[ic] Shipping Costs Not Showing Up

[Ed LaFrance]

At 09:38 AM 7/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
><<< I got a quick fix. I created a hidden variable in the cart component
>that says:
>
><input type=hidden name=country value=US>
>
>Now I get shipping by weight calculations when I'm not logged in and without
>having to press recalculate and without the user having to enter the zip
>code first.
>Unfortunately, if an account is created with a Canada country value, this
>little quick fix will overwrite that value in checkout and defaults back to
>US, because that's the variable I'm passing.  In my varible.txt file, I
>have:
>
>SHIP_DEFAULT_COUNTRY    US      Shipping
>
>That doesn't seem to get me anywhere though.  Because I still need to create
>this hidden variable.  Does anyone have a better solution for our beloved
>Canadian neighbors?  This has got to be a known bug, but I have yet to see a
>good fix, hopefully it will be covered within the next release.  I'm
>currently running RedHat7.3 Interchange 4.8.3 >>>

For setting checkout default values, I've always favored this approach:

[if !value country][value name=country set=US hide=1][/if]

...and this, though different, should have the equivalent effect:

[value name=country set="[default country US]" hide=1]

- Ed L.


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