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Cart Entity

The Cart entity describes a mechanism to collect items in a virtual cart during a user session.

Refer to the introduction to the Cart Entity for further details.

Cart Fields

The Cart entity is created the first time an item is selected and an ItemLineInCart record is created. 

The Cart entity defines the following fields: 

CartSequence Unique surrogate key of Cart entity.
CartAmount Derived field displaying the total amount of the Item Lines in the Cart. It is a part of the implementation of the WebShop pattern to modify the scoped derivation function to calculate the value of the CartAmount field.
refers to GenericUser Optional relation to the GenericUser instance that owns the Cart. The reference is specified a GenericUser instance exists for the web user (which is not the case if the user is a Visitor that has not yet submitted an order).
CartStatus Set from status Non-Order to Order when the order has been processed.
CartCreateDate Initialised to current date when the Cart is created. 
CartCreateTime Initialised to current time when the Cart is created. 
CartOrderDate Set to current date when the order has been processed. 
CartOrderTime Set to current time when the order has been processed. 

Cart Inheritance

The Cart entity inherits from Abstract.DataAccess, FOUNDATION/EditDetail, and Abstract.Surrogate..