[Solved] Commerce : Content type and product

By JoeWeb01 on 23 Jun 2017 at 09:22 UTC

Hello everybody,

I know that there are a lot of topics about this but I didn't find the right one about what I would like to do.

Here is the full description of what I have (and would like to do):

The user can create a content type ACTIVITY which is directly available on the website. This ACTIVITY has some available places and the places can be booked. Once a place is booked then the available places are updated (-1). So to book a place the visitor must use the Commerce module (to pay).

So what I would like to do is :

Use my content type ACTIVITY with many values (price, total places, remaining places, ..) that I want to use as a product. The price will be the price of the product and the remaining places the number of available items.

Is there an easy way to do that? Or just a way to do that?
I worked a lot on this topic and I must maybe take a step back (I'm sure that I miss something).

Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments

Watch some videos on youtube

sprite commented 23 June 2017 at 09:39

Watch some videos on youtube about Drupal Commerce configuration.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drupal+commerce+tutorial

Drupal Commerce intro series (bad audio, but good content)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLO7nt48omE&list=PL-Ve2ZZ1kZNRjLDQiRgZ1v...

Also, study some commercial Drupal distributions that already implement "booking" type use cases, and integrate with D7 Drupal Commerce, such as the following:

http://demo.morethanthemes.com/bookingplus/commerce-default/

A commercial distribution like the one above would probably save you a person year or two of work.

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Thanks for the links. I

JoeWeb01 commented 23 June 2017 at 09:42

Thanks for the links. I already took a look but I'll do it again. Maybe I miss something...
But in my case this is a little bit complex because this is one user (registered user) who can create the activity.

If you start from scratch,

sprite commented 23 June 2017 at 09:48

If you start from scratch, you have an impossible task.

You really should spend a couple weeks studying something like the commercial booking distribution at the link above, because starting from something like that as a base, will literally save you a year or more of work.

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Once you figured out Commerce

onejam commented 23 June 2017 at 18:51

Once you figured out Commerce, you might want to add this: https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_stock so you can limit the places to book.

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Thanks for the information.

JoeWeb01 commented 24 June 2017 at 11:44

Thanks for the information.
Actually the website is already created with a content type and if I'm right I have to use a product instead of a node to manage, among others the price, the stock, ...

As the idea to allow to book/sell the content type is new it's easier to allow a user to create a product than keep the both alive (content type and product).

Is it a good way to proceed? I think yes and I'll continue to read the documentation.

Regards,

Here is now the summary

JoeWeb01 commented 28 July 2017 at 14:22

Here is now the summary concerning this topic.

Finally I created a rule which creates a product while the user create an activity. The prodct is linked to the activity and I can easily display the "Add to cart", stock and others fields in my node Activity.