Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook
Devcon 2020 Goes Virtual! LEARN MORE >

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Shopping carts

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    Shopping carts

    I tried and failed to setup a cart on my website back in 2011 - and now I'm on the same trail again! Having spent a few hours on this forum today, I am surprised that after all these years there still isn't a simple answer - unless I'm missing a trick.

    I am currently using Alpha Anywhere, I use .dbf and not SQL, and I still host my website internally. The last two items rule out Steve Woods and his cart, plus a few other developers. I have been talking to WorldPay - who I already have an account with - and they pointed me to:
    https://server.alphasoftware.com/blo...ed-mobile-apps

    But so far I have failed to get any real help from either company as to how to go about it.

    At this moment in time I have an .a5w page with a grid listing the products in my store. I can select a product and get it added as a new record in a table. Next I will build a cart page, but I don't know how to then get the relevant information to WorldPay.

    More importantly, I am fighting with the session variable code and after six hours of searching the docs cannot find a suitable answer. I have managed to create a session variable consisting of the date and time, e.g. '29/01/201829/01/2018 02:20:37 97 pm'. I am now playing with if/else functions in the hope that I might save the variable to a table field. I WILL get there one day - I'm sure. But surely there is a better way? (I chose this format for the session variable as I wanted a unique result for obvious reasons, plus I don't know how to display the visitors details, which I guess are cookies etc...)

    As has been said many times before, surely Alpha is missing a trick here???
    Tags: None
    #2
    Re: Shopping carts

    PS Just one more query please.

    How can I get the result of: ? session.cart_no

    to be saved to a record field? I am already managing to save the selected product information.

    Comment

      #3
      Re: Shopping carts

      Sorted! Simply added SESSION.CART_NO as the 'Calculated field expression' in the component field properties. Which gets me one step nearer.

      I believe I can now construct my cart page by listing all the records with the above session.cart_no value, but... then I've got to get my information to the WorldPay checkout. I think I will speak with them again as I didn't yet receive an answer from Alpha re WorlPay

      Comment

        #4
        Re: Shopping carts

        Building a form of shopping cart for my own app right now. In then end all shopping carts come down to the same set of basics: products, customers, invoices with line items, amounts, taxes, payment mechanism, shipping/delivery, and ideally, some confirmations along the way. Lots of packaged solutions out there (open source or commercial) but you'd then have to integrate your Alpha efforts with them. Perhaps when mine is up and running I'll share the structure and code with the forum.

        Comment

          #5
          Re: Shopping carts

          Dis you see the Amazon List Control UX? you can see the how at this link Videos Cheers Pete
          Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
          Albert Einstein, (attributed)
          US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

          Comment

            #6
            Re: Shopping carts

            The Amazon clone looks nice (saw it when it came out). It remains just a sample; one still has to build an entire e-comm framework to have an app suitable for release.

            Comment

            Previous template Next
            Working...
            X