Custom fields by product in checkout

Okay, nicolas, here's a tough one!!

When users add a product into the shopping cart, I want to be able to give them 4 fields to enter in data, pertaining to that product, and submit with the order. To clarify, a user enters ProductA, ProductB and ProductC into the cart. I would like them to be able to enter, should they wish, information in four fields (FieldA, FieldB, FieldC, FieldD).

Is this possible? I can create custom product fields, but these are used for entry in the back-end. These fields would just be textboxes for my purposes. I cannot use the Characteristics, because this forces a drop-down, and I need free-entry textboxes.

Is this possible at all in the shop or checkout process?

If these fields could display right on the product page, like the Characteristics do, that would be the best!!

Man, nicolas, I have yet to ask a question you can't answer!

Thank you for the reference to the views settings for display of the fields. If I create a custom product field called, say, "Display Extra Fields", can I use the value of this field to determine, in the product view, whether or not to show the Item fields? The "Display Extra Fields" would most likely be a "Yes/No" or "0/1" field. I could just populate this field when I do a mass product upload, so it would not be difficult to maintain.

Thanks!!

WOW!!! Awesome! Nicolas - I must tell you that I am thoroughly impressed with this product. I wish I could write another review on the JED!!! Great, great job!

You're probably tired of hearing that!

I am editing the front-end view Product->Show. I have commented out the line:

if(!empty($this->itemFields)){

and replaced it with the following:

if($this->element->prod_display_fields==1){

with "prod_display_fields" being my custom Product field. The Item fields are still showing on the front end for every product. Cannot figure out what I am missing.

And this time I made sure I was working in the right template

I do not have the field "prod_display_fields" showing on the front end. Would that make a difference?

Weird - when I display the field on the front end, they are all showing as "1", even though the back-end shows them as set to "0". Let me play around with the custom field definition a bit...

nicolas,

I set up the custom Product field "prod_display_fields" as a single drop-down, with options of YES or NO. Initially I had it storing the value as 1 (YES) or 0 (NO). I have changed it to save the value simply as YES or NO. I also set the default to YES. I updated the field in the database to reflect this change (updated all 0s to NO and all 1s to YES).

When I view the product in the back end list, the field is set as it should be. When I open a product to edit it, the field is showing the default YES, even if the list shows NO. On the site's front-end, when displaying the field, it shows as YES for every product, even if the back-end product list shows NO.

Our posts crossed. See my last...

Perhaps this is a bug, I don't know, but here's what I have done and what I am seeing:

1) Deleted the original YES/No dropdown field I had created;
2) Created a new Product field called "show_fields", set to type TEXT, size 1. Set to display on front and back end;
3) Populated the field "show_fields" with a Y or N as appropriate;
4) Added the following code to the front-end Product->Show view:
if($this->element->show_fields == "Y") in place of if(!empty($this->itemFields))

The fields are showing on every product on the front end, regardless of the setting in the "show_fields" column. The weird thing is that, on the front end product page, the value of the field "show_fields" on EVERY product is displaying as a "Y". I know this should crazy, but I am attaching an image to show what I am seeing. I am confused!!

Here is a shot of the custom field config...

What is the product edition page? Sorry!!!