@stephanhenning Thanks for that link. I looked through it and tested. It works great! I have been getting an idea on which could possibly work for me. Though I could use some input whether its possible.
Normally there has to be a category made before it shows up in the POS screen, and any item found within the category normally shows up there. If you delete the category, and start a new work period, the category is no longer shown in the POS screen. Now I’m thinking whether it would be possible to control that. Manually this is possible, and it’s easy to remove and create categories with linked items, so I could easily just remove the category, start a new work period and the category is no longer listed, then when the day I want the category to appear, I could just make a new category and link its items to it , start a new work period and it’s there again.
I’m not so sure how possible this would be within v4 using rules, actions and triggers, however what if we could create a script which does that for us. This is an idea I haven’t quite tested yet as I’m not quite familiar with scripting, but I don’t see how it could not be possible for this type of scenario.
Have a script which is triggered on any day, or time of choice to create a category, link specific items to that category, create a new work period, and have it show, then right before the happy hour is complete, the script triggers a popup advising the employee/manager or whoever is at the till, that happy hour will end in 10minutes, and that they should take and finalize any orders taken within that time, then have the script remove the category the minute it goes over the specific time period and then its back to normal.
Could we incorporate this with a trigger which changes menu item cost to say “HH” columns and then once Happy hour is finished, it brings it back to normal prices. Or even have it add and remove the column for prices as well as category before and after the period of time?
Just a thought as there is scripts integrated into samba, so I thought maybe it’s possible?