Shipping List with Seperate Continent Lists

[grantglendinnin]

Hello people.

I've just started to integrate Europe into our system today, eventually.

On the first checkout page, where the user selects their shipping destination, how do I do the following for the 'Country' field list to appear in this format:

Select Country
-------------
Channel Islands
England
Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Scottish Islands
Wales
--------------
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
etc
etc

I've been playing around with it all day trying to change the order other than having it alphabetical and it beats me time and time again - I'm betting (and probably hoping) that it's so simplistic that I'd hate to attempt to explain it right now

Thanks in advance,
Grant

[cdicken]

Hi Grant

You can change the order in 'Settings | Locations'. You could even create a dummy country called '---------' if you want in order to get the separator.

[grantglendinnin]

Hi Grant

You can change the order in 'Settings | Locations'. You could even create a dummy country called '---------' if you want in order to get the separator.

Ah, I knew it - so simple yet so delicate. I'll get onto the case straight away

Cheers,
Grant

[pinbrook]

Hi Grant

You can change the order in 'Settings | Locations'. You could even create a dummy country called '---------' if you want in order to get the separator.

how would you prevent someone from choosing -------- as their destination country?

[cdicken]

If you don't put that country in a shipping zone, Actinic will basically tell the customer to select a valid country (as long as you have 'If Shipping Band Not Defined' set to 'Do Not Allow Shipping')

[grantglendinnin]

how would you prevent someone from choosing -------- as their destination country?

Nice question Jo, here's my answer:

No answer given

If you don't put that country in a shipping zone, Actinic will basically tell the customer to select a valid country (as long as you have 'If Shipping Band Not Defined' set to 'Do Not Allow Shipping')

Does this mean I'd have to set shipping weights and shipping bands for every product? Our shipping costs are based on weight alone.

Cheers,
Grant

[cdicken]

If you don't put that country in a shipping zone, Actinic will basically tell the customer to select a valid country (as long as you have 'If Shipping Band Not Defined' set to 'Do Not Allow Shipping')

No - you just make sure that your new '--------' country is not added to any of your shipping zones. By doing that, no-one will be able to select that as their country.

[Simon Clark]

Hi

how would you get the '------' displayed on the site ?
I have put this in and no seperator shows (just the list of countries)

Thanks

[leehack]

Setup a country using a series of hyphens as the name I expect.

[Simon Clark]

done that but they do not show when uploaded.

[leehack]

Is it included in tax settings?

[grantglendinnin]

Is it included in tax settings?

Answered my questions before I needed to post for this.

Thanks Lee.

[Simon Clark]

No - you just make sure that your new '--------' country is not added to any of your shipping zones. By doing that, no-one will be able to select that as their country.

Chris

If you do not add it to a shipping zone, then it does not show up on the site.
Therefore to show it on the site you have to make it "selectable" by the customer which sorts of defeats the object.

regards

[cdicken]

Ah - good point. I had forgotten that feature.

Erm - I don't know how to stop people selecting '-----' from the list then other than a piece of JavaScript on the 'Next>' button that validates the selection.

[dallen]

we did this

Go Design -> Library -> Layout -> Location -> Country.

This brings up the very simple layout for each selection in the Country Drop-Down.

At the top of the layout add something like (depending on your requirement)

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22CountryCode%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22AT%22" >
<option value="" disabled="disabled">--------------
</actinic:block>

That will place a selection of "--------------" with a value of "" before Austria (the first non-uk country in your list).