Hi Allan, I used the product's SKU to indicate it and checked it in the signal. I made all those products SKU start with CSOON..... And I just checked in the signal if the product SKU startswith that. This also helped search for these products in the admin without any customization.
Hope it helps lzantal On Jan 31, 2011, at 14:44, Allan Stavely <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Laszlo! > > How did you indicate from the admin site that the product should never be > added? I'm trying to avoid a solution that (1) uses a special value of some > unrelated field as a flag, which I think is very bad practice in general, or > (2) makes me customize the admin site with added controls and database > fields, which I'd rather not undertake > if I have a choice. > > Thanks again, > > - Allan > > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Laszlo Antal wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I did that once and I used the signal to prohibit the product to be added to >> the cart. >> I am not front of my editor but I think the signal name was something like >> cart_add_veto >> >> lzantal >> >> On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:54, allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I need to be able to add products that are "Coming soon". They will >>> have names, descriptions and attributes, but customers won't be able >>> to order them. >>> >>> Has anyone done this? What is a clean way to do it? >>> >>> My best idea so far is to put them in a category named "Coming soon" >>> and then put logic that checks for this name into templates, e.g., >>> >>> {% if product.get_category.name != "Coming soon" %} >>> ... <widget that adds product to cart> ... >>> {% endif %} >>> >>> But this seems kludgy, fragile and hard to maintain. >>> >>> Use a negative price as a flag that a product can't be ordered, and >>> check for that in the templates? About as bad. Maybe worse, since >>> some developer may think of some other use for negative prices in the >>> future! >>> >>> Better ideas? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> - Allan >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Satchmo users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Satchmo users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
