CalcBuilder Forum

Hi,
ok, we assume the page you attach is not a hikashop product page with its custom fields, right? It's a form directly built with calcbuilder that you want to link with an 'add to cart' button once the results are calculated and shown at the page. This kind of integration with hikashop requires you to enable the 'add to cart' button for hikashop at the module/component configuration, and add some lines to your calculator, as explained here:

https://www.moonsoft.es/easyblog/entry/24-calcbuilder-extended-hikashop-integration

basically, if you have your quantity calculated as

myquantity

and your price as

myprice

, you only need to add to the calculator code section:

$hk_product_name='Write your product name here';
$hk_product_description='Write your product description here';
$hk_product_code='COD';

$hk_quantity=$myquantity;
$hk_pricehikaproduct=$myprice;


there are many other extra options, but with this code you should be able to add your product to the cart. If you have further problems to complete configuration you can share an access and we'll take a look to find out if there is any step missing.

Regarding file names, you should be getting a random number as the name of the file, something like xxxxx_cb.pdf , if you want to change it you can modify the function in charge of naming the file, here:

components/com_calcbuilder/models/calcbuilder.php
about line 750,798 and 802, you will find

$filename=rand(1000, 9000)."_cb.pdf";

or
$filename=rand(1000, 9000)."_cb.xlsx";

You can set any other name
$filename="mysite.pdf";
or

$filename="mysite.xlsx";

Hi,
ok, you can show the final price at the result section together with the rest of information, it doesn't matter if it's calculated on a different sheet. We can finish the configuration of this first product so you can see how all parts are linked, but we have a first an important question, based on your comment (The calculator page is not what I need to see on the product page)

There are 2 different ways to use a calcbuilder calculator together with hikashop cart. The first one is the solution you have created, you have a calcbuilder form, the calculate button gives you a result, a price and a full description if needed, and the add to cart button adds this product to the cart. The hikashop checkout continues normally from here.

The other one: you have a hikashop product at your catalog, and it contains the configuration fields that make the price change. They are hikashop fields, created as custom fields for 'item' at hikashop backend. The calculator is attached to this existing product, it recovers the user input fields from the default hikashop product page (with this option the calculator behaves 'silently' at the background), and when add to cart is clicked the product is added to the cart. The add to cart button and the rest of the checkout are the default hikashop ones.

We'd need to confirm first which is the solution you'd want to build, so we can finish your configuration in one or another way. Please zip the excel file before attaching to the ticket, so it won't be filtered by the firewall, thank you.

Hi,
ok, it shouldn't take long to finish configuration. But please confirm which is your url, we've rechecked this thread and we only find the user and pass some updates above.

Hi,
ok, we added a couple of changes. As you were returning the result price with a $ sign, we removed it before passing it to hikashop, it only requires a number, so it doesn't allow the currency sign. In order to add all the information from the result, we added all the result sheet to the product description.
At the javascript tab, we also added some quick styles for a better looking of the result, this is only an example, all rows and columns have their own classes so you can tweak them as needed and style specific rows and/or columns.

Hope this helps, regards

Hi,
if you want to send to the cart a new different product, with different price and different description, you need to create a new product, hikashop requires to have the product created on its database if you want to use it at the checkout. For the calculator you can set any parameter of the product present at the main hikashop database product table, for ex, setting 1 as the quantity available (so once 'purchased' hikashop won't publish it), with the sales date only for today/now..etc.

The other option we explained was to use an existing product of your catalog, was the 2# solution we mentioned above:

The other one: you have a hikashop product at your catalog, and it contains the configuration fields that make the price change. They are hikashop fields, created as custom fields for 'item' at hikashop backend. The calculator is attached to this existing product, it recovers the user input fields from the default hikashop product page (with this option the calculator behaves 'silently' at the background), and when add to cart is clicked the product is added to the cart. The add to cart button and the rest of the checkout are the default hikashop ones.

Or, if you don't want product checkout, don't use hikashop at all. If you ask for the user data at the calculator form, you can send yourself and the customer an email with all information of the request. But we assumed this was not valid if you have other products at the catalog that will follow hikashop checkout normally.

Yesterday we left the calculation, product and forward to cart function working (even with some style tweaks, although please note the configuration service is far away the scope of the support of the extension). The calculator is still working (attached), but the hikashop checkout is showing an error, probably you wrongly configured any checkout option at hikashop side (per the query, regarding shipping, maybe). If you can't see the calculator working, please refresh your browser and send us more details about browser, inputs used etc so we can reproduce here.

Best regards

Hi,
ok, sorry if our English is not clear enough, let's try to explain better:

- when we say the configuration work is not part of the default support it means the support (of this extension or any other one) solves questions regarding installation, errors, or specific questions about configuration. We have a custom calculator service for which we deliver the calculator ready to publish, but that is a different service from the extension support. We entered your site and finished configuration even adding some styling to have a better looking result. We understood you are in a hurry and you had everything almost ready anyway, so it's ok, it was only a comment.

- there is a section with all tutorials regarding integration with hikashop, at this site, tutorials->calcbuilder section. But each calculator has its own specific requirements so we don't mind to help with some specific needs (for ex, you wanted to add the whole result to the product description, thus the extra lines at the code section). Everything was working yesterday, we calculated many times, and we added the products to the hikashop cart, then we exit your site and updated the ticket, no more changes from this side.

As there are 2 parts here, the calculator form and the hikashop checkout let's start with the first part so we all are at the same point. Please enter the form(refresh your browser if needed), add some example data, and click calculate. What do you see? if the result doesn't come back as the screenshot we attached, please send:

which browser are you using
the inputs you introduce

so we can reproduce and look for errors, from here testing from different browsers is working ok at this time.

Regards

Hi,
ok, but as we mentioned above you could set that the product is only available for one purchase and/or that is out of date so it won't be shown on the catalog, this is not valid for your case?



Regards

Hi,
in fact the product is a default one, with default settings, so it's added to the cart same as it was selected from the catalog. Let's first focus on the calculation part. We've disabled the hikashop button for now, please enter the form again ,and let us know if you can see any result now with either browser.

Hi,
no, that's only for backend process, we guess your frontend problem was due to the number formatting, that's why we ask for the inputs being used, probably we were trying with numbers like $950.50 and your result was like $1,150.55 and hikashop was not accepting the comma. Next step, please calculate and try to add to cart. What do you see now?

Hi,
ok, we'll search which parameter/s can be set according to your hikashop configuration in order to remove these custom products from user view. This is done also at the code section, and would be identical for any other product, so once completed, you only need to copy all code section to your other products, and maybe change the main description title if needed. We'll let you know which is the best approach here.

Hi,
ok, we've attached these new products to a new category 'custom products' so it won't be present at your shop catalog. You could even remove these products periodically using the mass actions from hikashop configuration.

Regards

Hi,
right, but it should be visible from the orders product detail as well. Discard the previous orders because the products are not there anymore, but if you complete a new order, and you go to orders and click on the order number to access detail, the product name should link to
a 'front end' simulated view of the product with all details below.

Regards

Hi,
ok, we'll close the ticket with that solution please open a new one in case you find further issues.


Regards