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15 years 2 months ago #20874 by noelclarke
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Hi, first off - thank you for Hikashop. I've been using Virtuemart, and Hikashop is a very welcome relief.

My question - how can I set up products to sell by weight?

I'm building an online butchers shop and need to sell, for example, Rump Steak at £15.70 per kilo but have the shopper choose whether they want 250g, 500g, 750g, 1 kilo or 1.5 kilo and be charged the appropriate price. Other products can be sold per unit, say burgers, so that's no problem. I suppose I use the product characteristics but can anyone explain how this could work.

Thanks

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15 years 2 months ago #20880 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
You could indeed use characteristics: www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/i...html#characteristics

Create one characteristic weight with the values 250g, 500g, 750g, 1kg and 1.5kg and then add it to your products when editing them. Then, via the manage variants button, you can set a price for each variant.

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15 years 2 months ago #20881 by noelclarke
Replied by noelclarke on topic Re: price by weight
Great, thanks for that, but is there a way those prices can be worked out automatically from the one base price per Kilo?

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15 years 2 months ago #20882 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
Well, that's possible to do that as well but that require some custom coding: creating a custom field to select whether or not a product can be both by weight, another one for the weight selection field, the edition of a view to display or not the second custom field based on the first one value, and a plugin to calculate the price based on the weight and the base price.
If you know your way around in PHP, we have a documentation about the creation of product quantity calculation plugins: www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...tation.html#override

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15 years 1 month ago #22599 by MinnieMouse
Replied by MinnieMouse on topic Re: price by weight
so we used characteristics to this as described above, but then on the product listing page it says under price $2.99 each... ideally we would want it to be the variant label so $2.99 half-pint say...
which file would i edit to change this?

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15 years 1 month ago #22612 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
If you want to change the text "each" to "half-pint" you can do that by editing your translation file on the tab Languages of the configuration:
www.hikashop.com/download/languages.html#modify

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15 years 1 month ago #22614 by MinnieMouse
Replied by MinnieMouse on topic Re: price by weight
ahhh if it were only that easy i could have done it without help. LOL

i want the variation name to show up. i have for instance variations of half pint, pint and quart... each with a separate price...

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15 years 1 month ago #22619 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
Then, you could create a custom field of the type 'product' so that when creating a product you could choose between the different variations.
Then, edit the file listing_price of the view product via the menu Display->Views and change the line:
echo JText::_('PER_UNIT');

to use that custom field value instead:
echo $this->element->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN;

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15 years 1 month ago #22620 by MinnieMouse
Replied by MinnieMouse on topic Re: price by weight
will try that tomorrow... when my brain recovers :-)

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15 years 1 month ago - 15 years 1 month ago #22866 by MinnieMouse
Replied by MinnieMouse on topic Re: price by weight
so i added that line: echo $this->element->measurement; to the listing_price template and it works on the main show page but not on the listing_img_desc page. is there a different way to call custom fields on this page...?

sorry, i got it.. actually if you want it to work in both screens you need to call
echo $this->row->measurement;
Last edit: 15 years 1 month ago by MinnieMouse.

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15 years 1 month ago #22867 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
Yes. On listings, you have several products. So it's:
$this->row->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN;

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15 years 1 month ago #22868 by MinnieMouse
Replied by MinnieMouse on topic Re: price by weight
nicolas, where can i find the content for the links of the ajax popup when you have added something to the cart?
thanks Liz

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15 years 1 month ago #22869 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
It's the "notice" file of the "checkout" view that you can edit via Display->Views.

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14 years 11 months ago #26227 by BigDutch
Replied by BigDutch on topic Re: price by weight
how do i remove the custom field i just added to my product page from the default location, and just use it where i decide it should go ?

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14 years 11 months ago #26250 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
I'm not following you. Could you explain more what you want to do ?

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14 years 11 months ago #26275 by BigDutch
Replied by BigDutch on topic Re: price by weight
i created a custom field in product, and placed it as you suggested earlier in this topic to replace the 'Each', this is fine.

However it appears that you have also put a piece of code to display custom fields, so my custom field is called in a location where i didn't place any code.

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14 years 11 months ago #26281 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
Ah , that's because you set it to be displayed on the front end. You should turn off that option of your custom field and it won't be displayed on your product page.

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14 years 11 months ago #26430 by BigDutch
Replied by BigDutch on topic Re: price by weight
So i have 'echo $this->row->{MYFIELDNAME};' in the listing_price template as described above and the field is disabled in front end. On the category view it reads the custom field as expected (next to the price), however on product page itself the custom field is not shown.

If i enable front end for the field i see it in the right place in category AND product page (next to the price) but also in product page i have it shown under a H4 heading 'Specifications'.

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14 years 11 months ago #26454 by nicolas
Replied by nicolas on topic Re: price by weight
Maybe it's because your product has characteristics ?
In that case, you should try with this for the product page:
echo $this->element->main->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN;

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14 years 10 months ago #28497 by BigDutch
Replied by BigDutch on topic Re: price by weight
so i've ended up with the custom field disabled for the front end and this line in product / listing_price.php
Code:
echo $this->element->main->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN.$this->row->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN

because ...

$this->element->main->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN // this shows on the main product page but not on the category list page

$this->row->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN // this doesn't show on the main product page but DOES on the category list page

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