[ic] Profiles for checking without ordering

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (John Allman)]

paul jordan wrote:

>>paul jordan wrote:
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>>>>Hi - i realise this is a bit of a stupid question but i'm having real
>>>>hassle. can somebody post a simple example of using mv_order_profile to
>>>>ensure that fields are filled out correctly in a page when that page has
>>>>nothing to do with the order process?
>>>>
>>>>I've been playing about but haven't had any success and the error logs
>>>>are showing nothing. i have a profile created properly, i have mv_todo
>>>>set to return and have mv_order_profile set to the name of the profile.
>>>>i have restarted interchange. what else do i need to do?
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>>>John
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>>>Look in etc/profiles.order  under ->   account_change
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>>>"profiles.order" is just a name of the files, they don't have to
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>>be involved
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>>>with orders.
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>>>Paul
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>>Yeah i found that and used it as my template. Actually, come to think of
>>it the only change i made was the name. I think it must be an error with
>>my form?
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>>thanks
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>>John
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>John, the page that handles the above profile is account.txt, look at its
>form.
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>AS for your latest email. I have never seen what you are doing the way you
>are doing... that doesn't mean it can't be done. I don't believe you can
>write to userdb like that.
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>Are you trying to write this to userdb??  You may need to use it in
>conjunction with a [tag flag write] but I don't know is that is safe... I
>recommend looking into [userdb] tag if that is what you are dealing with.
>
>Paul
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You know i take it back. The "construct something" demo does not work 
fine. i just generated a shiny new demo store with makecat and restarted 
interchange. i went to the account page and left out bits of information 
that are required fields but it doesn't complain. Now i'm thinking i've 
borked something . i'm using interchange 4.6.5.

this is exceedingly frustrating. the examples of verifiying form data 
that work are in the order process. I'll try hacking one of them but i 
know there was some reason i didn't want to do that...

one last cry for a simple functional example for me to hack?

going slightly mad here:(

John