Delivery Date

[merchant2012]

We have a specific requirement for the delivery date. We do not provide delivery service on the weekends and also all the orders placed by 4:00pm will be delivery next day.  If orders are placed at 4:01pm will be delivered following day. I wonder if there is a ways to customise the calendar/delivery dates?  Please help.

Thanks

[smitchell80]

Hi,

We do not have a feature that will monitor and restrict delivery service as required per your requirements. 

The workaround is to note this within your shop layout to the customer of your delivery policy.  You may want to include this in both the cart, checkout or even the invoice layout as a note/disclaimer to communicate this information to the client accordingly.

Kind regards,

-Sidney

[merchant2012]

Thanks Sidney.  I have created a datepicker through custom field on the checkout page.  Is there any way to at least disable selection for the weekends? I think it can be done through jscript but don't know how exactly.  I am assuming that the selected date, you will be able to see in the customer order so our warehouse staff knows when to deliver.

[mario_gudelj · Accepted solution]

There's unfortunately no way to do that as you do not have the direct access to the calendar file since it's shared amongst all sites on BC.

-m

[merchant2012]

I am really surprised!  The following code works so is there any way I can assign the value of the #mydate to custom field created in BC.

<script>

$(function() {

                    $("#mydate").datepicker({ beforeShowDay: $.datepicker.noWeekends });

          });

</script>

Thanks

[mario_gudelj]

That's a jQuery date picker. If you want to use it you have to use Text(String) field in your form, then use Firebug to inspect the field's ID and replace "#mydate" with that ID.

Cheers,

-m

[merchant2012]

Thanks. Is this is appropriate? I am just assigning the value to custom and will make the custom field display to none?  Excuse my programming skills.

$("input[id='datepicker']").change( function() {

alert($(this).val())

var val = datepicker.value;

CAT_Custom_271170_96280.value = val;

});

[Andrei_Duca]

I suggest to not use global variable to retrieve the value of html input identified by datepicker id (tests ok only in webkit powered browsers (Chrome and Safari), doesn't work in IE or Firefox).

So instead I suggest using this snippet of code:

        $("input#datepicker").change( function() {

        // read the value of the input (safe method)

                var val = $(this).val();

                CAT_Custom_271170_96280.value = val;

        //alert(CAT_Custom_271170_96280.value);

        });

Also please make sure that the ID of the custom field is the right one - http://screencasteu.worldsecuresystems.com/Andrei/2012-06-12_1730.png

Andrei

[merchant2012]

Thanks Andrei.  I am trying to capture the delivery date on the Shipping Cart so I can customize the datepicker based on the selected shipping option e.g. Saturday select only, etc. But if I pick the date from the datepicker and then select the shipping option the selected date disappears. .  I think this date is not storing/saving hence it is disappearing.  Any guidance/workaround or am I doing something wrong? please.

Many thanks, SM