Question about manual promotions

[Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>]

If you are creating an order using the backoffice order entry you have 
the ability to manually specify a promotion for the order (i.e. using 
the drop down boxes in the "manual promotions" box in the show cart screen).
The promotions listed there are all the promotions defined in the 
system, not only the ones associated to the store.
When I originally implemented this feature I did it intentionally: the 
idea was to define a promotion without conditions (i.e. always 
applicable) but detached from the stores (if we associate it to the 
store, it would be always applied to all the orders); if the order entry 
operator wants to apply the manual promotion, he/she can select the 
promotion from the drop down box.
Now I would like to improve this support and I would like to specify the 
manual promotions that are applicable to a given store.
What is the best way to implement this?

Two proposals:
1) add a new promo condition type "MANUAL" and set the promo context so 
that it evaluates to true only if the promotion is manually added to the 
cart
2) add a ProductPromo.isManual flag and select in the drop down list of 
the "Manual Promotion" box only the promotions associated to the store 
and with the isManual flag set to "Y"; these promotions should be 
ignored by the standard automatic promotions

Jacopo

Re: Question about manual promotions

[Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>]

David E Jones wrote:
> It's an interesting idea. Maybe a better place for the isManual (or 
> maybe a better name is manualOnly?) flag is on the
> ProductStorePromoAppl entity...
> 
> -David
> 

David,

this is a *great* idea, thanks!

I'll immediately go for it.

Jacopo

Re: Question about manual promotions

[David E Jones <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> If you are creating an order using the backoffice order entry you  
> have the ability to manually specify a promotion for the order  
> (i.e. using the drop down boxes in the "manual promotions" box in  
> the show cart screen).
> The promotions listed there are all the promotions defined in the  
> system, not only the ones associated to the store.
> When I originally implemented this feature I did it intentionally:  
> the idea was to define a promotion without conditions (i.e. always  
> applicable) but detached from the stores (if we associate it to the  
> store, it would be always applied to all the orders); if the order  
> entry operator wants to apply the manual promotion, he/she can  
> select the promotion from the drop down box.
> Now I would like to improve this support and I would like to  
> specify the manual promotions that are applicable to a given store.
> What is the best way to implement this?
>
> Two proposals:
> 1) add a new promo condition type "MANUAL" and set the promo  
> context so that it evaluates to true only if the promotion is  
> manually added to the cart
> 2) add a ProductPromo.isManual flag and select in the drop down  
> list of the "Manual Promotion" box only the promotions associated  
> to the store and with the isManual flag set to "Y"; these  
> promotions should be ignored by the standard automatic promotions

It's an interesting idea. Maybe a better place for the isManual (or  
maybe a better name is manualOnly?) flag is on the
ProductStorePromoAppl entity...

-David