches the delivery methods based on 
>> basket sum" http://wiki.typo3.org/Commerce/Tutorial/VariableDeliveryCost/
>>
>> I think this can help you.
>> The idea behind this is as follows:
>>
>> I assume that you have entered the weight as attribute.
>> You have to create your different delivery articles: shipping1 = 7 
>> Euro, shipping2 = 0 Euro.
>>
>> In pi2 you have to use the hooks "after adding an article to the 
>> basket" (or sth. like that). So before the basket will be rendered you 
>> can or have to change the delivery article.
>> For every article you can fetch the attribute 'weight'. So you can 
>> calculate the weight sum an then decide how to change the delivery 
>> articles.
>>
>> Maybe someone else has another idea to do this. My way would be like 
>> this.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ralf Merz
>>
>>
>>
>> Heiko Hänsge schrieb:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we have the following checkout requirements:
>>> - a customer needs to have an overall minimum product weight of 3kg 
>>> in the basket to be able to checkout, otherwise a message needs to be 
>>> shown
>>> - if there is less than 10kg of weight in the basket, shipping costs 
>>> of 7€ should be applied on checkout
>>> - if there is 10kg or more in the basket, NO shipping costs should be 
>>> applied on checkout
>>>
>>> As I couldn't find an appropriate hint in the manual to solve this 
>>> I'd like to ask here: Is it possible to do this with 'commerce'?
>>> And - if yes - how to declare the TypoScript needed? Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Heiko Hänsge