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Because of the way my store is set up, it's unnecessary for me to have the
line in the shopping cart that says, "Show me my shopping cart every time I
order something." What is the easiest way to remove it?

Thanks!
Mark

Hi,

I am testing an order importer written to download orders from 6.2 into our
order entry and accounting system.

1) Once I download a batch of orders and then I download lets say the next
days batch, the old orders still are included. Is there a way to download
only new orders as a batch, yet still keep all the previous orders (already
downloaded) in the shopsite database?

2) With the newest upgrade using the xml.
(Version 6.3 includes new Quantity Discounts and XML Order Download)

Does that mean if I upgrade to 6.3 that the orderapi 6.2 field variables may
have been changed/added or some deleted? If yes, is there a way to know
which ones were changed/added or deleted?

In other words, the custom script we have written for 6.2 would not work
using 6.3 potentially because of any new changes.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks, Kevin Sullivan

Www.vantelweb.com

**** Comments below.

-Loren



Kevin Sullivan wrote:

Hi,

I am testing an order importer written to download orders from 6.2 into
our
order entry and accounting system.

1) Once I download a batch of orders and then I download lets say the
next
days batch, the old orders still are included. Is there a way to
download
only new orders as a batch, yet still keep all the previous orders
(already
downloaded) in the shopsite database?

**** Using the tab-delimited or QuickBooks download you cannot specify an
order
range to be downloaded, you will get every order still stored in the
orders
databases. If you want to not get those orders next time, then you would
need to
delete those orders that you have already downloaded prior to downloading
again.





2) With the newest upgrade using the xml.
(Version 6.3 includes new Quantity Discounts and XML Order Download)

Does that mean if I upgrade to 6.3 that the orderapi 6.2 field variables
may
have been changed/added or some deleted? If yes, is there a way to
know
which ones were changed/added or deleted?

In other words, the custom script we have written for 6.2 would not work
using 6.3 potentially because of any new changes.

**** Are you talking about Order API or are you talking about Order
Download?
Either way, nothing should have been deleted, I do not believe anything
has been
changed, and to see what has been added, try it out (you can try a
download from
one of the 6.3 demo's on shopsite.com, you can see the output of all
variables
passed to the Order API by using the sample program custom-dump.pl or
customdump.cgi). Note that in v6.2 and newer you can select the version
format
of the tab-delimited order download file prior to downloading it, so even
if you
custom program couldn't handle new 6.3 fields in this file, you can get
the file
in the same format as v6.2 if you want (you just won't get the new fields
that
come along with new features).


**** Also note that in the new XML Download in ShopSite Pro v6.3 you can
1)
trigger the download without having to go through the backoffice interface
and
2) specify ranges of order numbers to download. See the DTD for the xml
file at:


http://www.shopsite.com/help/6.3/en-US/ ... at.xml.htm

The spec on parameters to trigger the download etc should be up in the
online
docs soon.





Keep up the good work.

Thanks, Kevin Sullivan

Www.vantelweb.com

Mark Raymond wrote:

Because of the way my store is set up, it's unnecessary for me to have
the
line in the shopping cart that says, "Show me my shopping cart every
time I
order something." What is the easiest way to remove it?

Thanks!
Mark



Mark,

There is no way to totally remove it. You can go to Preferences > Store
Text > Shopping cart and replace the text with a couple of space
characters so the text won't display but you can't get rid of the check
box.

If you have your own cgi directory (not sharing it with other the
stores) you can edit the file basket basket_info.new in the shopping
cart directory and change the token "smb: checked" to "smb: " and that
will leave the box unchecked so each add-to-cart doesn't display the
shopping cart but the box will still be on the shopping cart screen.
However if you are sharing cgis with other stores this would affect them
as well.

Jim

Loren or Jim,

Couldn't Raymond use comment tags in the header text and the "Show me my
shopping basket..." text to comment out the checkbox? Naturally he
would have to replicate the <form> and <input> tags in the header text
to maintain functionality.

The only thing I see that would keep it from working is if the "sbid"
parameter is unique to each session. Is it?

Jim Hastey - Webmaster
http://www.dadscookies.com


jstavast@xmission.com wrote:

Mark Raymond wrote:

Because of the way my store is set up, it's unnecessary for me to
have the
line in the shopping cart that says, "Show me my shopping cart every
time I
order something." What is the easiest way to remove it?

Thanks!
Mark



Mark,

There is no way to totally remove it. You can go to Preferences
Store Text > Shopping cart and replace the text with a couple of
space characters so the text won't display but you can't get rid of
the check box.

If you have your own cgi directory (not sharing it with other the
stores) you can edit the file basket basket_info.new in the shopping
cart directory and change the token "smb: checked" to "smb: " and that
will leave the box unchecked so each add-to-cart doesn't display the
shopping cart but the box will still be on the shopping cart screen.
However if you are sharing cgis with other stores this would affect
them as well.

Jim

Yes, the sbid value is very important, it is unique to each shopper, and
is what identifies the shopper with their shopping cart.

Since starting a comment in the text field at the top of the cart would
cause the sbid to be commented out as well as the smb checkbox, and you
can't recreate the sbid value later in some other text field because it
is dynamic and unique, then this method will not work. There is not any
workaround that I know of to remove the checkbox at this time.

-Loren



James P. Hastey, Jr. wrote:
Loren or Jim,

Couldn't Raymond use comment tags in the header text and the "Show me my
shopping basket..." text to comment out the checkbox? Naturally he
would have to replicate the <form> and <input> tags in the header text
to maintain functionality.

The only thing I see that would keep it from working is if the "sbid"
parameter is unique to each session. Is it?

Jim Hastey - Webmaster
http://www.dadscookies.com


jstavast@xmission.com wrote:

Mark Raymond wrote:

Because of the way my store is set up, it's unnecessary for me to
have the
line in the shopping cart that says, "Show me my shopping cart every
time I
order something." What is the easiest way to remove it?

Thanks!
Mark



Mark,

There is no way to totally remove it. You can go to Preferences
Store Text > Shopping cart and replace the text with a couple of
space characters so the text won't display but you can't get rid of
the check box.

If you have your own cgi directory (not sharing it with other the
stores) you can edit the file basket basket_info.new in the shopping
cart directory and change the token "smb: checked" to "smb: " and that
will leave the box unchecked so each add-to-cart doesn't display the
shopping cart but the box will still be on the shopping cart screen.
However if you are sharing cgis with other stores this would affect
them as well.

Jim