Shipping provider Display name - Change through API

This brings all kinds of concerns and questions.

• What about the people not in the same time zone as your physical store/shipping location?
• What about changing it back?
• Would you create a scheduled task to do this work or every time a page loads?
• Why not have a bullet point on the page that states your shipping policy/timeframe vs. changing it all the time?

Ya, that all came to me after I submitted the question. I didn't realize that there were different delivery times throughout the country. Naive! Anyway, so now what is being bandied about is appending it to the label in the shippingSelector.

The shopping cart is now based off of transformations, so why not create a custom method to put in your transformation that determines based on time of day, could even be users time of day, and display the text below the shipping selector. The custom transformation method could be based on what the user has selected in the shipping selector.

Hello Matt
You can create a custom form control based on ShippingSelector.ascx.cs and override this method

protected override DataSet OnAfterRetrieveData(DataSet ds)

After calling a base method you can modify resulting DataSet like this:

protected override DataSet OnAfterRetrieveData(DataSet ds)
{
    if ((ds == null) || (ShoppingCart == null))
    {
        return ds;
    }

    DataSet result = base.OnAfterRetrieveData(ds);
    var shippingOptions = result.Tables[0].Select();

    foreach (DataRow optionRow in shippingOptions2)
        {
            int optionID = ValidationHelper.GetInteger(optionRow["ShippingOptionID"], 0);
            ShippingOptionInfo option = ShippingOptionInfoProvider.GetShippingOptionInfo(optionID);

            // Here comes a condition
            if ((option != null) && "codeNameOfYourShippingOption".Equals(option.ShippingOptionName))  
            {
                string value = ValidationHelper.GetString(optionRow[0], string.Empty);
                value += " YourLabel"; // Here comes the label
                optionRow["ShippingOptionDisplayName"] = value;
            }
        }

    return result;
}

Best regards
Peter Gren

What I ended up doing was to load the ShoppingCartCustomData with ALL the transit time information for each shipping method on the first call to the CustomShippingOptionInfoProvider (and not subsequent calls.) Then in the ShippingSelector I modified the OnListItemCreated method to add the estimated shipping time to the item text. At some point in the future I will come back and re-write that control as a Radio list so I can show all the shipping methods to the customer all at once.

@BRENDEN KEHREN - I haven't seen or heard of documentation on the the shipping methods, or the cart as a transformation, so if you could point me to that documentation I would appreciate it.

Thanks to everyone for all your help, Matt