Order Delivery Date Support Thread

[mrmeech]

I removed the PO module completely and installed the order delivery date contribution EXACTLY as written.

Still no dice. The date is just not coming over. I am receiving no errors.

Do you get a blank screen? Or is it literally just the date not working?

Also, for what it's worth, the calendar also does not work in Firefox for me (Firefox 2.0.0.15 on a Windows box). It works fine in IE.

That's a bummer and i will look into it within the next day or so.. It's most likely just an incompatible or bad tag somewhere.

[duffy]

Good day mrmeech. This is a great mod! I just updated to version 2 with the javascript calendar and noticed some strange behavior--from my customers, not the mod. They don't always enter a date. Consequently I get a date of Tuesday, November 30, 1999 by default.

I was wondering if there was a way to make the date selection required?

[jbpounders]

Is it possible to feed the date to Interapptive Shipworks? I need to print the ship date on my invoices. This module is amazing! I appreciate the help.

[mrmeech]

Is it possible to feed the date to Interapptive Shipworks? I need to print the ship date on my invoices. This module is amazing! I appreciate the help.

Hey there - Unfortunately i am not familiar with Shipworks. Additionally, this module is configured to allow a person to request the DELIVERY date, not the SHIP date.

As for having the imputed delivery date on the invoices - that's already in the contribution's code.

[jbpounders]

Right, I understand...what's the difference between having it be a ship date and a delivery date? We only ship on mondays so I set up the javascript to eliminate all the days except monday. Well if we could figure out how to insert the date into the notes section it should make it into shipworks fine..just need to know how to do that :)
Thanks,
JBP

[mrmeech]

... if we could figure out how to insert the date into the notes section it should make it into shipworks fine..just need to know how to do that :)
Thanks,
JBP

That would take me a while to figure out how to do and i'm ridiculously busy right now, but i can point you in the direction that might lead you to an answer... which is to look over the CREATE function in includes/classes/functions/order.php. Or maybe it would be in the order.php file in the admin side?

Basically, i think you need to find the code that generates the comments when an order is submitted and put a line in there to suck the date from the order session and input it into the comments. Once you get that figured out, you will need to know exactly where and how shipworks is obtaining the comments information.

If you have a low enough order volume you can always open up each order and copy and paste the date into the comments field and make a new comment. But, that is clearly the ghetto and time consuming solution.

Honestly, it's slightly above my knowledge of the code that executes the order submission... maybe DrByte or Ajeh or one of the developers can guide you in a more refined direction?

Please let us know how you do with this and kindly post your solution on here for anyone else wishing to do the same thing down the line.

[cjsmiff]

Hi,

I'm having problems unzipping the download - it gives me 2 blank files when it's unzipped. Could someone send me a copy please?

Would be eternally grateful.

Cheers
Claire

[jkenwell]

Does anyone here know if a module is available that uses (adjustable) time slots instead of calendar days? (It doesn't have to be free, and it would sure remove a lot of headaches I currently have trying to cobble something together through the checkout).

What I need is a module that lets me assign "so many orders for this slot" (or "so many order-$$$ for this slot" or a combination of both), and that lets me variate the size of the slot (e.g. from 2 hours to 3 or 4 hours), and delivery slots auto-closing after a pre-determined cut-off (e.g. at 10 am the delivery slot for 2pm-4pm disappears or is disabled). Ideally there would be a selectable date, with the available slots appearing after the delivery date has been chosen.

Thanks in advance.

[prosam]

Good day mrmeech. This is a great mod! I just updated to version 2 with the javascript calendar and noticed some strange behavior--from my customers, not the mod. They don't always enter a date. Consequently I get a date of Tuesday, November 30, 1999 by default.

I was wondering if there was a way to make the date selection required?

I also have this same issue. Some customers don't always need to specify a date so when left blank I get the same date in the back end. I guess I can disregard the date for now but is there anyway for it just stay blank or print the current date instead of a date in the past?

[prosam]

That's a bummer and i will look into it within the next day or so.. It's most likely just an incompatible or bad tag somewhere.

Hey MrMeech,
Did you ever figure out the issue with the calendar button not showing in Firefox?

I'm running Firefox 3.0.7 and this is what I see on my screen:
http://clip2net.com/clip/m7120/1238439245-clip-6kb.png

In IE7 I see the button just fine:
http://clip2net.com/clip/m7120/1238439309-clip-6kb.png

You mentioned a bad tag, what do you mean by that?