Admin Simple Create Order [Support Thread]

[fotofx]

Do you have items in the root category? It does not seem to function unless all items are in categories.

[jocezilla]

Hmm, all their items are in categories...

I just upgraded to Edit Orders 2.04 and that solved the issue. :)

Download for 2.04: http://www.zencartmod.com/

Do you have items in the root category? It does not seem to function unless all items are in categories.

[kalastaja]

I would be VERY GRATEFUL if someone could get "Admin Simple Create Order" to work. I do assume this is the thread for that!? "Edit Order" or "Super Order" are nice, but I would be satisfied with a working "Simple". Adding the zenAdminID to "Add product"-link helps so far as not being thrown out of Admin, merely redirected to startup page. I can get the addition of a product partly "working" by overriding "if($action=="add_product)" - it's then displayed at the bottom of the page. BUT any attempt to try and run action "add_product" ends up on startup page.

[DivaVocals]

I would be VERY GRATEFUL if someone could get "Admin Simple Create Order" to work. I do assume this is the thread for that!? "Edit Order" or "Super Order" are nice, but I would be satisfied with a working "Simple". Adding the zenAdminID to "Add product"-link helps so far as not being thrown out of Admin, merely redirected to startup page. I can get the addition of a product partly "working" by overriding "if($action=="add_product)" - it's then displayed at the bottom of the page. BUT any attempt to try and run action "add_product" ends up on startup page.

If you've read the posts in this support thread, you'll see that what DOESN'T work with this module at this point is the version of Edit Orders it bundles in with it (v1.53). And let me further clarify something else that even the original author of this mod kinda left a little unclear.. SUPER ORDERS is simply the default orders.php on steroids. It was NEVER intended to be what Create Orders is or even what Edit Orders (v2.xx at least) has become.

This "add-on" simply takes two existing add-ons (Edit Orders and Add Customers from Admin) and allows them to be used together to "create" orders from the Zen Cart admin.

If you read over my previous posts you'll see I did a fair amount of work testing this mod..

The ONLY thing Create Orders "adds" to either of these add-ons (Edit Orders and Add Customers from Admin) is:

• A method to create an order that can then be "edited" using Edit Orders
• A shipping rate table display (which doesn't work for all shipping methods as noted in my previous posts)
• A means to send out an e-mail which is supposed to look like the normal order confirmation e-mail.

I have documented all the issues I found with the shipping table (doesn't work for all rates), and the confirmation e-mail (inconsistent sending behavior, and the formatting is WRONG)

In a nutshell if you want Create Orders to work AND you can live without the shipping rate table AND you can live without the confirmation e-mail functions (the comments feature will work just fine in it's place), AND you understand that there is a bug with the way it grabs the customers state data also documented in my previous posts), then simply install the latest version of Edit Orders (v2.04 link posted above) and all will be right with the world..

[kalastaja]

Shipping rate and e-mail no problem, BUT the thing I need is

A method to create an order that can then be "edited" using Edit Orders

So which way should I go?

[DivaVocals]

Shipping rate and e-mail no problem, BUT the thing I need is

A method to create an order that can then be "edited" using Edit Orders

So which way should I go?

Easy...

In a nutshell if you want Create Orders to work AND you can live without the shipping rate table AND you can live without the confirmation e-mail functions (the comments feature will work just fine in it's place), AND you understand that there is a bug with the way it grabs the customers state data also documented in my previous posts), then simply install the latest version of Edit Orders (v2.04 link posted above) and all will be right with the world..

[kalastaja]

Wow, nice colours!

[DivaVocals]

The shipping table disappeared too just seems the mod needs some major work all we really wanted was the create order part without the edit orders and create customer which are usuless to us as the Add Customer module from the downloads still works without flaws, super orders takes care of the editing

So basically the Create Order only function is what we are looking for it works with what we have installed of this mod with Super Orders so I KNOW that is not an issue it picks up the order just like if it was from the customer side of the store

I am willing to donate for the mod but until it works properly guess that will be put on hold for now

I cannot waste to much time on something we can manually create from the customer side of the store by using the alternative method Login As A Customer mod which works without flaws.

