Improve order comment notification between admin/seller/buyer
mpaler - October 8, 2009 - 01:39
| Project: | Ubercart Marketplace |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
I'm going to try to crack this myself -- but I just thought I should list it here as a bug:
1. Order comments are not being listed in a seller's view of an order (see attached).
/user/xx/selling/fulfill/xx
2. Feature request: It seem to me that when a seller adds a order comment, the store admin should be notified in addition to the buyer.
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#1
mpaler,
When you get some code worked out or a patch, can you please post it here so we can review/commit it? Thanks.
#2
Hi,
Attached is a patch fixing number 1 above. It also contains the fix for the bug reported here: http://drupal.org/node/556312
It's rolled against the February 12, 2009 release of 6.x-1.x-dev
I'm finding that #2 above is part of a larger issue of communications structure among Store admin/Seller/Buyer and will require a larger restructure. I believe there should be more granular control over comments and to who they get delivered via email notification. For example here's the variety of scenarios:
1. Admins can post a comment with an email notification sent to either buyer only, seller only, or both.
2. Sellers can post a comment with an email notification sent to store admin only, buyer only, or both.
3. Store admin can restricts all communication b/w the seller & buyer.
All comments are tracked and logged for paper trail.
These variations are complicated and apparently beyond the scope of conditional actions and would probably require some amount of new code. I'm going to move the status to code review, but after that we should move it to feature request.
Mike
#3
changing status for code review.
#4
will test in a little bit...
#5
#1 is fixed in the latest -dev.
#2 needs some work, more ideas or patches are welcome.
@mpaler: to implement your ideas don't we just need to split the "Send notification" checkbox on the comments page into "Send buyer notification" and "Send seller/admin notification"? The restriction is already available via the "write own order comments" permission.
#6
#7
Hi Longwave,
That sounds like a good approach. I'll probably be able to look into this sometime in the next month or so. Unless someone gets to it sooner ;)
Mike