[ic] newbie checkout question: mandatory shipping address

Paul Jordan interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Nov 27 16:23:01 2002


> >    Yes, set a mv_form_profile on the accounts page to
> validate the data
> >there.  See that message I posted a few messages back
> referring to the new
> >Form Validation Primer that DB created.
> >
> >
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> did you note that in our case, we had clients visit the site, not
> complete the ship-to fields, attempt a save, receive the
> warnings, and
> then return to the main page only to select an item and buy it?  That
> process never returned to the accounts page...
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> barry


I am in the same bucket Barry. I am doing the exact same thing as you...
I think it is prety much a fact that users who would do that, can only
be controlled with final checkout form validation, and as I have the
only editing in account.html also, the transition is *not so smooth* to
get back... but that is the price we pay for implementing it this way :)

One thing that I did, got rid of, and may do again is on final checkout
(hidden) validation... where I resubmit now hidden inputs, have
secondary edit page that is inline with the checkout process, bounce
them there instead of account.html... maybe get as fancy as only
displaying an input for the error'ed field and then a big CONTINUE
button that will send them right where they left off.

Paul