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Parts of the Cart

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The shopping cart can be thought of as having three distinct sections:

Header

This section displays general information pertaining to the entire quote. The header may contain address information, account information, or other fields created for use by the customer.

Quote line items

This section contains information about the products in the cart. The shopping cart template defines the display format for a single line item. A while loop is used to interpret this display format for each line item. A line item has a pageset name and description associated with it, and has the ability to linkback to its pageset, restoring the state of the configuration to what it was when the user clicked Add To Cart. Each line item may contain multiple parts. A part generally has a part number, description, price, and various feature table data associated with it. Parts can have parent-child relationships, which in previous versions of browser-based applications were described as item-subitem relationships. In the 4.0 version of browser-based applications, unlimited nesting of parts is supported.

Footer

This section displays subtotal and total information, and contains buttons that operate on the cart. These actions are available:

Clear Cart starts a new cart
Submit Cart submits the cart to the specified order management system
Save Cart assigns a name so that the cart can be accessed from the quote list
Print Cart displays a formatted, view-only cart page
Update Cart applies user changes

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