How to collect information when serial is consumed

Hi,

When you consume a serial, you can send some data which would be store in the serial "extra data".
If you want the fields be required, the best is to have a consume plugin which will refuse the serial to be consume if the extra data field is empty.

Some of the HikaSerial plugins already do things like that, like the "point consumer" plugin which refuse the consumption of a serial which could alter the "points" value that the "point generator" store in the extra data.
In your case, the filtering is the opposite but the way to add the feature is the same.

After that, to add the input in the consume page, the best is to use some view override. So the fields will be display in the consume menu and consume module.

Let me know if you need more details about a specific point.

Regards,

Hi,

The easier is to use the trigger "onBeforeSerialConsume", something like that

public function onBeforeSerialConsume(&$serial, $user_id, &$do, &$extra_data) {
	// We check the required extra data
	if(empty($extra_data) || empty($extra_data['required_value'])) {
		// abort the consumption
		$do = false;
		$app = JFactory::getApplication();
		$app->enqueueMessage('message to indicate that the field is missing');
	}
}

Thanks

(I just realized that there was a little mistake in my code so I edited my previous message to fix it).

Hi,

Would it be possible to have more details about how you set the extra data fields in your form ?

In our documentation (which would require some improvements), there is a little part which give information about the serial extra data during the consumption :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...onsume-features.html

The webservice is compatible with html POST request.
So you can make a post request to the url:
index.php?option=com_hikaserial&ctrl=serial&task=consume
And give the rest of the parameters by POST ( hikaserial[serial_data] / hikaserial[format] / hikaserial[serial_extra_data][] )

<input type="text" value="" name="hikaserial[serial_extra_data][my_extra_data_field]" />