[ic] Shipping tag with cascading methods in shipping.asc (corrections)

[Rick Bragg]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 19:01 -0400, Rick Bragg wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> My overall objective is to offer Ground, 3 Day service, and free
> shipping on carts that total $200.  But also, since some items are very
> large, I wrote a tag that looks at each item in the cart and applies an
> additional cost for some items...  Also, I wrote another tag that tests
> to see if there is an item in the cart that is "not allowed" to be
> shipped by a particular method.  This tag returns 0 if an items is not
> allowed, and 1 if there are no problems with the cart, then forwards to
> a weight based system.  This works no problems, however, if I forward to
> a price based system first to see if the cart is over 200, then forward
> again to the final weight based system there are problems.
> 
> 
> In country.txt for US, I have the following:
>  free_z1 ups_ground_res_z1 ups_3day_z1
> 
> 
> Here is my shipping.asc:
> 
> ups_3day_z1:   UPS 3 Day Select test - Zone 1
>         criteria        [noship_item method=ups_3day_z1]
>         min             0
>         max             0
>         cost            e Can not ship item by UPS 3 Day Select - Zone 1.
>         min             1
>         max             1
>         cost    >>ups_3day_z1_weight
> 
> ups_3day_z1_weight: UPS 3 Day Select test2 - Zone 1
> 	criteria	weight
> 	min		0
> 	max		4
> 	cost 		f 19 + [shipping_cost method='ups_3day_z1' mode='none']
> 	min		4
> 	max		15
> 	cost 		f 25 + [shipping_cost method='ups_3day_z1' mode='none']
> 	min		15
> 	max		25
> 	cost 		f 45 + [shipping_cost method='ups_3day_z1' mode='none']
> 	min		25
> 	max		9999999
> 	cost		e Will quote shipping cost.
> 
> 
> 
> ups_ground_res_z1:   UPS Ground - Zone 1
>         criteria        [noship_item method=ups_ground_res_z1]
>         min             1
>         max             1
>         cost            e Can not ship item by UPS Ground - Zone 1.
>         min             2
>         max             2
>         cost    >>ups_ground_res_z1_price
>         
> ups_ground_res_z1_price:	UPS Ground P - Zone 1
> 	criteria	price
> 	min		0
> 	max		200
> 	cost		>>ups_ground_res_z1_weight
> 	min		200
> 	max		9999999
> 	cost		>>free_z1_price
> 	
> ups_ground_res_z1_weight: UPS Ground - Zone 1
> 	criteria	weight
> 	min		0
> 	max		70
> 	cost 		f 8.50 + [shipping_cost method='ups_ground_res_z1' mode='none']
> 	min		70
> 	max		9999999
> 	cost		e Will quote shipping cost.
> 
> 
> 
> free_z1:   Free Shipping!
>         criteria        [noship_item method=free_z1]
>         min             1
>         max             1
>         cost            e Can not ship item by Free Shipping.
>         min             2
>         max             2
>         cost    >>free_z1_price
> 
> free_z1_price:	Free Shipping!
> 	criteria	price
> 	min		0
> 	max		200
> 	cost		e Spend $200 or more and get Free Shipping (on most items.)
> 	min		200
> 	max		9999999
> 	cost	f 0 + [shipping_cost method='ups_ground_res_z1' mode='none']
> 	free	on most items.
> 
> 
> The shipping tag used in Vermont US now generates the following:
> 
> shipping = 
> <select name="mv_shipmode">
>     <option value="ups_ground_res_z1_price">UPS Ground - Zone 1 (&#36;8.50) <<<<<------- the problem... Value should be "ups_ground_res_z1"
>     <option value="ups_3day_z1">UPS 3 Day Select - Zone 1 (&#36;19.00)
> </select>
> 
> 
> Aha, Notice the value = "ups_ground_res_z1_price"
> 
> This breaks the form and causes $0 shipping charge!
> 
> It seems as if you can only "forward" once.  If I forward the cost again
> to another method, it sets the form value to the prior method, (which is
> not in the country.txt file) when it should set the value to the overall
> parent method.  
> 
> Also, if there are any errors, I would rather it didn't allow for a
> checkout at all and instead returned an error notice/page...
> 
> Has anyone come across this before? and/or fixed it? Or maybe there is a
> totally new way to do shipping on the way?
> 
> Thanks!
> Rick
> 
> 


I made some mistakes in the above example when trying to simplify...

Anyway, All the 1's and 2's I have for min-max on the main methods using
my [noship] tag should be all 0 and 1...  Does this make sense?  I think
I am going mad ;)  Basically if I forward the "cost" more than once, it
picks up the prior method label as the value in the <select> <option>
when it should always be the top parent...

I hate to start digging into the shipping tag, has anyone else run into
this?

Thanks!
Rick