Ticket Lister Widget Live orders display

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Hello,

Im still trying to find the best way to implement a drive thru customer display. I got it working through a webserver using live.js to update everytime something is added or removed from the ticket however sometimes live.js misses the update so it only works like 70-80% of the time.

Now im trying to see if I can use the ticket lister widget to accomplish my goal. Is there a way I can display the order items live as they are being entered into the ticket. Right now I got it working but it only shows up when I hit close in the ticket?

Thanks

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There is no real ticket until its closed.

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Oh okay I was affraid you would say that. So samba cannot help me with this project?

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I did not say that it wouldn’t be possible via other method however. I am sure we can figure something out.

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I got so excited to see the webserver solution work until I noticed that live.js was missing some of the updates (like 70-80%) succes rate.

Is there any possible other way that you think we could do this?

The only other thing I could think of is through building a program to show a query, but does samba store these orders in the database at all until you hit the close button?

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What your wanting is a view of the live ticket module so it shows activity as the orders are placed on the ticket. I really have not put much thought into this but I could see it being useful.

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No it does not store anything until closed. However you can trigger rules and actions on order added.

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Yeah I see.

Through a webserver would of been greate because I was planning on doing flash advertising along with it. I may contact live.js developers to see if they can help me maybe tweak something in the javascript code to make it perform better.

Only other way I can think of is to have a program that reads the data live from a text file that samba creates everytime something is added or removed in a unsent ticket.

Im not to great with scripts so I cannot think of any other use of rules or triggers besides making it print to notepad.

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You can also read order and ticket states before closed.

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Yeah but I want live order feedback. This will be used for a coney island here that is very busy and the owner wants a display out there so that they can see their order in real time.

I could get it to work through a webserver fine just by updating once (live.js is pretty good so it wont miss an update every minute or so) but thats not practical in my opinion.

BTW I developed a very cool Camera integration with samba, I think everyone here will love it. I got it working today but wont have time to create a tutorial until next week.

Its a text overlay that lets you search for video footage by keyword (ex waiter cindy) and it will show all the transaction data of that waiter. Pretty useful for loss prevention. @kendash

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I’m throwing out ideas. It may be possible to do it.

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@emre

Do you have any ideas this?