RE: [mv] Forcing new shipping selection

[Michael James <mwjames@ak.planet.gen.nz>]

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Hi,

Is the standard checkout page method not sufficient.
Being in NZ instead of the US I added a some countries called NZAK, NZNI 
and NZSI to the country.asc file plus shipping costs to shipping.asc
Carefully replaced US with NZAK and the appropriate ship mode in the 
beginning of checkout.html
Down at the select section of the page I played around with the if 
statement for the select list without any luck. I could not successfully 
change the short list which had US and CA to NZAK, NZNI and NZSI. So have 
just got the full country list with NZAK as default.

[if !value country]
	Set country to: [value name=country set="NZAK"]
	Set save_country to: [value name=save_country set="NZAK"]
	Set mv_shipmode to: [value name=mv_shipmode set="surf_NZAK"]
[elsif type=explicit
		compare="[calc]
					q{[value country]} ne q{[value save_country]}
				[/calc]"]
	Set saved country to: [value name=save_country set="[value country]"]
	Set shipmode to:
		[value name=mv_shipmode
				set="[calc]
						$mode = q{[data
										table=country
										col=shipmodes
										key='[value country]'
										]};
						$mode =~ s/\s.*//;
						return $mode;
					[/calc]"
				]
[/elsif]
[/if]

<snip>
Deleted the IF statement and left this.

		<SELECT MV="loop"
			MV.PREPEND="[sort country:name]"
			MV.SEARCH="ra=yes/fi=country.asc/ml=1000"
			onChange="this.form.submit()"
			MV.OPTION="country"
			NAME="country">
			<OPTION VALUE="[loop-code]"> [loop-data country name]
		</SELECT>

Michael

Planet Communications,  mwjames Consulting,  Pacific Consultants,
mwjames@pl.net , mike@pacificconsult.co.nz
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The construction of the select list was solved by the usertag as now
only valid shipping codes are presented.  But as the customer hasn't
actually selected the code yet, the value of Shipping displayed the
first time the checkout page is displayed is wrong.

I have a bit of Perl to calculate the correct value for mv_shipmode, but
how do I assign it.  I tried [value name=mv_shipmode
set="[calc]...[/calc]"] but that didn't seem to work. It just displayed
the correct code on the page.

To make the assignment directly from perl i.e. in the calc what do I do.
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