Order Download Field Map Problem.

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Order Download Field Map Problem.

Postby artattack » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:59 am

Hi.

I am trying to download order information so I can us it in a spreadsheet.

I have a problem with Field Map

According to the help, you can set the order of the field map by selecting each field in the order you would like it to appear.

So I would like for example in this order.

Product type
product name
order total

If I select them in that order this is what I get, for some reason the right column sorts itself to look like this.

Order Total.
Product Type
Product Name.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Arthur.
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Postby Jim » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:59 am

I have verified that this action occurs. This may be the result of the way that data is formatted in the download file which precludes the capability of doing the fields in that order.

In an order there is some information that only occurs one time such as shopper name, shipping address, payment information etc. An order can have multiple products so each product does not have an order total associated with it. It wouldn't make sense to have the order total repeated for every product in the order so rather than doing that the order total will be placed at the front of all the products and then each product will have its information displayed in succeeding columns of the table. Here is a general layout.
Shopper information, combined order information, Product 1 info, Product 2 info, Product 3 info.

All of the shopper information will be together(name, address,etc), all payment information will be together (card type, cc #, expiration date etc), all of the combined order information (total price, tax, shipping charge etc) will be together, and each line item will have all of its information together. You can arrange the information in each individual section but you can't move it outside of that section.
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Postby artattack » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:59 am

Thank you Jim.

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