[ic] Order Status Getting Wiped

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jonathan Clark)]

> > >     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 ?

Another great feature of Interchange is the ability to override UI admin
pages on a per-catalog basis.

Simply put your page in <catroot>/pages/admin and it will override the
default one for your catalog.

Jonathan
Webmaint.