Re: Update on weird shipping bug

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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At 12:51 AM 4/23/99 , Kris Kelley wrote:
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>The mystery of my catalog apparently getting shipping and UPS zone 
>information from somewhere other than the proper "shipping.asc" and 
>"ups_zone.asc" files has been solved by completely stopping MiniVend 
>and then restarting it again.  However, I'm still having the problem 

	Minivend loads the .asc databases into memory on reconfigure or restart
unless you have it configured differently.  Changing the file would, in
that case, not appear to do anything.

>of shipping rates not being calculated properly for a site that uses 
>several different product databases.  The weights are always set to 
>zero, no matter what they actually are in the database files.  
>However, when I copy any particular database file to "products.asc", 
>the weights for those products are read fine and the shipping rates 
>calculated properly.  I can't, however, move all my products to one 
>file, because each database has a unique set of columns (aside from 
>the "description", "weight", and other such columns that are common to 
>all of them).

	I would recommend combining the databases - if a certain product does not
have a need for a certain column, leave it blank.  :-)  Personally, I've
never used multiple databases for products, only for color information -
and my shipping is based on price.  >shrug<

>
>I REALLY need help on this, and would appreciate commentary, even if 
>it's just a suggestion to try some alternative.  All of my past 
>requests together have garnered exactly one reply, and I'm getting 
>very frustrated over this.  Thank you.

	I know how it can be Kris, usually when I don't receive a response to a
post it is because nobody knows the answer - or there is more than one way
to do it, and my attempts may be different than anyone else's.

>
>---Kris Kelley


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