When the Shipping Table from the Create Order page was removed this kind of got boring if you know what I mean. Thanks for your help though guess I will wait until you release yours if ever.

Unless I get bored and go at it again which I probably will

I think I made it clear in ALL of my earlier posts that installing the new version of Edit Orders and creating the required functions file will solve the immediate issues folks were having (being re-directed to the admin home page and the blank page or function errors displayed).

I think I also made it clear that the shipping rate tables (which never worked correctly) and the confirmation e-mails (which also never worked correctly and could be replaced with the orders comments functions) would no longer be available. What would be left is the SIMPLE ability to CREATE an order.

Let me re-post some of what I wrote earlier.. because it's relevant to what you just posted..

... let me further clarify something else that even the original author of this mod kinda left a little unclear.. SUPER ORDERS is simply the default orders.php on steroids. It (Super Orders) was NEVER intended to be what Create Orders is or even what Edit Orders (v2.xx at least) has become.

This "add-on" simply takes two existing add-ons (Edit Orders and Add Customers from Admin) and allows them to be used together to "create" orders from the Zen Cart admin.

If you read over my previous posts you'll see I did a fair amount of work testing this mod..

The ONLY thing Create Orders "adds" to either of these add-ons (Edit Orders and Add Customers from Admin) is:

• A method to create an order that can then be "edited" using Edit Orders
• A shipping rate table display is added to the Edit Orders page (which doesn't work for all shipping methods as noted in my previous posts)
• A means to send out an e-mail which is supposed to look like the normal order confirmation e-mail has been added to Edit Orders. (which also doesn't work correctly as I have documented in previous posts)

I have documented all the issues I found with the shipping rate table (doesn't work for all rates), and the confirmation e-mail (inconsistent sending behavior, and the formatting is WRONG)

In a nutshell if you want Create Orders to work AND you can live without the shipping rate table AND you can live without the confirmation e-mail functions (the comments feature will work just fine in it's place), AND you understand that there is a bug with the way it grabs the customers state data also documented in my previous posts), then simply install the latest version of Edit Orders (v2.04 link posted above) and all will be right with the world..

I've got Create Orders working with Edit Orders 2.xx, and frankly if I am "creating" an order from the admin, I can live with manually entering in the state for those orders/customers which require it..

The name of this add-on is Admin SIMPLE Create Orders.. This title amply describes what I have working on my test store.. a SIMPLE order creation method. So I'll let someone else have a go with building out the rest of this nightmarish add-on with all those other bells and whistles (shipping rates, order confirmation e-mails, etc..) I'll steer clear of that and minimize the amount of grey hair I have on my head thank you very much..

I'll probably bundle up my working version of this add-on and submit it to the downloads..

It won't have the bells and whistles in it (shipping rates, order confirmation e-mails, etc..), but IMHO what is currently available right now is only half functioning anyway. AND there are adequate "workarounds" for those bells and whistles.. (shipping rates can be looked up and the existing comments features will work JUST FINE for customer order notification)

IMHO... an add-on which at least serves the basic intent of this add-on is better than one that contains features which are buggy and/or do not work well..

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I tried this before commenting that line out it made no difference I tried every thing this thread said including from that blog all the same results from a fresh store and a modified store. All ended up in the same result. Fixed one thing and another thing was removed lol

Then something is wrong with your function file, and without seeing your site files I can't say what.. Also if you added this function to the edit_orders.php function (as one post in this thread suggested) AND also created a the separate function file for Create Orders as I suggested, then this might create some issues.. Again, without seeing your site files, I cannot see what it is you have done and what exactly is causing the issues you are describing.

That said, I do know that commenting out that line prevents Create Orders from including the currency, and currency_value data in the orders table. Without these values in the orders table, while you can indeed add products to your newly created order, the product line total will display incorrectly. (they will show either 0.00 or no dollar value at all)