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

[Morten Olesen]

hi list,

replying to myself here - seems the problem was with thunderbird and 
unfortunately the solution was to kill the cached news database :(

/Morten Olesen

Morten Olesen wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ------------ Original-Nachricht ------------
>> 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