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Is it possible to turn on product reviews on a per product basis?

Edited by Dayv3 - 02-January-2013 at 9:37am

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Dayv3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-June-2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dayv3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: product reviews question Posted: 02-January-2013 at 9:35am
	Is it possible to turn on product reviews on a per product basis? Edited by Dayv3 - 02-January-2013 at 9:37am

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02-January-2013 at 10:07am
	Not without customization, which I've not done that specific mod before, but I don't think this would be all that difficult. My tabbed product page module features extra input fields and checkboxes which are introduced to the admin - you just have to use them wherever you need to do so. I'd start by installing that module, thus saving the effort to update all the admin tools. Then label one of the checkboxes to support turning reviews on/off. Then go into the product detail page and implement the necessary code - using this switch to override the general reviews on/off switch.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04-January-2013 at 11:18pm
	Seems to me that this would be a nice and easy feature for EI to add. I can definitely see where there would be situations where one might not want reviews for certain products though they use the feature in general. Just curious, but are there any common parameters that define which products you'd prefer not to have review enabled on -- for example: certain brands, categories, etc. ... something already in the db that these products could be detected by? If so, then this would be very simple to do. Short of that, it would definitely require some custom engineering. For example, the keyword "NOREVIEW" could be stored in the product notes field and then sniffed out before the call to the subroutine that invokes the reviews region on product pages. Very simple stuff to do either way.

Dayv3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-June-2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dayv3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05-January-2013 at 2:06am
	Actually I would like to enable product reviews more of an exception then the rule. I design electronic effect kits, for musicians, and want customers to be able to review the kits. At the same time, I sell discrete parts separate from the kits. I do not need people to give a review of a resistor or a capacitor but, a review of the completed kit would be help to me and my prospective customers. It would be nice if EI could add a check box for “Enable Reviews” in the Other Settings section in addition to the global setting in their next update.