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Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Wednesday 08 October 2003 6:32:43 am Hi, Many products need further specification besides amount when ordered. An example is a sweater where the buyer also needs to specify size and color. Also, some of these settings might affect the final price. So, how does one provide additional settings for a product? Is it a datatype, or what? Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Sam Wong	Sunday 12 October 2003 9:52:39 am I asked similar question and people told me I should be using matrix datatype.
Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Monday 13 October 2003 1:06:48 am Hi Sam, Thanks for the tip. Have you tried it out? Do you know anything about the matrix datatype. I did an extensive search for it here at the ez.no site yesterday, but found nothing. Thanks in advance ! Sincerely, Eirik Johansen Netmaking AS http://www.netmaking.no/ Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Alex Jones	Monday 13 October 2003 6:49:33 am I don't think there is a way for the Matrix datatype to affect the item added to the shopping cart. Though I hope I am wrong in that belief as it would make my life much easier. Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>
Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Wednesday 15 October 2003 5:47:33 am Then what do I need to do? Considering the seemingly endless possibilites of eZP, this should be fairly easy to accomplish. Sincerley, Eirik Johansen Netmaking AS http://www.netmaking.no/ Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Alex Jones	Wednesday 15 October 2003 6:41:17 am Wish I had a clean answer for you Eirik. I had to build ten different extended product forms to account for the different combinations of our products. This was rather annoying to say the least. I spent a lot of time trying to find a different solution, but had no luck. I truly hope eZ systems increases the flexibility of the shopping cart to account for these variations. Right now the e-commerce functionality is far too focused on items that do not have variations like books, software and CDs. Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>