Re: Forms 4.5 - implementing the "shopping cart" model

Chris,

You could use a pick list, but instead of having your chosen values appear in a box on the right, you can just commit them to a table called "SHOPPING_CART" or something like that. In that table you could have item_id and quantity. Have a menu item or a button to pop up a "View Cart Contents" screen. Hope this helps.

Adrian Klingel
developer

Chris Hughes wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I would like to build an application that is very similar to the "shopping
> cart" model that you see so often on the internet, but with Oracle Forms 4.5
> as the development tool.
>
> If you are not familiar with this model it essentially works like this: users
> are allowed to select items from a list of available items and put thier
> selections into a "shopping cart." They can add or remove items at will from
> the cart. When the user is done with selection, the shopping cart will be
> processed - im my specific case, just posted to a database.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had implemented this model, or something similar to
> it. I am curious as to how I could attack the problem. I am planning on
> putting the selections from the list into a record group and then displaying
> the contents of the record group in a multi-record block, but this is just an
> idea at this point.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Chris
>
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Received on Wed Jul 08 1998 - 20:05:22 CEST