States - Zones

[yesudo]

When I go in to add a state; there is a zone dropdown list - which is empty. I cannot see where in admin I can add zones to this list. Can anyone advise?

Joomla 1.5.23
VM 2.0.2

Thanks.

[John2400]

Yes a bit tricky to  find _

* go back to the country you want to add a state to.

Configuration>>country

Find the country you want to add a state to.

Click on that country >> but only click on the word [States]  and you will then get a blank page.

In the top left you will see a the wording [states of the country you selected]

* now add away all you like.

If this is correct please mark your post as solved

make sure you publish the states and the country.

[Imron]

States do NOT populate in the drop down when attempting to edit the billing or shipping address from the front end.  Is there a fix for this issue?

VM 2.0.6 Joomla 2.5

[earthrat]

I have the same issue. Not sure what was ever found out about this zone thing but I followed John2400's instructions but that is just to add states it has no information on the Zone drop down for that state. I assume I must create a zone for the state in order for it to show up when a customer registers? Currently if a user tries to register they have to select a state and in my case there is only one but the drop down is blank even though that state is published and other that it does not belong to a zone(not sure what that would be?) it does not work.

Did anyone find a solution to this yet?

[John2400]

earthrat,

Hi yep I'm not sure what a zone is a we do not have then in my country.

There are only countries and states and zip codes - I presume that someone is building an extension for shipping taht will help Canada, Uk and where ever you are from.

It appears that some countries use a non linear progressive system of zip codes. Thus you need shipping to match a area - for a while you might have to code your own (using present zip code system) or have a flat rate?

[gg1]

I am also looking to add zones to the drop down menu that appears within the state field, but wonder if it is intended for a purpose other than creating regions within a state.

I go to  configuration > countries, then click on the [states] link to open the list of states (thanks for the tip John2400).

When I open an individual USA state page, there appears to be a drop down menu labeled zones. 

I need to set tax by regions in my state by the name of the zone (which doesn't align with zip codes), and I think this feature would be great for that but cannot figure out how to assign a value/name to the zones.

If that's not what zones are for, would I be able to add my own customized fields within a state another way?

Thanks in advance for any assistance/info you can offer!

Joomla v2.5.2
Virtuemart 2.0.6

[John2400]

US?

Here is the extension   -  http://extensions.virtuemart.net/

[gg1]

Thanks for the reply, but I don't see what would allow me to create named regions within a state there. 

Our sales tax goes by county  (Country>State>County, for example USA--NY--County Name), and we've got 60 counties each with their own tax rate.  County lines are not defined the same way as zip codes, so I need to create entries that include county names that NY buyers must choose from when setting up the ship-to address.

[websnare]

I am not able to add states when checking out in the cart.. I pick United States from Country Select List.. and then States select list never populates.
I did manage to goto Countries - [states] // and it shows all the United States States in a list with 0 for zone. Not sure if this is a needed parameter?

Is anyone else having an issue with the states drop down list?

[websnare]

Still unable to get states to show up during checkout.. I have toyed around with the states in the administrator there seems to be a bunch of bugs here..

1 - Current Zone - will not propogate ?? how do I add a zone number to this?
2- State (3) code shows a 2 letter abbreviation for the state.(seems this shoudl be called state 2)
3- State (2) cdoe shows a 3 letter abbreviation for the state (seems that this should be called State 3)

I can not get the states list in the cart or cart registration fields to show any state names? 
I can not get the States list in the States of country United States to allow for me to change ZONES?

Please help me.. im a nice person

[websnare]

Ok, figured out this issue, it had to do with my template.. I was using a superfish menu using an old Jquery  - i turned off this menu type and I got my states list.
WOOHOO..  yes