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Is this a bug? writing price of product to custom entity

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Posted on by Nettsales 20

I have a need to do something very simple:  use a calculated field to read the retail price ("price") of a product and multiply is by a percentage.

So I've set up the N:1 relationship between my custom entity and the product entity, selected the required product and now I'm working on a calculated field to take the product price from the list price of the product, multiply it by 0.9 and display it in a field.

Everything I have read says that if I use this "new_membershiplevel.price * 0.5" in the calculated field then the list price of the product will be multiplied by 50% and the value placed in this currency field.

I can't see any errors anywhere and this is something I have done successfully before, so is this a bug, or have I made a mistake?

Thanks,

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  • Martin Donnelly Profile Picture
    Martin Donnelly 1,030 on at

    I think it's more conventional to use a price list to execute this strategy but, what is the problem?  You've shown the configuration but not mentioned what's wrong.

    ps- on the SDK side, such an operation would require one to execute currency.Value (money to decimal) before doing any math and then converting it back: new Money(price.Value*0.5)

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    Nettsales 20 on at

    Ahhh sorry - probably a good idea!  

    Problem is that there is nothing coming through into the calculated field in the custom entity.  This is regardless of whether I just push the contents of the "list price" field or put a calculation on it.

    I need to use the list price as this is being updated from the Sage accounts system, so price lists are not really an option.

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    Nettsales 20 on at

    I'm ebarassed to say I've found the answer to this issue!  In case anyone else hits the same issue, the problem was that I didn't have the currency field on the form.  As it is a custom entity, the currency field is not added by default and it appears that for any calcuation to work on a currency type field, the currency needs to be set.  Which makes sense, I guess.

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