Nice work guys!

I notice that on the livetest you only have UPS running. Do we know the status of how the FedEx and USPS modules perform with Alpha 8? Since my site is live I've got to make sure they're ready for the big stage before I upgrade.

Mohammed, I believe that's because you've checked out your copy from the Bazaar repository. It doesn't do the keyword substitution that CVS does for releases packaged up on Drupal.org. If you were to get the .info files from d.o, it would show up properly.

Superb

Yes, you do. Shipping quotes are now using Workflow-ng, and the shipping quote methods need to implement hook_configuration() to be useful. Take a look at uc_ups_configuration() and uc_flatrate_configuration() for examples of the minimum requirements. uc_usps_configuration() shows how to use conditions on two different methods. These configurations are set up as defaults, so users can change them as they need to. Mostly this will be adding conditions so the quote is calculated under specific circumstances.

It's really just a cut & paste job. Just copy uc_ups_configuration() and change everything from ups to worldquote.

Workflow-ng caches these configurations, though. Once the module is changed, empty the cache_workflow_ng table to see it in the interface.

Hi. I used to see country-specific shipping methods in 7e. Now with 8 I don't see the option. How would one enable say flat rate for us and canada and by weight for the rest of the world? Thanks in advance

This checkout setting does not work on Alpha 8
"Hide shipping information when possible for carts with no shippable items."

When ticked, it ALWAYS hide the delivery address and shipping quote regardless of whether the item is set to shippable or not.

One extra question
For each item, under shipping settings -> flat shipping rate
How does it work? Any numbers I put in there has no effect on the shipping quote.
I can only change the shipping quote under
Http://../admin/store/settings/quotes/methods/flatrate

Eric, I had this same error when I upgraded to alpha 8.

I ran update.php and this error went away.

http://www.yoursite.com/update.php

thanks for the info lyle, ubercart and you guys are really great.

Yes, I have run update.php. (I remember seeing 2 things are updated, can't remember what they are.)

I even tried to re-run the database update for the uc-file module but the database re-run fail

One suggestion, I noticed that there is no date printed on the invoice generated by Ubercart. Putting the date there would be useful.

Thanks
Eric

My UPS shipping quote stopped working and I have been trying to read up on this new Workflow-ng thing but I get a fatal error when I try and enable the Workflow-ng UI...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function cclinks_admin_menu() in .../public_html/catalog/sites/all/modules/workflow_ng/cclinks/cclinks.module on line 35

What did I do wrong?

Update: Works in Checkout but not in View Cart when you put in your zip code.

@mcneelycorp: Thanks for the heads up. I noticed that yesterday when trying out a demo myself with the UberInstaller. The fix has been put in place.

@Ryan - Got ya =) Thanks everything works great! Upgraded to Drupal 5.3 from 5.2, and to Alpha 8 from Alpha 7c.

I noticed a bug where this was happening w/ product features... are you using either role promotions or file downloads on these products, or is it simply happening for every product?

Well, I just tried to move on to the latest version, but I got a Drupal 'Page not found' error when trying to browse root. I'm testing the upgrade on a subdomain, to avoid problems with the main domain's live site. I had UC Alpha 7c and Drupal 5.1. I uploaded Drupal 5.3 and UC Alpha 8, ran update.php and then got the error. I changed settings.php and checked htaccess, but I can't figure out what's wrong. I'm using a copy of the live site's database. Before I upgraded Drupal and UC, I checked the subdomain test site and it was working fine. I tried yesterday to perform the update locally, but got the same error.

I thought it wouldn't be that difficult, since kaizen upgraded from a similar scenario. Anything that must be changed on the database file or elsewhere(already had changed any occurrences of the main domain with the correct address for the test subdomain)?

Thanks for your help =)

Update: I guess it was a silly mistake. Just changed frontpage to node at 'Site Information'. However, when I first installed Übercart, I didn't know that such modules should be placed at sites/all/modules. Instead, I placed them at the default /modules directory. I tried to change Übercart's location for this upgrade, but I noticed it was not working correctly. When I tried to enable modules, I got too many errors. Can't I change Übercart's location to sites/all/modules without messing up the site's configuration or database or something? Thanks again.

I've installed Ubercart Alpha 8 and workflow_ng, but have some problems with tax calculation. Maybe I am using it wrong.

