Re: [mv] Refresh of cart re-orders item

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Warren Odom (warren-odom@stenocall.com):
> 
> Yes, I saw the "&mv_order_item=<sku>" in the URL, and figured that's where
> the extra item was coming from on a refresh.  It seems like enough of a
> problem to me that it should be fixed.  I can just hear the customer
> complaint now.  (Or, perhaps more likely, I hear nothing, as he decides the
> system is too flaky to risk ordering at all!)
> 
> I also figured that an intermediate page, such as you describe, might fix
> it.  But I also thought the nice Akopia people should be informed about
> this-and might even come up with a better and/or easier fix.  After all,
> having a glitch like this in their "showcase" demo is clearly suboptimal for
> them.  It didn't take me too long to stumble on to it, either.  (And, since
> then, I've tried the same thing with other shopping carts, and never had
> this problem with any others.)
> 
> I just have this feeling that there ought to be a quick, easy, fix-but I'm
> not intimate enough with MV/Interchange to know what it is.
> 

The problem is I don't agree it is a glitch. How many people really do it?
Why would they? Why wouldn't they figure out that they ordered twice?

If you really want to avoid this, you can set your order links to:

	[page href=order
		form="
			mv_order_item=00-0011
			mv_order_quantity==1
			mv_separate_items=0
		"]Order it</A>

Note the two = signs in the quantity....

Personally, I think this is much ado about nothing.

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