[ic] Address book and Accounts book

Paul Jordan interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Oct 7 17:39:00 2002


OK

I have been trying to implement the Address book and Accounts book today. I
have been pretty successful in my modifications thus far. However, I am
stuck on a simple issue.

WRT a virgin Address/Accounts book in Foundation unmodified, I was under the
impression that when you created and/or recalled a new address, it was only
inserted into scratch values, for that session. It seems through
experimentation that what happens is the new address gets written into
userdb.

Is this correct? It seems to me that you will loose the default address,
forever. If I go to the demo store on devgroup, I can:

1. make new account: -> then get sent to account.html
2. fill in all info that is then saved to userdb
3. go to customerservice
4. click add new addresses -> ship_addresses
5. add an address called 'otheradd'
6. return to account.html and 'otheradd' is loaded
7. return to ship_addresses

8. Now there is NO way that I can see to retrieve my "original" customer
default information. On subsequent visits to ship_addresses, there is no
'default' in the drop down.

Is the above behavior 1-8 correctly stated, or is there something I am not
doing? When I go to userdb, my original customer info is gone. this seems
weird to me. If I have all entries made in ship_addresses, it works fine,
but the fact that account.html asks me for my information first, creates an
issue, you know what I mean?

I am not complaining, and I don't mind making my own storage and functions
in mysql, but since these functions existed I thought I would look there
first.

TIA

Paul