[ic] address book woes

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> 
>     Ack!  Has anyone else noticed what happens to the customer's info in the
> admin section when a user selects an address out of the address book (userdb
> get_shipping nickname=whatever) and then checks out ?  Because the address
> book info is loaded over the top of the fname lname address1 etc which
> causes the customer "record" in the admin to subsequently look like the
> customer is the person to whom the actual customer last shipped an order.
> For example, my test customer's name as shown in the admin's customer editor
> has become "John Doe", which is not my customer name but is the name
> associated with the shipping name I loaded out of the address book.
>     I can think of some ways to work around this, but they basically all
> involve eliminating calls to userdb get_shipping and instead accessing the
> address_book hash manually inside of log_transaction and log_entry .  It
> seems like a reasonably nasty proposition and I was wondering if anyone else
> had encountered this issue and how they might have dealt with it.
> 

Just remove the [userdb save] trigger on checkout.html.

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Mike Heins
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