Anybody know a way to create a preorder on Magento 1.9.
I need to create an order and send a link to my customer to pay it later.
But the most important thing is that as a user I should be able to go to checkout page.
Actually, my problem is that the stock in some products is reduced to zero, in that situation users can't go to the checkout and can't complete the order.
simply enable backorders
System > Config > Inventory
This setting will only affect new products. Already existing products need to be edited to accept backorders
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There are many products in my company.
Like Atlasian, I want to create a service that allows my company's products to move pages only for the products that customers have.
In order to do so, you need to know the products of each customer, and I need to make sure that only those products can be clicked, but can you not use the database?
Using the database makes it so complicated that I want to implement it as simple as possible.
You need to know a programming language/ framework that allows you to create a service/api.
There are various ones available.
Search on the internet.
The architecture of a service is slightly different from directly having a data entry form that stores into a database.
Most apis'/ service entails you creating classes to do CRUD operations(i.e create,read,update and delete operations) by coding classes and then consuming the API into the application.
So yes you can have within the API classes that can be called and then used to store information that the customer has installed into a database, and also retrieve product values specific to a specific customer.
See API as mid layer between front end,and database
I've been doing some experiments on my data storage and for that reason I've created a handful of fake ACLs . Now I want to delete them . So I queried the data storage using the following :
select * from dm_Acl enable (row_based)
But then I realized that there is no such attribute as date created or modified or any thing else related to date what so ever . Then (with doubt) I thought that alcs might be considered as DM_SYSOBJECT but then I queried a specific alc name that I had in mind but there was no result . I was wondering if there is any approach for me to meet my objective ?
I think you must not delete ACL based on their creation date (moreover this is not possible), as there are might be objects referenced with an ACL.
So, I think what you really need is to delete orphaned ACL objects (which are not referenced with any objects).
There is a dm_DMClean Documentum Job which does exactly this.
However, I'm currently not sure if it deletes orphaned custom dm_acl objects or only automatically created ones which name starts with dm_45.. (I haven't been working with DCTM for a long time already), but it is easy to check - make sure you have an orphaned ACL, run the job and check if your acl was deleted.
Sergi's answer is pretty much good, but I had issue with deliberately deleted ACL's on production environment. Whole issue was fixed by simply creating new ACL's. It seems that there is no additional link between object's ACL property and ACL object itself, so in case of a problem it should be easily fixable.
Since you say this is your development environment you can go ahead and delete ACL's you don't want to have in your environment. In this situation it's wise to run ConsistencyChecker job from time to time.
Check for orphaned ACL's, if there is no orphaned objects then try to query objects you created during your development period and JOIN ACL properties from created objects to dm_acl table.
I haven't started the coding yet and really just want to get feedback on my ideas.
I would like to know how to store a users shopping cart contents in order to be able to retrieve them once they have returned to the website.
I'm confused with the idea of allowing users to create accounts, as I've read on this website that forcing people to create an account with you in order to put items in their shopping basket is bad practice. However, if I do give the ability to have an account, then I can create a table holding the accounts information, along with having a column for storing that users shopping cart content via the CI Cart class' function $this->cart->contents; (which I would then have to serialize before putting it in the table, right?).
I also wanted to know if it is possible to store the contents of a users shopping basket into a column as stated above, and then retrieve it back to display as the users shopping basket contents once they log back in.
Having an account would benefit in terms of having your shopping cart items available in different browsers, as they would be associated with the account and not your session.
But if I don't want to implement customers having accounts, do I just have to implement the Cart class, with no interaction with the database (and just setting the session variables in the config file to not expire, or expire in a year etc)? I don't understand why I would need the ci_sessions table in this case (any arguments for using it?)
Really confused because I've pondered over this for a long time, getting more confused as time goes by :(. Could someone please shed some light for me. Thanks
I think its always a good idea to get customers to create accounts because
Its a good way to stop span. Only allowing registered and logged in users to access the checkout stages is a lot better than just letting anyone get to it
Its also a good way to gather information about your customers that can be used for marketing
In regards to the cart you can save sessions to a database by making sure sess_use_database is set to true in the config files
$config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE;
That way you can add the customer previous items into the cart when they log back in.
But I agree with #dispake you've asked quite a lot of questions so its hard to give you a definitive answer
i have Magento e-commerce system with Mysql and windows based POS system written .net with MSSQL Database,
what's the best way to manage the stock in real time ?
Solution 1
to write a cron job to export transaction to xml file then send the data, also to read the update data from the POS via ftp.
and on the POS system to create widows server to read the xml file to update database and after export xml to update Magento when ever there is sales or manually changes into the stock.
Solution 2
can i create a web service to update stock on both ends?
Thanks in advance.
Real time is almost always a tricky beast to tackle.
What I would do is utilize the Magento API to get and set the information you need regarding the stock. You may find that the Magento API is a little slow. Alan Storm has some good articles explaining the ins and outs of the API at his blog at alanstorm.com. I would look there if you want to know more.
Alan Storm also has released his own API called MercuryAPI. This could possibly help you.
Otherwise you could just create your own API endpoints for what you need to handle. I have found that sometimes this is your best bet. The one thing you have to remember is that you alone are going to be responsible for securing anything you make on your own (just be careful). In your case, you probably will be dealing with the Stock Item models of Magento. You don't necessarily need to handle the entire product model to just update stock levels.
I trying to find a way to determine if meeting details have changed so I can update the records of it in a database that is used to display the details for the meetings on a web site.
I know there is Appointment.LastModifiedTime but that also changes when a response is returned. I want something that will change only if there was an update to the meeting details.
I've seen Appointment.IsUnmodified and tested it with a new meeting but it still returned false.
Does anyone know of a reliable way to check this?
On a side note, is there any id associated with an item that I can use as a reference in the db? I've been using itemID, but i read that under certain circumstances that will change. Is that true?
You can store the ChangeKey along with the UniqueId in the database.