Custom fields

Finally coming around to adding content to my site again and need custom fields. I created a topic about this a long time ago (over 3 years) and its very likely not the proper way to do it anymore so i figured i'll start over.

I need a custom text field (lets call it for the sake of help 'fieldname1'). So i went to custom fields and created a custom textfield called "fieldname1" with the following properties

Label: fieldname1
Table: product
Field type: text
Mandatory: yes
Category: NL (dual lingual site so i have 2 root categories NL and EN, this particular field is for NL only)
activated: yes
display:
front-end: yes
back-end form: yes

The field should display on articles, but only when i choose to select to display it. The problem is, the option to display the field yes/no is not showing up on the backend when creating an article. So i'm obviously missing something

I'm talking about this

www.hikashop.com/forum/2-general-talk-ab...tom-field.html#18511

nicolas wrote: You need TWO custom fields.
one of the table product and of the type radio with two values, yes and no. So that you can select if the product needs the custom item field or not.
one of the table item and of the type text. So that you can display the input box on the product page.

i didn't say anything about a value not being shown, i said the field wasn't being displayed.

regarding the "disabled category" (you mean an unpublished one?) & categories listing i don't fully understand. Could you give me a step-by-step procedure (where and what) of what i need to do to get it working.

All i need is that input text field to show up on products of my choice. If it's in the documentation to do what then please by all means point me in the right direction. I can also give an su login so you can set it up and I can then look how is done to do it myself in the future.

ps: nocturnal bird too are ya ? always up late like me

would be nice if that functionality could get added though, not just limited to the "item" field. would save alot of trouble i imagine. No extra unpublished categories.

i can imagine it working very easily. Create custom text field and link it to article, then when clicking "add article" someowhere on that page would be for example a dropdown list with all the custom fields linked to the "article" display. All one would have to do was then select the field they wanted to display and click "display field" or something and it would get added to that article and displayed on the front end. i can knock up an image if you want to explain more clearly


2) it's not a custom item field, its a custom TEXT field that needs to show on an article. where the user can enter text which then gets transmitted along the order. Don't know how i can explain myself better. I did mail SU login details per another topic. Feel free to set it up so i can take a look at it afterwards.

kk i'l try it. But backend access was given along a link for that messed up template layout thing

Ok, field is displaying, but the field data (whether its the default value or own entered value) is not being transmitted .

Not transmitted during checkout process
Not transmitted alongside the order email
Not showing up on the backend order overview nor on the "add article" page.

So we're halfway there, the field is being displayed but that's it. The data isn't being sent.

current field properties

Table: item
Columname: fieldname
Label: fieldname
field type: text
Required: yes
front-end: yes
back-end form: yes
back-end list: no
published: yes
core: no

Could it be related to the following? As soon is i added that custom field to the category the button on the product changed from "add to cart" to "choose options" and that there are no options? Just a custom field

bumpetiebump. Kind of a big issue if the entered text in the field does not get transmitted

Hi,

Do you edited any views ?
The fields must be transmitted, it i working on our end

If you try:

<?php 
foreach($data->cart->products as $item) {
  $product = $productClass->products[$item->product_id];
  echo $product->CUSTOMFIELD_NAME;
}
?>

nope, didn't edit anything. As i said it was a fresh install of everything. Should the "back-end list" option be enabled? Swapping to default template "protostar" didnt solve it either

which mail do i edit? Order creation notification? html part? text part? Preview part?

i edited html part in that mail template but still didn't work. field data is not being transmitted. Not to the checkout page, not in the final order created email, not on the backend. So i removed the modifications again

Feel free to login on the backend. Nicolas has the superuser details

**EDIT**: Nevermind i don't know what was wrong but i scrapped the custom field and recreated it and changed the label. The field label was in 2 words "field name". Picked a different name with 1 word and this time it worked. Don't know if that's the reason but field data is being transmitted now.