direct link to an order number

[AndyUK]

Anyone worked out if you can call a url to bring up an order number - as you would in the search orders box.

we have had a royal mail tracking software application written, that allows us to scan out all orders and the relevant royal mail tracking and 1st / 2nd class service details - this means if a customer rings up and asks where their order is we enter the order number into the app and it shows us where in the network the order is.

i want to be able to also pull up the order number for the tracking app - but need the url - obviously we will need to be logged in as admin, or asked to log in. i can insert the order number into a url string.. e.g. www.bluepark.co.uk/admin/order-processor.php?search=XXXXXX

any ideas?

cheers


Andy

[Dave]

Hi Andy,

I am sure with a little help from Rich this will be possible. Bluepark gives each order it's own unique order reference which we don't see apart from in the url

http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/admin/order-processor.php?object=2950

Have tried the above on one of our sites and each time we changed the object number it displayed a different order.

So perhaps you could get Rich to use the system generated unique reference as your order number? Or perhaps there is already a command where you replace object with orderid?

Not much help I know but Rich is probably the only person who can make sense of this one way or another.

[Rich]

The "object=#" in the URL is the database reference of the order.

Remember, you have a modifier which you can apply to order numbers, i.e. orders start from 1000. So if it's order 1001, it will probably read "object=1".