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Hi Gaëtan,

We do that all the time. Just post it to a page ID that would render the errors, much like it would render the contents of the basket.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Sorry for the late up, I'm only getting to do that now.

How do I do that concretely ? I've changed the url to post to a page with nothing in except template tags, but what I get in the "data" argument of my success function is simply the contents of the basket page itself. I've tried to add a cart paragraph to this page, same problem.

Does anyone have an idea ?

Thanks

Hard to tell what you have done and where it is not working.

You can see how we implement this on wrap: http://wrap.dynamicweb-cms.com/produkter/bikes/mountain-bikes

Here it is ajax based.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

In my interface, the user has 2 fields in which to type the product number and the quantity (repeated on as many lines are needed). The ajax call works fine, i.e the products are added to the basket. But what I need is a way to handle errors, mostly if the user types in a wrong product number. Right now it fails silently, the line is simply skipped.

Thanks

edit : Ok I see the way you do it is similar now. i'll get an eye on it

ok. I am not sure I have any great ideas for that without digging into your code.

I've tried to make it more like on the wrap, but still no luck. When I show my json page, I do get json (I use the JsonCart.html from the wrap). But when I post my data to it, I get an html page which is actually the basket. Is there something about using post instead of get like you do on the wrap ?

Here's my js code :

$('#direct-add').click(function () {
        var postData = {
            'cartcmd': 'addmulti'
        };

        var rows = $('.add-to-basket-line:visible');
        for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {

            var productNumber = $(rows[i]).find('input.input-product-number').val();
            var quantity = $(rows[i]).find('input.input-quantity').val();

            if (productNumber !== '') {
                postData['ProductLoopCounter' + (i + 1)] = (i + 1) + '';
                postData['ProductNumber' + (i + 1)] = productNumber;
                postData['Quantity' + (i + 1)] = quantity;
            }
        }

        $.ajax({
            async: false,
            type: 'POST',
            url: '/Default.aspx?ID=' + BasketSettings.DirectAddPageId,
            data: postData,
            error: function (data) {
                alert(data);
            },
            success: function (data) {
                alert(data);
            }
        });
    });

Ok i do manage to get proper json now. However if I put a wrong product number, where do i get the error in the template tags ? I've looked through them and through the loops and I can't see anything.

Here's what my url look like (with a bogus product number) : /Default.aspx?ID=9220&cartcmd=addmulti&ProductLoopCounter1=1&ProductNumber1=fsfdsfs&Quantity1=1

Ok, that's what I wanted to know to begin with. I'll code something myself then, but it would be nice in the future to have more (and easier) possibilities to implement json solutions for controlling the flow (maybe by having some default web services ?).

Several of our B2B customers have requested the feature I'm making right now and I guess it's not the last time i'll have to manipulate the basket via ajax.

Thanks.

Hi Guys,

A message that product does not exist would be helpful also for Reorder functionality where you don't get any feedback about what was added to cart or if it was added to cart.

Might be a bit of performance hit though, if the add to cart will also check the validity of the product.

Either way, it's a compromise. Better performance or better feedback.

Adrian