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Ok, another customization question. Hopefully this time I'm not missing something so obvious. We're going to be renting equipment and although our reservation system will not be automated I would like people to be able to pick what day they would like their rental to begin using a calendar rather then having to type it in. Is there an easy way to add a calendar control to the product pages? I have the developer edition if I need to get into the code to do so.
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I would do it by creating a custom product input (base it off of the text input), that uses a calendar control along with a textbox to select the date. To create an effect like this control provides, http://www.basicdatepicker.com/. You could actually just use that control in your custom input. |
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A far simpler way to do this (low, low tech...) On the product page, create a drop down choice with each month as a selection, and another with 1 - 31 as selections
Rental start month: August
Day of month: 24
Easy enough to scroll and choose and it shows up on emails and printed copies as plain ol' text. |
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Hi Mitch,
Using a date picker like I had linked to would also show up on e-mails and printed copies as plain o' text. It basically simply provides a visual interface for the user to input "8/24/2007" or "24-AUG-2007" depending on the output date format that you choose for the component. |
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Now that is slick. Make me wonder what else is out there that I should be using.... I love Shipper and had it on my SF6 site. I'm just getting into Andy's Shipping Rate Suite.
Any other cool stuff out there? Where do you start to look? |
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My personal preference for the best UI controls available are Telerik's RadControl Suite at http://www.telerik.com they have some good stuff. I'm designing some bvc pages based on a few of their controls. But other major UI component providers include Infragistics, ComponentArt, and ComponentOne. Those 4 tend to round out the major ones (note none of their products are free). You can usually find some less functional cool ui components that get the job by a good google search. |
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Jay,
Do you have a link to your site? I'm interested to see how you handle the rental model using BV.
Aaron |
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<SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Me too. I'm working for a rental company and want to build a BVC5 rental solution.
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Sure, the address is http://www.glassandgear.com. The store isn't quite done yet but its getting there. The rental system at this point if very basic with most of the action taking place behind the scenes outside of bvcommerce. I haven't had a chance to integrate the date picker yet and I also have to add a reservation checkbox to all of the products. Once we open we're going to look into creating a some backend code to handle reservations from inside bvcommerce. Jason
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Jason, That's a pretty cool concept (renting lenses). How are you planning to handle the rental inventory on the site? We built a rental site for a local client (they only rent locally), and used BV primarily for the catalog functionality. Now they want to actually take payment (see what happens when you give clients a taste of what's possible?) so we will be doing some custom development in the near future. I don't think we will be implementing real-time inventory, though. You can view the site below. www.essentialpartyrentals.comAaron |
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The way this site is going to work is that you'll be able to place an order for an out of stock item and then we'll email the customer with an approximate delivery date at which point they can cancel the order or wait. If someone wants to place a reservation they'll be able to place the order and provide the date they'd like the reservation to begin and we'll confirm availability after the fact.
Jason
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Will you be asking for a credit card number up front? If so, that could be a sticking point for people since they won't know if they will actually get what they ordered at the time they want it. They can certainly be refunded, but all of that uncertainty may prevent them from ordering in the first place.
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Yes, we will be taking billing information at the time they order however we won't be charging their card until the equipment actually ships. If it ends up being an issue I think we'll just go to an "email me when the product becomes available" system. That with reservations should take care of everyones needs.
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Jay,
I'm curious as to the reason you are unable to simply use bvc inventory system to track your changes? |
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I may be completely wrong about this so if I am please correct me. Since we are going to be doing reservations BVcommerce won't accommodate all of the special situations that arise. If we have 10 copies of the same product each with different return dates and someone wants to make a reservation we'd need to check all of the return dates to make sure that a lens will be available and then when its time for the reservation to become active we'll need to reduce our stock in order to reflect that.
Jay
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