Re: Adding up weights
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17229
interpreted = N
texte = UPS offers them free from their website -- you just have to do the leg work to get the right ones -- basically where are you shipping from and what that lookup means...>I am told by a friend of mine that for Microsoft Commerce solutions there >exist companies that (among other things) sell electronic shipment tables >(with current pricing) for most of the major carriers, broken down by weight >and zone (one presumes they have zip code to zone lookup tables too). I am >attempting to find out who does this, and if they offer them in tab >deliminated formats. > >So, how about that built in UnitShipWeight ? > > Brian B. Burton > BOFH >--------------------------------------------------------------- > MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions > 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com > > >---------- >>From: PCS Technical Support
>>To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >>Subject: Re: Adding up weights >>Date: Thu, Apr 23, 1998, 1:39 PM >> > >>>Each of my products has a fixed weight but the shipping cost is based on >>>total order weight, I want to add the weights (multiplied by the quantity) >>>together on my invoice page so that I have a total weight to work out the >>>shipping cost >> >>The simplest approach is to set the unitShipCost field in your product >>database to be whatever the dollar cost is to ship that item. You would >>pre-calculate the cost to ship 1 item based on its weight, and put that >>cost into the database. Once you do that, there are no special formulas >>needed, because WebCatalog automatically does the quantity and total >>calculations. >> >>Or, if you really want a formula, the following should work: >> >>[math][lineitems][quantity]*[weight]+[/lineitems]0[/math] >> >>This generates a math equation like 1*2.5 + 3*1.1 + 15*2.2 + 0, if you have >>quantities 1,3,15 and weights 2.5, 1.1, 2.2 >> >>Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== >>Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, >>11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, >>San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon >>619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ >> >> >> Jay Van Vark ******************************* Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* 619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. **
Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:
UPS offers them free from their website -- you just have to do the leg work to get the right ones -- basically where are you shipping from and what that lookup means...>I am told by a friend of mine that for Microsoft Commerce solutions there >exist companies that (among other things) sell electronic shipment tables >(with current pricing) for most of the major carriers, broken down by weight >and zone (one presumes they have zip code to zone lookup tables too). I am >attempting to find out who does this, and if they offer them in tab >deliminated formats. > >So, how about that built in UnitShipWeight ? > > Brian B. Burton > BOFH >--------------------------------------------------------------- > MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions > 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com > > >---------- >>From: PCS Technical Support >>To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >>Subject: Re: Adding up weights >>Date: Thu, Apr 23, 1998, 1:39 PM >> > >>>Each of my products has a fixed weight but the shipping cost is based on >>>total order weight, I want to add the weights (multiplied by the quantity) >>>together on my invoice page so that I have a total weight to work out the >>>shipping cost >> >>The simplest approach is to set the unitShipCost field in your product >>database to be whatever the dollar cost is to ship that item. You would >>pre-calculate the cost to ship 1 item based on its weight, and put that >>cost into the database. Once you do that, there are no special formulas >>needed, because WebCatalog automatically does the quantity and total >>calculations. >> >>Or, if you really want a formula, the following should work: >> >>[math][lineitems][quantity]*[weight]+[/lineitems]0[/math] >> >>This generates a math equation like 1*2.5 + 3*1.1 + 15*2.2 + 0, if you have >>quantities 1,3,15 and weights 2.5, 1.1, 2.2 >> >>Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== >>Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, >>11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, >>San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon >>619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ >> >> >> Jay Van Vark ******************************* Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* 619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. **
Jay Van Vark
DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW!
Top Articles:
Talk List
The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine...
Related Readings:
[WebDNA] Retrieving a PDF from an email (2008)
OT-JS why it does not run on Mac (2001)
Newbie Question about seeting price to 0 (1998)
Creating a back button (1999)
$Append for Users outside the ADMIN group (1997)
RE: [WebDNA] What does PHP(5) has, that Webdna hasn't (2009)
Mozilla/4. and Browser Info.txt (1997)
[WebDNA] Cheers (2008)
form data submission gets truncated (1997)
Reserved Words (2003)
Instructions for Digest (1997)
Purchase Plugin Missing (1996)
6.0 upgrade issue? (2005)
[Announce] Newest Commerce Site based on WebCatalog (1997)
WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting -FIXED! (1997)
WC2b12: Yes, Formulas.db is for real (1997)
WebCat2 - [format thousands] (1997)
Install Webcatalog under NT4.0 and Microsoft IIS 2.0 (1997)
[WebDNA] Retrieving a PDF from an email (2008)
[WebDNA] StandardConversions.db (2016)