Does anyone know how to get first time buyers on packing slip to show up? We currently hav[...]

JoAnne Low (741)

[%show_order id:'[@order_id@]';%]

[%param *body%]

[%set [@reg_date_unix@]%]

[%format type:'date' format:'#D#M#Y'%][@registration_date@][%/format%]

[%/set%]

[%set [@date_placed_unix@]%]

[%format type:'date' format:'#D#M#Y'%][@date_placed@][%/format%]

[%/set%]

[%if [@reg_date_unix@] eq [@date_placed_unix@]%]

<h1>SEND FIRST TIME BUYER VOUCHER</h1>

[%/if%]

[%/param%]

[%/show_order%]<br>

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Erik Merkley

That's almost right, just change

[%param *body%]

to:

[%param *header%]

The body portion of show_order runs once for every line item on the order.

Just be aware that a customer can register for an account and then come back to place an order later. Your method only catches orders when the customer signs up for a new account at the same time.

Reliably determining whether this is the customer's first order is unfortunately much more complicated (and I'm not sure it's even possible). If it's a big deal for you I could try and work on a script to do it.

Erik Merkley

Ok I actually tried to do this properly. To the best of my knowledge it isn't possible to achieve with B@SE code.

Technical details for Neto staff:

The only way I can think to achieve this is to use [%thumb_list type:'orders' %] to count how many past orders the customer has. Unfortunately running [%thumb_list type:'orders' limit:'10' %] inside a [%picking_list%] tag just writes out orders from the noreg customer, rather than running in the context of this pick slip's customer. The same still happens using a [%show_order%] tag. I guess there's no way in B@SE to impersonate a user context, even for back-end print docs. Showing the number of previous orders for a customer on pick slips is something I've had requested several times. Would be great to find a way to do it in B@SE.

JoAnne Low (741)

Thank you so much for your help Erik that will mostly work for us, except on a few occasion - we can probably get away with it. Is there more documentation for me to learn base@tags? I've been finding it hard to find more info from the basic documentation. For example do you know what I'll use if we wanted to print a message if a customer bought from say a shoe category?

JoAnne Low (741)

Thanks Erik, Yeah I have been through the main docs and it feels alot like decrypting some secret code. Do you happen to know how I can print out a message if someone has ordered from a shoe product category? Thanks again

Erik Merkley

Did you expand the previous post? That has some sample code which will act as a starting point for you.

JoAnne Low (741)

Thank you Erik. You are a legend.