[ic] One more time: Promotions inconsistent behavior

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 01:48 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Thought I'd try this again, didn't get a response the
>first time.  Someone must know about this.
>
>Hi gang-
>
>Busily writing the merch HOWTO and I've come across
>a snag.
>
>Using the Foundation demo admin UI, I modified
>gift_cert's promotion, adding a new type called
>"Demo"
>
>However, this new promotion type does not show up in
>the drop box under the promotion component, only
>"Specials" and "New Items" appear.
>
>Restarted Interchange, applied changes, nothing
>seems to take.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>
>-B

I didn't read your first post because I couldn't particularly understand 
what you were saying.  Sorry.  :-)  However, you are correct, and it just 
doesn't seem right, does it?

The top of the templates/components/promo file currently has this:

promo_type:
         label: Promotion type
         options: specials=Specials, new=New items
         widget: select

Which is what builds the option list in page_edit right now.  But to get it 
to automatically grab the promotion type option list from the metadata in 
the admin, you have to pass the page_edit module some special parameters 
that it (in turn) passes to the [display] tag:

promo_type:
         label: Promotion type
         widget: select
         lookup: featured
         db: merchandising

That will give you a list like:

         expired
         new
         specials
         demo

However, I don't know why it isn't using the "Aesthetic" part to do this 
instead:

         Expired
         New Items
         Specials
         Demo

But that's a small matter IMHO.  I'll probably commit something to this 
effect to CVS later on.

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@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@

  promo_type:
         label: Promotion type
-       options: specials=Specials, new=New items
         widget: select
+       lookup: featured
+       db: merchandising

  matches:
         label: Number to show