[ic] Re: Basic shipping help

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 10:57:57 EST 2007


> >> >> Hello, I've been using a single line in shipping.asc for a long time.
> >> >> Now I'm trying to set up a very simple quantity-based system and I
> >> >> can't get it to work.  I have the following:
> >> >>
> >> >> shipping.asc:
> >> >>
> >> >> standard        Standard        quantity        1       2       4.99
> >> >> discounted    Discounted    quantity        3       9999    1.99
> >> >>
> >> >> country.txt:
> >> >>
> >> >> code    region  selector        shipmodes       name
> >> >> US      North America   US      standard discounted   United States
> >> >>
> >> >> catalog.cfg:
> >> >>
> >> >> ValuesDefault country US
> >> >>
> >> >> It won't switch to the discounted shipmode after three items have been
> >> >> added to the cart.  Is there anything I'm missing here?  Also
> >> >> [shipping possible=1] doesn't return anything.
> >> >
> >> > Does the above look correct to anyone?
> >>
> >> Nope, actually it looks like you've replaced some tabs with spaces in
> >> the above files.  These are *TAB DELIMITED* files.
> >
> > Thanks for your response, but I'm sure thats an artifact of the
> > copy/paste.  I've been tab delimiting in IC for 5 years.  Is a row of
> > field names perhaps required for shipping.asc?  I tried adding a
> > no_state field to the country table and set it to 1 for US with no
> > luck.
>
> I tend to prefer the multiline format anyways, easier to read and work
> with.  See
> <http://www.icdevgroup.org/interchange-doc-5.2.0/frames/icdatabase_41.html>
> and specifically
> <http://www.icdevgroup.org/interchange-doc-5.2.0/frames/icdatabase_42.html>

Thank you Peter.  Just what I needed.

- Grant


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