[ic] Persistence of item-modifier

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Kyle Cook)]

At 12:02 PM 6/18/02, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>It appears that item-modifier does not persist as an attribute of an
>order once it is placed.  I'm using the catalog.cfg directives to add a
>few modifiers to items during checkout, but I was surprised when these
>didn't show up in the orderline table.
>
>I wanted to see if either:
>
>A. I did something incorrectly that caused the system not to include my
>modifiers in the updates the orderline table; or
>
>B. Item-modifier was never intended to be used for data that needs to be
>tracked in any of the orders tables.
>
>I would appreciate any guidance you can give me in either finding the
>cause of my problem or directing me in modification more appropriate to
>my purposes.  The two item modifiers I am currently using will be an
>important part of the order status and tracking system I am building for
>my client.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jerry Brady
>Blue Circle Technologies

Jerry,

Are you passing the modifier in your checkout pages?
example:

<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="[modifier-name ccid]" VALUE="[item-modifier ccid]">

Also did you specify the modifiers in catalog.cfg?


Good luck,

Kyle