I'm trying to add a custom order status to my magento install. I've found several tutorials detailing how to do this
and they all speak of editing app/code/core/Mage/Sales/etc/config.xml
But, when I look at that file, it contains the statement:
@depraceted after 1.4.2, statuses are saved into sales_order_status table
I'm unsure how to add a new status to the DB.
It looks as if all I need to do is insert a new row into sales_order_status with my status's code and frontend label, then associate that status to a state by adding a row to sales_order_status_state with the status's code and the code of all the states I wan't the status to be available for.
But I'm a little hazy on the state/status relationship, and I've been burned in the past by using raw SQL with a magento installation. So, I'm wondering if anyone else has added custom status in 1.5, and how they did it.
Since Magento 1.5 custom order statuses can be configured via the backend. Navigate to System -> Order Statuses and you can create and edit order statuses and codes.