Pass product variables by user selection - variables

I want to make a ticket sales site theme. As you might guess, most of ticket sales site using a flash based chair selection tool. Those systems using premade scenes which is audiences can select their chairs. I can make premade scenes with jQuery or flash but I don't know how can we handle this selection by Magento.
So, what I want to know that is it possible to pass a user specific variable in Magento? I mean, this variable should be available in checkout and backend as well. Could you please give me an advice to accomplish such an idea?

If this option can be selected from a fixed list of options, then what you want can be achieved using Configurable Products, or Custom Options.
If what you're looking for is a completely bespoke user-defined value, then this is pretty programming intensive, so if you're not a developer it's not an easy task.
Forgive the shameless self-link, but I've recently posted on this topic here:
http://mikebywaters.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/adding-custom-data-to-a-cart-item-in-magento/
In short, the post says that you can add an array of custom data to the quote when the item is added to the quote. For this, you’ll have to hijack the add-to-cart controller completely. To start with, take all the functionality from the existing controller. Look at the Mage_Sales_Model_Quote::addProduct() function and you’ll see that it takes two parameters like so:
$quote->addProduct($product, $request);
where $request is of type Varien_Object formatted like this:
$request = new Varien_Object(array(
'qty'=>$qty,
'options'=>$options,
'custom_options'=>$custom_options
));
Hope this helps.

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Use Piranha CMS Manager editor in application for other users

I am trying to create some dynamic forms using Piranha CMS. As far as I managed to learn it is not supported right now, so I'm looking for work arounds or alternatives.
What I want to do now is use the editor from the manager for other users. To be more precise: this is how the editor looks like inside my manager when I want to edit a page
I have a text input and a select, both are Fields and there are many more fields to be used.
I want the sys admin to create a page with a list of inputs like this, which right now are usable only by the admin. BUT make this list of inputs available for edit to other users as well. Is it possible?
I'm not sure how to extract this editor or behavior or even if it is possible. The problem is we really need the admin to be able to configure different form inputs for users as it is the main core of our functionality.
Any help/advice is highly appreciated, thank you!
The components in the management UI is not designed to be reused in the front-end application in any way. The edit models in the manager contains a lot of extra meta data since the UI is completely generic. If you want to build an edit UI in your front end application, and you're using MVC or Razor Pages, the simplest way is to.
Get the generic model instead of your strongly typed model, for example api.Pages.GetById(...) instead of api.Pages.GetById<T>(...).
Loop the available fields in your selected region (a region is an ExpandObject which can be casted to an IDictionary<string, object>).
Use the built in support in Razor by calling #Html.EditorFor(...) for the fields.
Using this approach you can easily create your own EditorTemplates for the different types of fields you use that will match the rendering in your client application.
Best regards
Håkan

Shopify Interact with product page HTML via app

We plan to create a Shopify app but we face some problems to find in documentations how to interact with pages.
I`m not sure we must ask every time users to add codes and etc, so I need to know if I miss something.
I need to interact with the product pages in Shopify from an app.
I search and read all the web for this and everything is how to start but not the actual examples.
I know for the ScriptTags and how to include them but that is.
If someone can give me a simple example of how for example to hide the Buy button and insert something on instead.
I know how to select it with the default theme with JQuery but what about all other themes?
There are two ways to interact with the front page:
1) Inject some code in the page ( the live one )
2) Use ScriptTag as you mentioned.
The code injection script will modify the product template for example and inject your code if you like to do this automatically or you can instruct the user to do so on their own, but if they are not code savvy there might be issues.
In addition this code will live only on the live theme in most cases. And if the user likes to delete your app at a specific time you must be sure to write the logic in such way that it won't affect the site if your app is no longer present ( since it will be really hard to clean up the files once you add the code automatically )
For this approach you will need to use the Asset API.
You will need to get the content of the file with a GET request to the file and make a put request in order to update it.
The better approach is to use ScriptTag API.
This will allow the use of a script file that will be attached on EVERY theme. This will not modify the theme files in any form or shape.
It seems that this is the approach that you are looking for.
Please have in mind that you will be the one hosting the file from your app so pretty much you can write what ever you like there. So if you like to use jQuery you must be sure that the themes have included jQuery or you will have to add the jQuery core code inside your script.
As for how to write a script tag, there is a pretty straightforward documentation here: https://help.shopify.com/en/api/reference/online-store/scripttag#create-2020-01

how do I force a field to be translated in my Odoo code?

