[Typo3-shop] Some questions about tt_products

[Menno Appelhof]

"Franz Holzinger" <franz at fholzinger.com> schreef in bericht 
news:mailman.1.1119370479.25790.typo3-project-tt-products at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hello Menno,
>
>> 1. Dealers have to log in to enter the dealersection of the site. Is it 
>> possible to remember the user and use his account info for the shop so he 
>> doesn't have to log in again?
> If you mean they log in into the front end as fe_users then this is 
> possible already. You have to combine it with the front end user login 
> extension (see bananaguard example in the manual).

Yes, they have to log in at the front end as fe_users. I will dig into the 
bananaguard example.

>
>> 2. When I add a FE user there is a discount field in the form. Is it 
>> possible to use that field with tt_products to calculate the discount?
>>     Our dealers have there own discount percentage which I could enter 
>> when I add the user account.
> There are several possibilities to make a discount for dealers. But the 
> discount field makes it easier. The second possibility is to use the 
> price2 field for dealers. And maybe there is an other possibility which I 
> did not explore yet.
>

I think the discount field is the easiest  way to use then. Specially 
because the discount is different per dealer and not per product.

>> 3. I have read the question from Rainer Suthoelder about product 
>> variations. Do I add different prices for the variations the same way?
>>     for t-shirts with different color and size enter "red;green;blue" in 
>> variant1 and "S;X;XL;XXL" in variant2. Then for pricing "1;2;3;4"?
>>    Or do I have to make a new product for every variation/price?
> It is only possible to enter one price for one product. You can apply 
> different attributes but only one price and maybe a discount price.
> This is because of the database records, where you only have a  price 
> varchar(20) which can hold only one price. But you can misuse the 
> accessory field to hold an addition to the price e.g. for a frame of a 
> picture. So you can combine this to have 2 prices for one product.

I think it will be the easiest way to enter the different colours as a 
different product. It is not something like red +2.00, Blue +1.50. They all 
have complete different prices.

And to Rainer:
Yes, your question (and the answer/solution) was very helpfull. Basically I 
try to dig my way through user questuions and hints/tips when I run into 
problems before I ask for help. I learn a lot that way, specially how it's 
not to be done ;o)

>
> Franz

Best regards,

Menno