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Help needed understanding "ZONES"


JulesInFrance

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I was wondering what ZONES are.

I understand the concept of Countries but then it gets messy; there's a tab under Countries/Zones called Zones but this merely shows a list of administrative areas (US = States, Canada = Provinces, France = Departments, UK = Counties, etc); are these "(Z/z)ones"?

Certainly if I want to add a Z/zone I need to select a country first, suggesting that Z/zones are administrative sub-units of countries - but that's a supposition.

However when I go to, say, Admin => Modules => Shipping Methods => By Weight I'm faced with Module Settings, Zone # and Z/zones ...

Zone # are groups of Countries (as identified by their ISO codes); might they better be called Areas to disambiguate them?

Then there's Z/zones; there are two tabs for Z/zones, "Allowed", and "Disallowed" but both provide functionality to include Countries. So, is a Z/zone now a Country?

And if a Country in excluded from both Allowed and Disallowed does it allowed to disallowed.

What is the current understanding on this topic?

With thanks

Jules

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Disallowed was added to make it easy to disable just a few countries/zones. We needed to disable Italy, because customs there prohibits what we sell. Without the Disallow tab we would have had to Enable each other country individually to leave off Italy.

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I received a reply from the developer on this.

If both tabs have null values then all Countries are allowed.

If Allowed has >1 selected then only the allowed countries are allowed.

If Disallowed has >1 selected then only the disallowed countries are disallowed.

Prioritisation is unclear (ie what happens if a country is both allowed and disallowed at the same time).

For some modules, like shipping-by-weight, the zones function is unclear. So, if you select a country by ISO Code yet that country is disallowed then the function of the specific module (shipping by weight) should over-ride the functionality of the generic module (counties/zone).

It's still a bugger's muddle though.

e & o e

Jules

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The developer's position on Zones in CubeCart Admin is "Zone term depends on area used. Zone as county in Countries/Zones used is not as the same as Allowed Zone, Disabled Zone either Zone in shipping area used."

So, a bit like "glory" in Wonderland:

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean  neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

;-))

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