In Store administration > Configuration > tax settings:
I created two items: StateA_tax and StateB_tax

[BTW: I had one item before alpha 8, and it had an entry in the "Area" column. I could not see how to set up this value for the 2nd item, (or even if it important at all), so I deleted item 1 and recreated it, w/o Area value]

In Site building > workflow_ng > StateA_tax:
I created a condition to "check an order's delivery zone", setting the condition to StateA

Similarly for Site building > workflow_ng > StateB_tax: etting the condition to StateB.

Now when I test the Shopping Cart Checkout, when I select StateA, the proper tax appears. When I modify the zone to StateB, the tax for StateB is added, but tax for StateA is NOT removed.

Am I setting it right? What should I do?

> If you reload the page in your browser after you modify the zone to StateB, do the taxes now show up properly?
Simple reload just clears all the user data and starts with no taxes, as well as no entry in the address at all, so it is not really a useful step. "Review Order" however does clear the old tax and so just the new tax.

However, the expected behavior is that when you change the zone (state), the old tax should go away and the new tax should appear.

Indeed same problem. I am moving my discussion to that thread.

What got changed? Übercart shouldn't have done anything to the taxonomy settings, I don't think.

Hi folks,

We too got the "unknown column 'shippable'" error as a result of upgrading from alpha7e to alpha8, but update.php has no effect on this error.

What do we have to do manually to fix it?

Thanks,
Chuck and Kim

I am having an issue with taxes (i just started doing sandbox testing). when i submit orders as a single line item the total is correct but it messes up the tax and product price. if i submit it as individual items it keeps the correct product and shipping costs but tax is modified and makes the total purchase price off. i can provide screen shots and anything else that would be needed.

edit:
I found my problem, i was taxing a line item and that was throwing it off.

Check out your access control... I added in a permission called "delete any order" that lets you delete an order even if it has payments. This was primarily to assist folks doing testing on a site. If you're logged in as user 1, this means you'll always be able to delete any order.

Alpha 8 is mostly working with my fresh install. Two things:

1. Someone already mentioned this, but the option for Delivery pane to not be shown if products are not shippable is not working. I poked around in the code via bazaar and from what I can see the only place that the uc_cart_delivery_not_shippable variable is evaluated is in the billing pane. There are no checks for the Delivery pane for whether the cart is shippable. However, I'm not sure what the patch should be... I did confirm that the shippable variable is set to 0 in the uc_products table for the item in question.
2. The "Add to cart redirect" is not working. It always goes back to the product page. I'm not sure what the problem is here since I confirmed that the add_to_cart() function is returning the correct redirect value. Anyone else have this problem?
3. Kind of minor, but worth a mention. The line item taxes calculation isn't being updated if I change the Delivery Zone more than once. What triggers line items to be recalculated?

Thanks for making the patch on this.

Hmm, odd. Had the module been installed before? If you browse to admin/build/modules/uninstall and see that File Downloads is listed in modules that can be uninstalled, the installation of tables won't fire because Drupal thinks the tables are already installed. That's one guess I have.

Well I see two issues here, one is the open_basedir restriction. This is something that you (if you have Apache knowledge) can change in your vhosts.conf file, or you can ask your hosting provider to do it for you. Chances are they'll have no problem doing it.

The other issue is file permissions, or the file location itself. If you're sure you've setup the File Downloads folder correctly, /admin/store/settings/products/edit/features (File Downloads config), then it's a permissions error.

I would setup your Downloads folder to look for an absolute path, in other words:
/home/upstre5/public_html/folksongsingalong.com/files

(make sure there is a directory here and that you have given it global read/write permissions - you can do this easily in FTP software, such as FileZilla, by creating the directory, right-clicking it and choosing Permissions)

open_basedir restriction basically means that, "PHP is only allowed to access files from within this directory and its subdirectories" and if you try to grab a file from outside that protected directory, you get that restriction error. This is mainly helpful if you are storing your files outside the public_html folder, or "webroot".

I hope this makes sense, feel free to ask more questions if you still need help. You might try searching the forum as well, since your problem is not an uncommon one Good luck!

eric,
I have the same problem - category fileds disappeared after movong the database to live server. Can you please describe your solution? Thanks!