[ic] CommonAdjust

[Dan Garwood]

Mike,

I thought I understood common adjust untill you just through that up there
and I am confused again. :-)
Guess I will go and read again.

Dan
E-Profit Designs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Heins" <mikeh@minivend.com>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] CommonAdjust


> Quoting Jim Balcom (jim@idk-enterprises.com):
> >
> > JC>>pricing table:
> > JC>>sku q12 q15 q16 q18 q20 q24 q48 q72 q75 q80 q96
> > JC>>AP-S 0.75 0.50
> > JC>>AP-M 1.25 1
> >
> > This is absolutely fantastic!
> >
> > Once I get my income taxes done, I'll try implementing this. It looks
> > easy when you present it this way!
> >
> > JC>>PriceField nonexistant_field
> > JC>>CommonAdjust   pricing:q12,q15,q16,q18,q20,q48,q72,q75,q80,q96:
;:price
> >
> > This one may confoozle me a bit until I play around.
> >
> > JC>>but there must be a better way if you can't predict what the breaks
will be.
> >
> > I can predict what they will be. But, it's just that every manufacturer
> > seems to set their own quantities per bag and bags per case. But, I can
> > set them up.
> >
>
> A little known fact about CommonAdjust is that you don't have to have
> them all be one, you can maintain multiple ones. Say you have as your
> default:
>
>     PriceField   common_adjust
>     CommonAdjust  pricing:q12,q24,q48,q96: ;:price
>
>     pricing.txt:
>     sku q12 q24 q48 q96
>     AP-S 0.75 0.50
>
>     products.txt slice:
>     sku price common_adjust
>     AP-S 1.00
>
> If item AP-S has nothing in the field common_adjust, it uses the above.
> If another item needs different and custom breaks:
>
>     # Same as above, repeated
>     PriceField   common_adjust
>     CommonAdjust  pricing:q12,q24,q48,q96: ;:price
>
>     price_special.txt:
>     sku q18 q36 q72
>     OR-S 0.90 0.75 0.50
>
>     products.txt slice:
>     sku price common_adjust
>     OR-S 1.00 price_special:q18,q36,q72 ;:price
>
> Now OR-S uses the CommonAdjust string from the database and ignores
> the default one.
>
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