Is there a way to apply coupon on the whole category instead of one product?

 

or apply to a bunch of products?

 

Thanks

No. You will need to do customization.

Hey Luke, I am trying to customize this.

 

I modified the coupon.ascx to display new field for category. I added the categories as the dropdownlist. Is there any better way to do this?

 

<asp:TemplateField headertext="<%$ Resources:Common,ApplyToCategory %>">
                            <EditItemTemplate>
                                <span class="sign"></span>
                                <asp:DropDownList id="categoryID" runat="server" Width="206px">
                                </asp:DropDownList>
                            </EditItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>

 

 

protected void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        mvwMain.SetActiveView(vwAdd);
        dvwCoupon.ChangeMode(DetailsViewMode.Insert);

        //getting all the categories
        Category[] categories = Category.GetAll();

 

//storing the category ids and category names
        string[] categoryIds = new string[categories.Length + 1];
        string[] categoryNames = new string[categories.Length + 1];

        //first element in the dropdown list should be empty
        categoryIds[0] = "0";
        categoryNames[0] = "Everything";

        for (int i = 0; i < categories.Length; i++)
        {
            categoryIds[i + 1] = categories[i].CategoryId.ToString();
            categoryNames[i + 1] = categories[i].Name;
        }

        //bind that string array to dropdownlist
        categoryID.DataSource = categoryNames;
        categoryID.DataBind();

 

}

 

 

This loads fine on the page but i need to change the edit coupon part too. When i go edit, its displaying the empty list. I don't know how to bind the list when someone is trying to edit the coupon and set the selected index from the database.

 

Can you please help?

 

Thanks

You can use ObjectDataSource without writing code.

 

 

 

I need to add one more element to the list, Everything or NULL. How would i do that?

 

Also when i am updating or editing the coupon, i need the selected index to be the category assigned to the coupon already.

 

How would i do that?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Also, is there a function that i can use to get all the category ids to which a product belongs to?

 

If heriracy is like this

 

Category1-->Sub Category-->Product

 

Is there a function i can use to which i provide the product id and it returns an array of both the category ids??

 

because if the coupon is applied to category1, product_category_map table only has the relationship between SubCategory and Product.

 

thanks

 

 

 

 

I still need help with this

 

Hey Luke,

 

I fixed the error. Can you please help with

 

1.) add one more element to the dropdown list, everythinng or NULL.

2.) when updating the coupon, the selected value should display the assigned category to the coupon.

 

Thanks

Luke Anything on these two things?

 

Thanks

Sorry, we are busy in getting V4 out of door. You cannot expect us to answer every customization related question in a timely fashion. I will take a look at this once I have time.