Magento 1.9.2 Custom order amount in dashboard

A module I am building which will create a custom order, and everything is ok until I found that the Grand Total was not showing up Last 5 orders in Dashboard.

dashboard

Google again, and I found that there is a property in Order Model must be set in sales_flat_order table. base_to_global_rate must set to 1.0 (I am not sure what the value meant, but 1.0 is the value that when place order normally)

Also, another problem is create custom order and I called setShippingMethod to ‘flatrate_flatrate’, in Order View it did not show up flatrate.

flatrate

Google around again, and I found that I must set Shipping Description in the order, and now it works!

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I have embed the Snippet from my code in Gist.

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