Shipping class descriptions... missing variable

[yann]

Hi guys,

On V7 business, in business settings > shipping & handling, the properties of each shipping class has 2 fields: name and description. The name field ends up as the selection name on the website but the description field doesn't seem to end up anywhere. Anyone know where this outputs or how to display it on the website?

Here is what i am trying to achieve:

I've changed the shipping options from a drop down menu to radio buttons (http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=18139) to make it more obvious that there are several options. I would like to have a popup link (or tooltip) next to each option with the details of that service. As i have around 10 shipping classes, it would make sense to have the 'more info' link displayed next to each shipping class available as opposed to a long list of links, most of which are not relevant (ie: international details not needed when UK only shipping options displayed)

Ideally the link would open a popup (or tooltip) featuring the text entered in the shipping class properties box.

Any ideas or suggestions here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

PS: I thought about adding the link directly in the shipping class property name field but this is restricted to 40 characters only. Increasing this would also solve the problem...

[Kermy]

We had the same sort of problem, didn't look into using the properties box though. I put each description into a javascript variable, and placed an 'info box' on the page underneath the class drop-down. Then, when a user changed their selection, the description was read from the appropriate variable and displayed in the info box. That way the user doesn't have to click an extra link, and can't say they didn't see the details of the service they selected!

You could adapt this to work with radio buttons too. It would be useful to read the descriptions directly from actinic though, if anyone knows how...

[sumiya]

Hi Yann,

I'm afraid that increasing the number of characters is not possible as this restriction is imposed by the coding of the software rather than the database. I suggest to explain the shipping details in "Terms and Conditions".

[Jethro]

As in the 1st post of this thread, can anyone tell me where actinic stores the class properties, as entered for a shipping class so that these can be displayed in the checkout. Ideally I dont want to hard code them in, so if someone else needs to change them in the future it will be easier for them. Any help greatly appreciated.

Jethro

[Bruce]

Jethro,

This has been covered in the Knowledge Base http://knowledge.actinic.com/cgi-bin/ss000007.pl?PRODREF=CD525&NOLOGIN=1&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://knowledge.actinic.com/acatalog/

Kind regards,