ship/bill page glitches

[allan]

Hello all,

I'm observing some unfriendly behavior on the checkout ship/bill page.

1. My default country is the USA. So the State/Province menu shows
US states. If I use the Country menu and select Australia or Canada,
I expect the State/Province
menu to show the appropriate states or provinces for that country.
Instead, I need to click Continue, get the page back with an error
message, and THEN I see the correct list of states or provinces. Is
this a Satchmo bug, or have I got something set wrong?

2. Similarly, if I check the "Shipping same as billing" box, I don't
see anything happen then. I'd expect to see either the shipping
fields filled in from the billing fields, or (better) the billing
fields go away, and come back if I uncheck the box. Instead, the
billing fields stay as they were. As a user, I'm uncertain whether I
still need to fill them in or not. And if I have an error in one of
the billing fields, the eror message shows up in both sections,
suggesting that I need to fix the value in both places!

Is the problem that Satchmo isn't capable of responding to changes in
menu selections and box checks immediately?

[Chris Moffitt]

What version of Satchmo are you using?

-Chris

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[Allan Stavely]

Tip circa October 9. Has this behavior been fixed since then?

- Allan

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[Chris Moffitt]

No, the changes we made for the javascript to support your use case were made prior to October.

I am not sure why you are seeing that error.

-Chris

[arlolra]

does your browser have javascript turned off?
is the site failing to load any of the scripts on that page?

open a js debugger and look for errors
or check your request logs for 404s

[Allan Stavely]

Hmm, the 404 suggestion may lead us somewhere. In host.access.log I
have a number of lines that look like

... "GET /static/js/jquery-1.4.2.js HTTP/1.1" 404 1782 ...

In my /static/js/ directory I have no file jquery-1.4.2.js .
Other files such as /static/js/jquery.form.js are there and
apparently get served OK.

- Allan

[Chris Moffitt]

You should copy the correct files into your static dir.

Here's what it should look like - https://bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo/src/f762f5a91b0a/satchmo/static/js/

-Chris

[Allan Stavely]

Yes! That solved the problem. Somehow my static/ directory had a
jquery.js but no jquery-1.4.2.js .

Many thanks, Chris and arlolra!

- Allan

[Allan Stavely]

I found that the root cause of my problem was that I hadn't copied the
new static/js directory to my store the last time I upgraded my
Satchmo from the tip. My bad, but just as a suggestion...

As a matter of directory organization, should those files be in my
store directory at all? Couldn't the js files work like the template
files: default versions live in the installation, and your store
directory contains only the files that override the default versions?

In my case, I haven't customized any of the js files, so my static/js
directory could then be empty.

Similarly, perhaps, for the other directories in static/ .

Thanks again, folks,

- Allan

[Alex Robbins]

If you can hold out for a little while longer, django 1.3 is going to
have a fix for this sort of thing:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/

Alex

[Allan Stavely]

Yes, that looks like it will help. Sure, I'll wait! Thanks, Alex!

- Allan