Quick Updates plugin [support]

[pickledshark]

Hey paulm,

Great mod!

I wondered what you meant by "Needs GV check to be added!" on the new specials functionality. It isn't working for me at the minute and I am going to dig in and see what the problem is, but wondering if this has something to do with it.

Cheers,
Carey

[pickledshark]

I found the problem.

If you only show the field for specials price including tax then it gets ignored. The same goes for the normal price. You need to have both fields showing on the form.

Also the specials doesn't support a percentage change, only a value.

Regards,
Carey

[paulm]

Hi Cary,

the warning:

Needs GV check to be added!

I added because he script needs to check that no discounts are assigend to gift vouchers. If you make sure yourself you don't apply special prices to gift vouchers it's no problem.
BTW: the code for this is not complicated, I just got about 1000 uncomplicated (and some complicated) code edits to go before it's finished :-) (and of course it's never really finished..)

But you should be able to add/edit/remove/status update specials I think. Or least the latest beta does (but I really can not release that one publicly).

If you mean you can't do markups on the specials yet, then it is correct. Also not difficult, just one of the many todo things. The main reason I did not add it yet is that I was thinking about adding a more general markup "vertical update" feature. So that it would also become possible to markup/update all displayed products names or weights or whatever, in one go. But maybe I just want to much.... ;-)

[paulm]

Oops, did not see you last reply before posting mine.

I will check for the possible tax/markups issue, when I do tests next time, but I can't promse anything.

[chadderuski]

Using 2.03 under 1.3.7

I just noticed that if I have a category with only 1 item, it does not show up when I bring up the quick update window.

Is there a fix for this?

Liking this very much so far. Looking forward to ver 3.

[kelvyn]

Wow! Great to see a new version coming along - but I see two different files there:
# quick_updates-v3.0-beta-2.zip
# quick_updates-v3.0-beta-6.1.zip < this has more files in it.

I'm guessing that the higher number is better! Can you confirm?

Thanks!

[paulm]

@chadderuski: I did some tests, but I can't reproduce the issue with 1 product in a category in 2.03 (which does not say it's not possible, it certainly is). Do you have it with any 1 product in a cat? Does it happen within both the master cats and linked cats view?

@kelvyn: the higher number indicates its newer, but it's not better by definition. v3.0-beta-2 is probably more stable and better/safer for practical usage, that is why I left it there after releasing newer versions. And v3.0-beta-6.1 should actually be replaced soon (it has quite some bugs for sure). And it looks like v3.0-beta-2 misses some files (probably it's best to use it as an upgrade for 2.03).

I think I will start a new thread about 3.x (which I already should have started some time ago). Because most issues with, and fixes for, 3.x will be totally unrelated to any 2.x version.

[pickledshark]

Hi Paulm,

With the specials tax issue it is just a case of in the big switch it is checking for the specials field that does not include tax - just needs a bit of logic here. I haven't done it as I can work around it.

The way specials are done is a bit of a pain for me anyway. Unlike the salemaker, it doesn't record the actual type of offer you are doing - just the ammended price. So if you update the base price the special doesn't change.

This causes me a problem because I use global update and would like the special prices to be in sync with the imported prices.

But this is both irrelevant and nothing to do with your excellent mod!

Thanks again for the great contribution.

[chadderuski]

Hi Paul - okay, this is like when you take your car to the vet and it totally behaves... LOL. Now I cannot reproduce it, but I am CERTAIN that it did do it. Should I be using "Master Category View" for everything. I do not think I have linked categories yet, and that was the default view I had when I noticed this.

I have a feature request:

The ability to add/edit extended price breaks. I have been editing the main price in your module, then jumping out to edit extended pricing. This would help data entry flow.

Any plans on adding text or sql imput/output?

Can't wait to see what you do in version 3!

[infocom]

Does this mod allow price updates of attributes too? I would like to find a solution that will list all attributes in a table and the client can just go through and update instead of chooing each one individually.
Thanks