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Hi Rui.

How do you update the order state? Directly on DB or using the order instance that is passed to the template extender?

The template extender is to extend the template - not to do other stuff. You could do what you do in your extender and add your own custom template tag to the template instance and render that instead - in that way you have complete control over the text.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

For this what I really need is a way to execute the custom development for each time the user goes to the order history page, because the orders that are updated can be the ones generated for the page in the customer center or other not visible(rendered). The custom development reads the order with the API (using a custom SQL query) and updates the orders using the API.

Thanks,

Rui Silva

Hi Rui

That is the problem - you load another set of orders than what you display.

1. Dynamicweb loads the orders to display in the customer center
2. It starts rendering them
3. Creates a new instance of the template extender
4. In your custom extender, you query another instance of the potentially same order, and make your change
5. The order(s) queried in 1 is still the one being rendered - it was loaded from the DB before you made your change
6. You cannot see what was changed in your template.

So you need to fix this.