Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

[lesliekirk]

I need to be able to display an addendum message based on a shipping method. I'm assuming that this would need to be done on the OSEL page since this is where the methods are found. The store has the Shipping Rules configured so it works out that only one shipping method is offered. I need to be able to display a message only when one specific method is displayed.

I was hoping it was going to be as simple as this:

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:code NE 'BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03'">
03
<mvt:else>
else
</mvt:if>

But of course it's not. The 03 displays every time. So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Leslie

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

method:code = '03'

BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03

is created by

method:module $':'$ method:code

[lesliekirk]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

Okay so if I change it to

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:code NE '03'">
my message
<mvt:else>

</mvt:if>

So it looks like my mistake is trying to use l.settings:method:code before determining that it's a shipping module. Now to figure it out...

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

I *think* what you want is this:

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:module$':'$l.settings:meth od:code NE 'BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03'">

[lesliekirk]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

So I feel like I'm trying to balance a chemical equation here.

I did try

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:module$':'$l.settings:method:code NE 'BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03'">NE
<mvt:else>
EQ 03
</mvt:if>

then I tried

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:shippingmethods:module$':'$l.settings:shippingmethods:code NE 'BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03'">NE
<mvt:else>
EQ 03
</mvt:if>

Both with the same results of displaying NE even when the code is 03

FYI, I have this code in the footer of the OSEL page.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

I have even tried adding this inside the shipping mvt:foreach loop

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:code EQ '03'">
<mvt:if expr = "g.ShippingMethod EQ 'BROK_UPS_CUSTOM:03'">
03
<mvt:else>
Not 03
</mvt:if>
</mvt:if>

There is no joy in Mudville.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

And the lightbulb has come on. I wasn't putting Bruce's snippet inside the foreach loop. Once I did that, it was exactly what I needed. Thanks Bruce!

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

This is why therapy works, you have to talk it out, lol

[eldon99]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

How did that make you feel Leslie? (Sorry couldn't help myself).

I am definitely bookmarking this one. Great snippet for future projects! Thanks Bruce and Leslie for bring this up.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

How did that make you feel Leslie? (Sorry couldn't help myself).

LOL, funny thing, I don't think most people know what my degrees are in

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

Yea, sorry my other post didn't make it through (i tried sending it through email) when the forums where freaking out last night.

But I see you figured it out. You want to run the test inside the look and create a variable to be used later on the page.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Conditional Message based on Shipping Method

Well, mine's in Journalism :)

[lesliekirk]

So I'm coming back to my own question as it seems I needed this tidbit again. I tried using this:

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:method:module$':'$l.settings:method:code EQ 'baseunit:8'">
my message here

and when I went to update the page, I was greeted with this awful message:

Error compiling template: Line 101: Expression compilation failed: Invalid Argument ':' Found in expression

So what did I do wrong?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Try escaping the ':' . i.e., '\:' (though i don't recall every having to do this before, perhaps the syntax checking has been tighten up in a recent release.

[eldon99]

What about if you do an mvt:assign to a variable and test for that?