[ic] Order Status Getting Wiped

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jon)]

Ed LaFrance wrote:

> At 11:49 PM 10/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >     Running IC 4.8.5
> >
> >     From the Order Status page if you click the button to email the
> >person with
> >the order information it will overwrite anything that was previously in
> >the status field
> >such as a shipping tracking number.  Is there some configuration work
> >around for this ?
> >
> >Scenario:  Set a tracking number in the status field so it shows up as a
> >UPS tracking
> >URL link which works great.  If you follow that setting with a click to
> >email the consumer
> >then that status field is automatically set to Shipped and the tracking
> >number is wiped out.
> >
> >Jon
>
> Sounds like you'll need to override __UI_BASE__/order_status.html and do a
> little work on the relevant Perl code to prevent an existing tracking
> number from being overwritten.
>

    I was afraid of that.  I can figure out the Perl, but what are the chances
a
hosting site would allow my changes applied to their server ?  I'm assuming
here
the admin UI portion of  IC isn't part of the individual catalog and would be
considered
common code ?

Jon