Yes, the USPS ones do have the service names and I don't really like
it because each time you use them you get an error message. In a way
it advertises the possibility of the feature, as John pointed out,
but that really shouldn't be done through error messages, that should
be done through documentation.
My vote would be to remove all of the service names, and just make
sure they are all adequately documented in the Basic Production Setup
Guide on docs.ofbiz.org.
-David
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:44 AM, Tim Ruppert wrote:
John, I believe what David was saying was that the reason that the
service name is not in there by default is that, then, in the
default instance, the DHL service would be invoked without proper
information.
I ran into the same problem with UPS - and asked the same question,
but it was decided that the demo data would contain information
that would show how these processes work, but would not work for
each of the different carrier options out of the box. It should be
spelled out clearly in the production setup guide - and if it's not
- then we should correct it there.
Any additional thoughts?
Cheers,
Tim
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John Martin wrote:
Hi Dave,
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you mean that setting the
serviceName to call the API's wouldn't work properly. That is
correct
do to the missing access keys but the way that the service (at least
DHL) is written, it will log an error and I believe even display that
shipping properties need to be configured. For someone starting out,
this is already explained in the guide and easy to configure.
If we don't set the serviceName correctly, most new users will
have no
means to set the entity attribute. It is not a visible field in the
EditProductStoreShipSetup form.
My recommendation is to set the attribute for all of the carriers.
USPS is prepopulated correctly. I don't see/understand why we
wouldn't do the same for DHL and UPS.
I've included the patch in the jira issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-328
Thanks, John
