Locations documentation #2375
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Currently, this article describes how zones affect taxation and shipment setup for administrators. This article also provides an example of how a store might set up their zones.
mamhoff
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| ## States | ||
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| A state is any sub-region of a country, whether that is a province, district, or | ||
| territory. If the state you require is not recognized, you can add it directly |
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For some countries, dividing them up into sub-territories makes no sense. For those cases, we can determine that the states_required field on the country is set to false.
If we do that, then the subregions for that country are not chosen for addresses.
This makes sense for many European countries and any small country.
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I added a note about this. 👍
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benjaminwil
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| If a country or state you require is not recognized, you can add it directly | ||
| from the Solidus admin (**Settings -> Locations -> Countries**) or from your |
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You actually can't add states or countries from Settings -> Locations -> ... anymore. This needs to be updated.
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It is no longer possible to add custom countries or states from the Solidus admin. I also added a note about the `states_required` field on `Spree::Country` objects.
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I've created three short articles about locations in Solidus:
My goals are to:
This is part a larger project to improve Solidus's documentation. See this gist with the high-level table of contents. Where and how this documentation will exist is still up for discussion.