thanks for the clarification. It confuses me even more
Instead of products, I think in licenses, and as we all know, they are calculated according to the use of an image.
For example:
The price of an image for use in a book is usually calculated with the information about the required image size, the print run, the distribution area, etc.
The use of the same image for a website is based on other options and the use in a magazine is based on other different options.
The easiest price management - and it works very well with the Cart-addon - is for prints, postcards, books, calendars, so no problem.
But it is more difficult with licensing for editorial and commercial purposes.
Here the example from the already posted link to the price calculator of lookphotos can serve.
Please have a look at it. Our solution does not have to look the same. It would only be important to be able to add the products with their different options to a category.
Is that feasible???
I think what Olivier would need is an option to provide more than one pricing scheme such as {editorial, commercial, consumer products} instead of just default. If more than one pricing scheme is provided, then the cart would have an additional top-level selector.
Another approach might be using a pricing scheme as I suggested before:
Then with some javascript magic, the category name needs to be extracted and a new selector created. Obviously the product lists would need to be adjusted accordingly.
Olivier (@volvoxturbo), as a workaround I would just try to define your offerings using the long product names. I think that you should be able to define whatever you need using them. Granted, the product names become a bit ugly by being so long, but at least you should get something going. Maybe create a test gallery so you can verify that, apart of categories, all other settings you need are feasible with Backlight’s cart module.
“…need is an option to provide more than one pricing scheme such as {editorial, commercial, consumer products} instead of just default. If more than one pricing scheme is provided, then the cart would have an additional top-level selector…”
Hi Oliver, that would require a major change to the cart, and is not something that would be feasible.
Another option is to redefine “Product” to be a Licensing field instead. See this album as an example: http://backlight4.somethingchanged.com/galleries/album/
Hi Ben, thank you for your time! I will think about this concept and will get back later. Would it be possible to add a 2nd field eg Usage below licensing?
In Backlight go to Cart > Settings > Languages and click on Manage Language.
Right at the top, change TEXT_PRODUCT to Licensing.
Scroll to the bottom of the same section and change Product (as appears in form for adding items to cart within galleries) to Licensing as well and save.
In the Add to Cart dialog box, the top item that was labeled Product is now labeled Licensing. In the checkout screen, the field that was labeled Product is now labeled Licensing as well.
In Cart > Products, create products that are named after your licensing categories: Commercial, Editorial, etc.
Dear Rod,
thank you for your quick reply!
I understand better now.
The use of the three categories only makes sense if selecting one shows a list of different types of usage, e.g.
yes and I followed his instruction.
You can try it:
Please check https://www.oliverblum.com/archives/architecture-archive/auditorio-de-tenerife/
Just click on the icon. The Add Item Card shows up. Play around and you will see no percentages.
But after changing the type of use - e.g. book to magazine - the percentages appear.
I titled the new product “editorial”.
Added Attribut Name “Type of usage”
Added option 1 “book”, option 2 “magazin”
All attributes with their options added after, are related to the options before (book, magazine, website, etc.)
But “book” needs other options than “magazine”, needs other options than “website”…
earlier you had
Product: license type (book, magazine, etc)
Attribute: license attributes for each type of license (run time, page size, placement, etc)
Option: price for each license attribute
you can’t add any more options after that so I think the way you had it earlier is the way it will need to work.
