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Re: shipping price problem
At 05:42 PM 6/30/99 , Kyle Hayes wrote:
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>Hi folks,
>
>I am calculating my own shipping because we have some odd ways of doing it
>that do not fit into the UPS scheme at all. Formulas don't work either.
>So, I wrote my own GlobalSub that does the calculations. It works like a
>charm. However, I get a shipping note like that below whenever I have too
>much weight. DHL is the shipping method that I am calculating, and UPS is
>the default one shipped with the MV 3.12 simple demo. In this case, I
>have selected UPS as the shipping mode! What is calling dhl anyway?
>
>"Shipping Note: 168 lbs too heavy for UPSNo match found for mode 'dhl',
>quantity '120', returning 0."
>
>My shipping.asc lines for dhl look like this:
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>dhl DHL Air Freight quantity 0 0 e Nothing to ship!
>dhl DHL Air Freight quantity 0 50 s calc_dhl ;[value
>country], ;[value state]
Well, it probably gets a bit confused with have two matches for 0.
>dhl DHL Air Freight quantity 50 999999 e Please call us
>for bulk shipping information.
>
>(my mailer is breaking the lines, but hopefully you can see what is going
>on.)
>
>The error line works for the other shipping types. It is printing out the
>error line for UPS ground and then appending some sort of internal error
>that probably shouldn't be there. Of course there is no match found for
>dhl, I didn't choose that shipping type!
>
>I added a line to the top of shipping.asc:
>
>default No shipping weight 100 99999999 e Too much weight.
>Please call us for bulk shipping.
>
>When I order 150 units (at 1.5lbs each), I do not see this error.
>
>It appears that [data session ship_message] is _not_ reset after an error.
>What can I use? For instance, if I chose 51 units, it is too much for DHL
>shipping. I get the expected error message above. However, if I choose a
>different shipping method after that and hit "update", I get the same
>shipping message! The cost of shipping for that number of units/weight is
>correct, but the shipping message is not reset. Where is the current
>shipping message?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
Perhaps you have something config'ed wrong.
>
>Best,
>Kyle
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