I am developing a module for electronic invoicing, and should express the payment term in spanish, so I am setting a dictionary with all the needed fields, and when I do this:
{
...
'FmaPago': inv.payment_term.name,
...
}
The output file contains the value "name" in english. I've tried something like
_(inv.payment_term.name)
but with the same result.
How should I force the value to be expressed in a defined translation?
The field name of Payment Terms are already translatable. You can change the translation in Odoo by clicking the little button within a field in edit mode.
If you've done that correct, you have to avoid some typical mistakes at code side if you use the old API.
always pass the context
e.g. if you browse the invoice, pass the context, to get all translations correct
use partner language if you want to translate for them
Odoo is using user language in his context, to translate the web client correctly. If you print documents for customers, you want them in customer language of course...
So you maybe need to manipulate the context (key 'lang'). For new API you have to call with_context() to do that.
You must use _() for strings that you want to be able to translate.
You must make translating files *.po (as i remmember) and thats all I think.
Dont forget to check documentation link

Displaying documents SP2013 SharePoint Hosted App Model

So what are the cool kids using for displaying documents inside a SharePoint Hosted App Model? Right now, I'm doing rest calls and attempting to display the data using jquery datatables plugin. It works but isn't exactly usable, not to mention that I have to make additional async calls to get Author names, etc.
Should I dump REST and use CSOM and format the data accordingly? Build the hyperlink to the item, format date, build Author name.
Seems like I'm re-inventing the wheel here and want to make sure that I'm not overlooking something obvious.
Thanks
Out of interest, what about DataTables is not usable? If the data is in the JSON return, it can obtain the data directly. Sorry, I know this doesn't help you, but I'm trying to make DataTables better, so I'm interested to know what use cases it is failing to deliver on at the moment!

Umbraco 5 newb: Content from custom Table

I am currently investigating the possibilities of different CMSs for a company-site.
Done quite a few projects in classical ASP, ASP.NET, Joomla etc..
I would like to use Umbraco 5 for the first time.
For that project we have a SQL-Table with Job-Opportunities:
like: JobName, Department, Description, etc..
These should be listed on a page. In ASP.NET I would use something like a Repeater, etc.. with PageSize option and automatic paging.
In the Backend (Backoffice in Umbraco, I assume) there has to be an Insert/Edit/Delete Page with the corresponding input boxes, which are maintained by the company employees, not by web-developers.
Which route should I look at? I am completely stuck, is there an example anywhere?
Can I use my own data-tables, or could/should I use the Umbraco content tables for this?
Thank you,
Reinhard
Welcome to Umbraco.
If you choose to use a pre-existing database, you're going to need the following pieces:
an ORM to access read/write the data
a custom hive provider for that data to allow for Umbrace to read it as an entity
a custom tree to allow for editing and adding data in the backoffice
a macro to display the content on the frontend.
http://web-matters.blogspot.com/2011/11/umbraco-5-hive-provider-tree-editor.html
is a great place to start.
As you're probably picking up on, this is a lot of work.. so, most importantly: Are you trying to maintain two applications?
If so, do you really need to be able to edit the list in both applications? Your task would be much simpler if you only allowed editing from the other application, and displayed the read-only list using web services.
If not, ditch the custom database. Umbraco 5 is a full EAV/CR system, so unlike some CMS products, you'll be able to represent any rdbs structure you can imagine. The simplest way would be to create a custom document type with those properties to represent a job opportunity, and store those job opportunities on a new node in the content tab.
About document types: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/working-with-document-types