AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Is the Exported bit field in the Orders table used for anything?
I could really use that field for something else.
Could I safely use it for another purpose?

I can't find any documentation on this. Anyone know what it is?

I've been using to flag orders after they are pushed to my fulfiller. Don't know if Able has ever implemented the field; I'm using an older build. In my world, my app is the only thing that touches it.

Thanks Nick.
Do you think this is related to the Data Port? Where else would an order be "exported" to?

That would be one possibility. I think how I'm using is more likely - the field implies a reason to persist the status; i.e. once an order is exported, you don't want to be able to export it a second time. Dataport is a more generic tool - you might be exporting for reporting purposes, in which case you would want to be able to export an order over and over.

Able does not use this field.

I use it in my Quickbooks module to mark which orders have been pushed to Quickbooks.

I wish there were a few more of these "un-used" fields.
It would make customizations a lot easier.
Should add a few more in Products, Orders, and OrderItems.
I guess they are not needed in Products because of custom fields,
but definately in Orders and OrderItems.

LineMessage in orderitems is unused.

thanks . . I'll take it!

AbleMods wrote:LineMessage in orderitems is unused.

The nice thing about it is it's also in the basket class. That means you can use it pre-checkout to store something and it'll pass unmodified all the way through to the order post-checkout.