bda.plone.orders

Shop order storage and management.

This package is part of the bda.plone.shop stack. Please refer to bda.plone.shop for installation instructions.

Integration notes

The order actions are done with background images in CSS, so if you have your own theme that is not based on Sunburst, you will have to add the "icons.on" part of Sunburst's base.css.

Customizing Orders

If you've added custom fields to the checkout (see bda.plone.checkout), chances are high you want to add them to the order emails, order summaries or the order export.

Please follow the instructions in Customizing the shop in the bda.plone.shop Readme first to setup the patch infrastructure.

After that you can start customizing the order process:

def patchShop():
    patchMailTemplates()
    patchOrderExport()

Mail notifications

Order related notification is done by sending multipart mails containing a text and a HTML version of the notification payload.

When customizing mail notification, both text and HTML templates needs to be customized.

WARNING:

As of bda.plone.orders 1.0a1, signatue of bda.plone.orders.MailNotify.send changed. It accepts now subject, receiver and text as positional arguments and an optional html argument.

HTML Templates

Default HTML templates are located at bda.plone.orders:mailtemplates. To customize them, copy the entire template folder to your integration package and patch bda.plone.orders.mailnotify.MAIL_TEMPLATES_DIRECTORY like so:

from bda.plone.orders import mailnotify
import os

mailnotify.MAIL_TEMPLATES_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__),
    'mailtemplates'
)

Text Templates

Copy the messages you need to customize from bda.plone.orders.mailtemplates and change the text to your needs. There are two dictionaries containing all the strings, ORDER_TEMPLATES and RESERVATION_TEMPLATES. Its a nested dict. On the first level is the langugae code, the second level is subject, body and delivery_address. Change them i.e. like this:

from bda.plone.orders.mailtemplates import ORDER_TEMPLATES
from bda.plone.orders.mailtemplates import RESERVATION_TEMPLATES

ORDER_TEMPLATES['en']['body'] = """
This is my heavily customized confirmation mail."""

RESERVATION_TEMPLATES['de']['body'] = "Ihre Reservierung ist da!"

When updating bda.plone.order to a new version, make sure to keep them in sync with the original templates and check if all stock variables (such as global_text or the @@showorder link which have been added in version 0.4 are present.)

Customize notification mechanism

Alternativly you add/replace the notification methods and implement your own very custom. To do provide your own two functions similar to bda.plone.orders.mailnotify.notify_checkout_success and bda.plone.orders.mailnotify.notify_payment_success. Then

from bda.plone.orders.mailnotify import NOTIFICATIONS

# register as additional action
NOTIFICATIONS['checkout_success'].append(my_notify_checkout_success)
NOTIFICATIONS['payment_success'].append(my_notify_payment_success)

# OR
# register as replacement:
NOTIFICATIONS['checkout_success'] = [my_notify_checkout_success]
NOTIFICATIONS['payment_success'] = [my_notify_payment_success]

Order Export

To make a new field show up in the export, just add it to the list ORDER_EXPORT_ATTRS.

In this example we include the company uid we added in the example for customizing bda.plone.checkout right after the company name:

from bda.plone.orders.browser.export import ORDER_EXPORT_ATTRS

def patchOrderExport():
    idx = ORDER_EXPORT_ATTRS.index('personal_data.company')
    ORDER_EXPORT_ATTRS.insert(idx+1, 'personal_data.uid')

Order details

To show the data of the new field in the detail view of the order customize bda/plone/orders/browser/templates/order.pt using z3c.jbot or by registering the browser page for your policy package's browserlayer or themelayer:

<browser:page
  for="zope.component.interfaces.ISite"
  name="order"
  template="my-order.pt"
  class="bda.plone.orders.browser.order.OrderView"
  permission="bda.plone.orders.ViewOrders"
  layer="my.package.interfaces.IMyBrowserLayer"/>

WARNING:

as of bda.plone.orders 1.0a1 the template location changed from browser package to templates folder in browser package. Please adopt the location if you customized the template via z3c.jbot in your integration package.

Invoice view

The invoice template is bda/plone/orders/browser/templates/invoice.pt. It can be customized via z3c.jbot or by registering the browser page for your policy package's browserlayer or themelayer:

<browser:page
  for="zope.component.interfaces.ISite"
  name="invoice"
  template="my-invoice.pt"
  class="bda.plone.orders.browser.invoice.InvoiceView"
  permission="bda.plone.orders.ViewOrders"
  layer="my.package.interfaces.IMyBrowserLayer" />

Restrictions with souper.plone

Make sure you do not move orders or bookings soup away from portal root. This will end up in unexpected behavior and errors.

Vendor support

bda.plone.orders supports the concept of vendors. A vendor is able to manage his products and view orders and booking related to this products.

A vendor has his own area, which is a container somewhere in the portal. To enable vendor support for a container, navigate to it and apply Enable vendor area action on it. Then navigate to local roles management view of this container and grant Vendor role to the desired users.

The users granted the Vendor role is now able to see order related views and perform order related actions in the context of this container.

Permissions

In general, custom shop deployments are likely to configure the permission and role settings according to their use cases.

The Permissions bda.plone.orders.ViewOrderDirectly and bda.plone.orders.ViewOwnOrders are granted to default Plone roles rather than Customer role. The Customer role is intended to be granted as a local role contextually. The @@orders and @@showorder and @@showinvoice views should be callable on ISite root. So a possible customer might be no customer on the site root.

Following as listing of the permissions and its purpose:

bda.plone.orders.ViewOrderDirectly

Grants view access to single order data related views, which are protected by ordernumber and related email address.

Currently order details and invoice are implemented as such views. A link to them is sent in the order confirmation mail after successful checkout.