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IfOnly
VP-CART New User
United Kingdom
90 Posts |
 Posted - December 30 2004 : 10:07:27
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Is there a way, either using the browser, or downloading the DB and using Access, that I can reduce all prices by 20% for a sale month and then return them to the original at the end of the sale.
Regards
Phil
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - December 30 2004 : 10:52:29
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if i were in your shoes, I'd just run sqls to change the cprices rather than muck about with discount data etc; that'd be simplest/easiest.
and then make sure your product templates use the formatsaving function to display saved values.
ie in your templates have:
our price: [cprice]
rrp: [retailprice]
you save: [formatsaving cprice]
and then run sqls at the beginning/end of the sale.
if it's something you'd do fairly regularly, then it'd be a good idea to setup some basic asps that allow you to enter the reduction pct and then press a button to apply or reverse the price-savings accordingly (ie to run those sqls), you definitely shouldn't have to upload/download the database etc; just run some sqls via the site in asps.
eg to apply a 20% saving, your sql would be:
update products
set cprice=Round(
(
cprice * (
(100.0-20.0)
/
100.0
)
)
,2)
**important note!** to reverse a 20% discounted price, you would NOT multiply the reduced price by 1.2! (I think you'd divide it by 0.8 if my algebra's correct) which would make it look like....
update products
set cprice=Round(
(
cprice / (
(100.0-20.0)
/
100.0
)
)
,2)
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
Edited by - devshb on December 30 2004 11:03:36 |
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IfOnly
VP-CART New User
United Kingdom
90 Posts |
Posted - December 31 2004 : 12:00:05
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Simon - thanks ever so much for the time and trouble you have gone too.
I will try and implement this on a test basis during next week after the New Year break - hope you will not mind me coming back to you then through the forum.
I need to gen up on where I enter the SQL's in the admin section and do not have experience with making/running SQL's through ASP pages.
Thanks again
Phil
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Phil |
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - January 01 2005 : 07:40:36
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I'm not sure if there's an admin area where you can run "execute" sqls (as opposed to normal queries) - we created a new screen for this on our admin, which was basically a copy of the advanced-query menu screen but without the query results/parsing etc so that it just did an execute command; we use it all the time for things like this.
if you've got sqlserver on your pc then you could just execute the command through enterprise manager, or your host might have a tool that will allow you to execute sqls via the web.
if you haven't got sqlserver on your pc, or a front-end tool from your host, tree the free/trial version of:
http://www.mylittletools.net/scripts/en/mla_sql/
it's great; very handy; just upload the asps they give you to your site and it means you don't need a sqlserver front end on your pc.
anyway, lots of hosts will block access to your sqlserver database via enterprise manager 'cos it's so full of security holes, so lots of hosts would probably point you in the direction of that kind of web-based tool.
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
Edited by - devshb on January 01 2005 07:42:39 |
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IfOnly
VP-CART New User
United Kingdom
90 Posts |
Posted - January 07 2005 : 09:25:34
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Thanks Simon
I forgot to mention that I am using an Access Database, that comes with VP-ASP 5.50.
The 'my little admin' script seems to be for SQL servers; is there something else that will work please.
Regards
Phil
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - January 09 2005 : 17:49:10
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you could login to the access front-end and run the update statements as a query (do create-query, then choose view>sqlview on the menu toolbar, then type in your update statement and then click the run button; that'll execute your update statement)
You could download your access file, run the query, then re-upload it again.
Alternatively, I understand that frontpage has got some kind of tool where you can open the access front-end remotely while it's still on your site, so you could try that.
Alternatively, you could create an asp that executes the update.
Also, the "mylittle" site also has an on-site access front-end too, like the sqlserver front end:
http://www.mylittletools.net/scripts/en/mla/default.asp
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
Edited by - devshb on January 09 2005 17:50:11
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