Allow Conditional Actions to display text in a cart pane
joachim - October 8, 2009 - 11:15
| Project: | UC Discount Framework |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Here's a use case which at the moment I think I can only solve with code:
- store has a member discount
- 1) if the user is a member, the cart should say 'This subtotal includes your member discount'
- 2) if the user is not a member, the cart should say 'Become a member to get a discount on these products!'
Could this be done with CA?
I'm thinking if uc_cart provided a 'Display on the cart' action, then a discount applying predicate could supply the text?
I'm not sure I properly understand all the workings of the cart and CA, so I don't know if the flow of things would allow this -- eg, could it go in the same predicate or would an extra one be needed?
#1
Conditional Actions is more of a decision engine than a tool used for displaying components on the cart page like this. I'd really just have to recommend either a couple of custom blocks w/ the block visibility adjusted based on user role or a simple cart pane in a custom module.
#2
Right.
But I don't think this use case is obscure or unusual. Customers like to see a confirmation that they are getting their discount.
And the block solution means replicating the condition elsewhere in code, which completely destroys the point of having CA -- because the store admin can't change the way the discount works, because the block code won't follow.
So if UC discount can't handle this case, that raises the question -- is the CA-based implementation of UC Discount sufficient?
#3
I don't see any reason why UC Discount couldn't provide a cart pane that checked for discounts and notified the customer there... I guess I just don't see how this figures into a core solution. : ?
#4
I don't understand all the flows involved that well, and I figured that since UCD is largely a bunch of stuff on top of CA, it should happen in CA. Plus I wondered if there be any other cases where CA outputting to a cart pane would be useful.
But let's move it to UCD.
#5
Oops.