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  • Krishna 22 posts 52 karma points
    Jan 31, 2013 @ 11:15
    Krishna
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    Managing Products and Categories from the content section

    Hello all,

    I would like to be able to manage the Product and Categories from within the content section. The reasons:

    • It is easier for the content authors. They do not have to switch between sections.
    • Products will have a lot more information such as "Right Side Widgets" etc.
    • Support content approval workflows.
    • Linking Products to other sections in the site becomes easy. For instance, I can allow the content author to choose the Product he might want to promote on a given page.
    Is there a nice way to do this? If not, can you please review my approach below:
    • Create custom document types for Catalog and Product.
    • On create on these nodes in the content, programatically create products and catalogs in uCommerce using the API
    • Load the uCommerce details (though I will have to figure out the exact way of doing this. Perhaps a User Control Wrapper???) when viewing/editing any of the Catalog/Product pages.  
    This is perhaps an oversimplifying the solution but any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
    Warm regards,
    Krishna

  • Niels Jorck Ellegaard 39 posts 245 karma points
    Feb 04, 2013 @ 10:25
    Niels Jorck Ellegaard
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    uCommerce has its own section because it handles relations differently that umbraco does.

    A product can belong to more than one category, umbraco don't have that feature. Because of that uCommerce needs its own section.

     

    However you are able to select products, cateogries and more from the Content tree with a package with some custom datatypes.

    Link for the package: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ucommerce-datatypes

    With this you can make a product selector, which basicly selects the productId, which you can use in your code to display a specific product. The same way you can select various categories and much more.

     

    On the products themselves you can create various fields aswell to link to content pages or other products.

     

    I wouldn't recommend creating everything in the content tree as it simply makes things more difficult, both to maintain and develop.
    Twisting the arm on any premade system usually gives more problems than it solves.
    I personally like the split between content and products. It makes it easy to sort which data is related to the products.

  • Krishna 22 posts 52 karma points
    Feb 04, 2013 @ 11:22
    Krishna
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    Thankyou Niel for the response.

    I shall give my approach a rethought if selection of uCommerce products is supported out-of-box (using the package you sent in). Can you advise on any work-arounds for the content approval needs? That is, I would need the Product changes (in uCommerce) to be reviewed before being published.

    Warm regards,
    Krishna

  • Niels Jorck Ellegaard 39 posts 245 karma points
    Feb 04, 2013 @ 12:21
    Niels Jorck Ellegaard
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    I cant think of anything, without twisting the arm on uCommerce. But someone else probably have a solution for that with some custom controls with some custom tables in the database I imagine.

    However it is a good suggestion for a new feature to uCommerce as I'm sure your not the only one with the same request.

    I put the request up on the feature suggestion here:
    http://ucommerce.uservoice.com/forums/23685-ucommerce/suggestions/3619522-save-without-publish ;

  • Gopal 5 posts 25 karma points
    May 27, 2014 @ 13:49
    Gopal
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    after payment in ucommerce purchase order will generate but purchase order does not see in ucommerce order tab  admin panel.

    any body has idea please help me

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