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FedEx Rate Finder from a website... FDXRateAvailableServicesRequest ... Dimensional Weight?

I finally got our account thrown into the "Development Pool" on the FedEx test server so I could start testing to implement live rate quotes on our website.

I am currently toying the FDXRateAvailableServicesRequest method. I don't see anything defined in the FDXRateAvailableServicesRequest.xsd file from FedEx to indicate a way to pass dimensional weight to FedEx. However, when I get the reply back there is a "DimWeightUsed" attribute and it is set to false. Which leads me to believe that it IS possible to use dimensional weight when requesting a rate quote.

Does anybody know how to implement rate quotes via dimensional weight for FedEx shipping? Am I using the wrong method?

The only possible attributes I can see in the FDXRateAvailableServicesRequest method is:

</WeightUnits>
</Weight>

Thanks in advance...

Steve Bink

I would say you need to speak with FedEx to find out. That is a proprietary bit of code they made, and if the information is not in their publicly available DKs, there must be a reason for it. My personal experiences with them (especially concerning online activities) have shown them to be VERY territorial.

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rocketTendon

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The word "dimensional" does not occur once in the pdf. They only talk about the </DimWeight> attribute and how it is a boolean indicating if DimWeight is being used.

lpenrod

DimWeightUsed does.

lpenrod

‘true’ or ‘1’ if the dimmed weight was used to derive freight charges.

rocketTendon

ASKER

Right... but that is no help... I want to know HOW to use dimensional weight... Hence my previous post..

"They only talk about the </DimWeight> attribute and how it is a boolean indicating if DimWeight is being used."

lpenrod

DimWeightUsed is a boolean value indicating that DimWeight (which is a decimal with a max length of 6.1) is being used.

rocketTendon

ASKER

You are looking at the reply that comes back... not how to issue a request. Which is what I am after.

lpenrod

Gotcha.

rocketTendon

ASKER

I figured it out...

There is a Dimensions attribute... when these are passed, dimensional weight is used.

<Dimensions>
<Units>IN</Units>
<Length>15</Length>
<Width>24</Width>
<Height>46</Height>
</Dimensions>

rocketTendon

ASKER

The answer was found in http://www.fedex.com/us/solutions/wis/pdf/xml_transguide.pdf?link=4 ... thanks for pointing me to the right document.