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Hello,

It seems that the bread crumps is wrongly generated when you follow this sequence of events:

- Select a category
- Select a product to display details about this product
- Use the back button to go back to the list of products
- Click any header to sort the product lists

This results in product name to be displayed in the bread crumps.

This can be reproduced in the demo application

I am not sure I really agree with everything. Moving things into another layer does not make it faster. Also, the problem would definitely be worse on a heavily loaded system, but it can happen with only 2 clients connected as well... It's just a matter of bad timing of requests.

I still think that would require a patch to be supplied as not everyone would have the possibility to upgrade very easily. Specially, since it's involves the struts part of the application which is quite likely to be customized. At a very minimum I would think that a "known issues" page would be necessary and a quick explanation on how to solve it would be nice. I'll try to post my solution later on.

I hope I am not coming accross as someone difficult, but I really hoping to improve konakart this way. I guess this would be better suited in an issue tracking system.


Cheers

Nicolas

Hello all,

Today I was looking a bit more in the struts side of the konakart demo application and it seems to me that there is a major flaw in the current design. Indeed, one of the basic principle of struts is to NOT have any instance variables available in an Action (see for example http://struts.apache.org/1.x/userGuide/building_controller.html#action_design_guide for more information). In the BaseAction, there are 2 pretty important member variable (kkAppEng and custId) which violates this principles. This is really a major problem in a heavily loaded application where multiple requests originating from multiple clients would be able to "see" each kkAppEng... I could easily simulate a problem by setting a breakpoint in an execute method and then having 2 clients connecting. I could easily add an item to the shopping cart of another client.

I am going to look at solving that problem now, but I would really recommend to patch that version asap.

Cheers

Nicolas

Hello,

It seems that the column orders_products.products_model should have been a varchar(64) and the equivalent column in products is a varchar(64) (at least in the mysql version).  This could results in a "malfunction" at checkout which does not look very good.

Cheers

Nicolas

Hello,

It seems that the categories tile is not properly displayed when you access the site using some URL (without going first to the home page). For example, if you try,

http://www.konakart.com/konakart/PrivacyNotice.do

directly. The categories tile is empty.

Cheers

Nicolas

However, don't you think that it would be a better user experience if you could do this in real time

Well I agree that this is the best scenario, unfortunatelly it is not always possible to know at the checkout time if the product is in stock or not... We have started a small shop (http://shop.daesim.com) based on quotations only (this is clearly not our main business), but more as a service for existing customer. And we don't want to go as far as to try to know if our distributors have products in stock. For the timebeing we just use konakart up to the point the customer send us is order. Then we process all manually (again we are a very small shop). We could use konakart a bit furter if it was possible to edit the order (including the price of each item) and send it back to our customer so that he issue a purchase order based on the real price (we display only RRP price) and products.

I know this is probably not the way that most of the shop are working, but I still believe editing an order  is a feature that would be necessary for a lot of different cases.

Cheers

Nicolas

Also it would be nice if we could use other order statuses than the one currenlty defined.

Sorry, I did not notice this was already feasible in the current admin application.

Nicolas

Hello,

I think it would be nice if an order could be edited in the admin application. For example, if a product is not in stock anymore, we should be able to suggest alternatives products to the user and if he agrees we should be able to change products in his order.

Also it would be nice if we could use other order statuses than the one currenlty defined.

Cheers,

Nicolas

Thanks a lot Trevor for the quick fix. I have applied it and it seems to work fine.

Cheers

Nicolas

It does not appears that there is an official way of reporting bug, so I am just posting here. Please let me know if I should do it somewhere else.

It seems that there is a bug in the method mentionned above. This problem can be seen on the demo site if you click on the category DVD/Action  then select a manufacturer in the select box in the top right corner, then select back "All manufacturers" in the same select box. This will result in no products being displayed.

Best regards,

Nicolas

Thanks Paolo for the answer. It's quite reassuring to know that the source code is avalaible if necessary. For the time being, I can leave with the current configuration as our main problem task now is to see how we will manage product data. But at some stage I believe we will need some more tools in the admin section and we can then think about how we will implement that.

Cheers

Nicolas

Hello,

We are investigating the use of Konakart as a shopping kart. So far it seems quite good, but there is really one big problem: there is no way to customize the admin application. The admin application is quite nice but it will never be possible to make it flexible enough to accomodate everyone needs. For example, I would like be able to issue a quotation, edit an order to add/replace products in case some products are not in stocks and the list can go for ever... Are there any plan to release the sources of that applications (even if it is not for free)?

As a side note, I wam wondering if there is not a bug in the code that delete products/categories, because I think after I delete a few of them, some customer could not access their cart content anymore. After a deleted everything from the tables customers_basket and customers_basket_attributes, everything was working again...

Cheers

Nicolas