timsage Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 OK, so here is my problem My sight when up and running wild deal with electronic components from the 1970's & 80's I have a huge number to catalogue, ans am doing so rather well. Where Prestashop lets me down with one massive clang is as follows. Say a customer orders 200 plus components for a project. Each component is different. Thus each one will be stored in a different location. For example I have 40 plus storage cabinets with 50 draws in each cabinet. Each draw is divided into 50 compartments. So in the "Location (Warehouse)" section i put a transistor OC79 in cabinet 21, draw 27 divider 31 "Location (Warehouse)" would show 21-27-31. "00 Combinations for this one order When I go to the orders section to see my customers order to process it, it is useless. It tells me what the customer requests, bit not where it is. I have to click on all 200 items. Please tell me that there is an easier way, or that the page can be altered into something of more use, and that it will not cost me, s I have not earned a penny as yet. Help Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 If you can do some custom coding, you could modify AdminOrders.php to include the location in the back office. The location for an item is stored in the ps_product table with the field name location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hesketh Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Hi Tim, Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for, but it'll not require any development costs or even that much time. Could you print off a list of all your components in a spreadsheet/table, ordered by their Product ID/SKU, so you could look at the each product ordered and refer to a list on your desk? Or some sort of Excel spreadsheet where you can arrange the columns or search? Sorry, I know its really basic, but it's an idea until you have the time/expenses to look at something more technical. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsage Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Thanks for the advice. I am not much use with php coding (sorry this is not a hint for someone else to do it for me), but I can see what I guess I could try. Thing is, with such a good written program, I am somewhat shocked that the designers could have such a simple oversight, and I feel that they should address this issue, as to me it is just as bad as having no VAT calculations, yet that has been sorted for us. UMMMMMMMMMMMM Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsage Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Just has a look at the AdminOrders.php, and must confess that I really do not want to mess with this. PHP just adds way too many lines of code for me to simply hack a form. I think it is a new module that is needed, where in addition to the location, it also has a check box for item picked. I feel the designers have focused far too much on the orders page layout to resemble a piece of a4 paper. What would work is the following When you click on the orders tab, it shown all pending orders, you select the order, this opens a page with customer details, and what they have ordered, and quantities and bin locations of products. After each item is processed by clicking on a tick box to show each item picked, you save. Next you go to the processed orders tab, this lets you finalise the order by simple dispatch. Less than this I find it hard to run a successful business. Beyond this I think Prestashop a good and sound bit of software Regards Tim (just hope the program editors pick this up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kranzler Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Hi Tim, We recently had another user suggest this as a feature for future versions of PrestaShop here. If you would like to see this implemented, please click on the "vote" button so that our developers can see that there is demand for this as a default feature. -Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsage Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Well, I did have one Idea that sort of works, then I tired to be a smart ass, and nothing happened. Here it is I see that the "Reference:" and "Supplier Reference:" both show in the order form, so I thought, lets put lm location of product in the "Supplier Reference" Field. It Works (well why wouldn't it). Then I got smart and edited the "AdminOrders.php" form. I changed the "Supplier Ref:" text to "Bin Location" Created a new order, and looked on with glee as the darn thin proudly stated "Supplier Ref" not "Bin Location" I edited the form again and found that where I changed "Supplier Ref:" it had changed back again??????????/ Real puzzled, or have I got PHP all wrong. Tim Will go ot the voting page Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsage Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Well, give me the wally of the week award. My little change did work, only I had edited the "AdminOrders.php" from my dummy install called Shop, and not my actual shop, thus I was creating an order in one whilst editing the other. DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsage Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 So now I have edited the AdminOrders.php file with Bin Location, I now want the Catalog Info page to reflect this too. Any ideas Can't seem to find the php file to edit. Regards Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hesketh Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I think you're after /admin/tabs/AdminProduct.php line 2228 <td class="col-left">'.$this->l('Supplier Reference:').'</td> I haven't tried it but I'm pretty sure this is. The only thing you should be aware of is these changes will be overwritten if/when you update Prestashop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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