Cart module: downlaod zip: misleading message
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firepol
Joined: 2004-05-19
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Posted: Fri, 2005-02-18 13:47
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Hi there, for some of you this may be a trivial suggestion (but I'm a specialist in these ones ;) ) anyway I saw that a few of my previous suggestions have been taken in consideration, so here I am: in the Cart, when I click "Download in Zip" and then i click "GO" I get the following message: Quote:
Your cart is empty. I'm testing g2 on my local server and i use Firefox without the download window displayed, so initially i thought about a bug. Then I realized the file was successfully downloaded... What I suggest: after clicking "GO" please display a sentence like: "Thanks for downloading our pictures." or "Your download should have begun, if you experience problems, please click here to download it again" (the underlined should be a link to the zip file, so if a user experiences a problwem can download it again before the session or temporary file is erased...) What do you think? |
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Grüezi
Actually, the current message is correct, as the cart is emptied when you choose "Download in Zip".
But should we really empty the cart if someone decides to download the files as a zip? maybe the user wants to do more than one things with the items in the cart. Maybe he wants to generate a zip of 2 files, then add a few and generate another zip. Maybe he would like to keep "shopping" and add another few items to the cart, etc.
So this is what I propose:
1. Add the suggested message of firepol if a Cart gets downloaded
2. Don't empty the cart when an action is executed on the cart.
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i don't plan to do any more work on that module, so if someone wants to step up, feel free. also, a cart api change is required if you don't want the cart to be cleared.
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Gruezi Valiant :wink:
you are right: the messaage is right, but misleading especially for people using Safari or Firefox without download bar shown when you download a file...
The feedback message given by the system should be, if you leave the original one, more precise, as follows:
But if I've well understood mindless: the Cart module has to be modified by who wants to use it (mainly people who want to do some e-commerce with pictures?).
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no, the cart has an api that allows any module to register a cart action.. just like "download zip".
however, that api always clears the cart when an action is called.. so the cart api needs a change only if you don't want to contents cleared in some cases.