shipping by length - wish list

[Darren B]

Hi

could someone add to the wish list the option to ship by length of item, all i need is for the basket to look for the longest length of item.

exactly the same as by weight but instead of adding the weights together to get a total weight of items ordered it looks for the item with the biggest size and does the calculation on this.

Cheers
Darren

[David N]

Now that would be Cool

[Mike Hughes]

It would be nice to have the option of using the heaviest item as the determinator of shipping price rather than the total weight.

Mike

[zmagyar]

Hi,

Just a wild guess but this can be achieved by few line of changes in ShippingTemplate.pl (and using the weight field for length). Just look for the following bit:

		if ("" ne $::s_Ship_OpaqueDataTables{$::s_Ship_sShipProducts[$j]})	# If we have a weight
			{
			$::s_Ship_nTotalWeight += $::s_Ship_OpaqueDataTables{$::s_Ship_sShipProducts[$j]} * $::s_Ship_nShipQuantities[$j];
			}
		#
		# If not, we use the default weight
		#
		else
			{
			$::s_Ship_nTotalWeight += $DefaultWeight * $::s_Ship_nShipQuantities[$j];	# Use default weight
			}

...and change it to have the following instead

      my $nNewWeight = ("" ne $::s_Ship_OpaqueDataTables{$::s_Ship_sShipProducts[$j]}) ?
			$::s_Ship_OpaqueDataTables{$::s_Ship_sShipProducts[$j]} :
			$DefaultWeight;	# Use default weight
			
		if ($nNewWeight > $::s_Ship_nTotalWeight))
			{
			$::s_Ship_nTotalWeight = $nNewWeight;
			}

Please note that the usual disclaimer strongly applies here. I have typed the replacement code directly into the forum. Therefore it wasn't tested at all and of course Actinic doesn't support this change in any form (nor do I ). So you can apply only on your own risk (strongly recommended to backup the file first).

Anyway I hope this helps.

Regards,
Zoltan

[zmagyar]

Sorry, but the solution above doesn't work because the multi packaging. Some more tweaking is required to get it work what is not suitable for the forum.
I leave this with Chris to add to the wish list.

Regards,

Zoltan

[Darren B]

ok thanks for having a look

Darren