Re: [mv] Change total weight on checkout page

[Ed LaFrance <edl@newmediaems.com>]

At 06:09 PM 07/06/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi, I am wanting to reduce the total shipping weight
>on the checkout page if two certain part numbers are
>in the cart at one time, anyone know of an easy way
>to do this? I want to give a discounted shipping rate
>if two items are bundled together.
>
>thanks!
>Shawn

Rather than reducing the weight, there are a couple of ways you can reduce 
the total shipping charge, if that will accomplish your goal.  Recent 
flavors of the 4.7.x branch have the [assign] tag for this purpose.  You 
can also use the adder in the shipmode attribs hash in IC 4.6 and 4.7 
(snippet of list thread follows):

>You can set the adder. The eighth field in a tab-separated line is the options
>field, and it can be a hash reference. (The sixth field is the cost field,
>so there needs to be a tab between that and the options field.) It can contain
>something like:
>
>         {  adder => '@@TOTAL@@ * .05' }
>
>That will add 5% to the calculated cost.

Thanks, Mike. FWIW to whomever might be listening, you can reference the 
scratch variable hash (and no doubt other data structures as well) in the 
adder, allowing dynamic control over the adjustment, which is where I was 
ultimately headed with this (here's a contrived example):

On some catalog page:
         [if something_is_true]
                 [set shipping_adder]-2[/set]
         [else]
                 [set shipping_adder][/set]
         [/else]
         [/if]

In shipping.asc:
         {  adder => '$Scratch->{shipping_adder}' }

...allows you to conditionally take $2 off of the shipping charges.

- Ed L.



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