Incremental Custom Field

This has been very confusing for me...

I want to add a custom field, like a variant almost, to particular products in my store. I sell custom clothing and want my customers to be able to add their name to sweatshirts etc.

I have come to realize that it doesn't look possible to do this even though I upgraded to the essential version. At the very least I want this to be available at the checkout stage. The only problem is, every time I try to add this custom field to the checkout page it lets me choose from the following tables: Address, User, Product or Category. I can't figure out how to use the Product or Category tables and I don't want to use the Address or User table because I want to set up my store to bypass the registration page. I am wondering why the "Order" table isn't available in the essential package because that would be a perfect location for me to put the custom field.

Also, when I select "No Registration" from the Configuration>Checkout page it does absolutely nothing and still requires the users to register...

Please give me some advice, it would be much appreciated!

So if I purchase the business edition I will be able to have a custom field on each individual product if I want it to be there?

Because I only want the option for the customer to enter their name available on some of the products not all of them. Is this possible with the business edition?

OK but my store is categorized by cities, ie: each hometown in the surrounding area has a category for their custom school apparel. What if I only want it to show up on certain items in each category? For instance if I want them to be able to add their name to a sweatshirt but not sweatpants and they're in the same category.

Ok, I upgraded to the business edition and I am still having issues...
This is what I have done so far:
-upgraded to business edition.
-created the following categories: (3" Name on front, 8" number on back, Direct embroidery on hood, 3" number on front) These are the different labels that I want to have for my custom fields, so I just named the categories the same because it makes it easier.
-Then I unpublished these categories and added them as second categories to the desired products.
-I went to Display>Custom fields and created a new field. For table I selected Item and for field type I selected Text. I did this for all four custom fields I want available and I published all of them. I added them to their corresponding categories and it still is not showing up on the front end. I even have it enabled to show up on the front end.

PLEASE HELP!

I'm not sure I know what you mean by the category restriction but here are some screenshots.

Somehow it just started working I'm not sure what I did but I appreciate your help!

Hi -

I am trying to take this in with yet having the business edition to experiment with.

If I understand correctly, once I have the business edition I will be able to create a field or fields that would allow me to enter information about a product (size - color - cost) in the back end and have it show up on the product details in the front end. Customer checks the box the desired size/color combination, completes the purchase and the specific size, color and cost will carry over to the cart and order details?

Functions:
1. Same field can be used multiple times on a given product to show each size and color combination available; and price.
2. The field would be an input box so as to add product information on the fly and NOT have to create a library with an infinite number of combinations.
3. The fields can be added or deleted as the inventory changes

Sorry if not very clear....but I would appreciate any help or guidance.

I am trying to do the same thing, but the link above to creating custom fields goes to a dead end.

I have the business version, and am doing what is said above. The text fields are not editable on the front end, and the layout is off too, but that's a separate issue.

Thanks for the follow-up, as suggested, the error was mine, and I have fixed it so it is working now.

Hi!

I've trying to reach that trick you mentioned in this thread.

Using a "main" category where the item should be, and an additional hidden category where the custom item field is set to be shown.
It's working OK in item view (show), but in category listing it just shows those custom fields that are set to the "main" category. The additional/hidden category's custom field is not shown there, but I should really need it.

Any ideas how to fix that or what am I doing wrong?

pepecortez wrote: Hi!

I've trying to reach that trick you mentioned in this thread.

Using a "main" category where the item should be, and an additional hidden category where the custom item field is set to be shown.
It's working OK in item view (show), but in category listing it just shows those custom fields that are set to the "main" category. The additional/hidden category's custom field is not shown there, but I should really need it.

Any ideas how to fix that or what am I doing wrong?

Anyone please? A small code hint / tip where should I search for?

nicolas wrote: Hi,

I don't see why it wouldn't work on the listing. I did a test and it worked for us. I also looked at the code and it uses all the categories of each product regardless of whether the category is published or not.
Maybe you have an old version of HikaShop with a bug on that ?
Maybe you have some override on the file "add_to_cart_listing" view file from an old version which prevents you from seeing the changes we made in recent versions of HikaShop ?
That's the two things I can think of here.

I'm using the newest HikaShop... I had a template override, but if change template to another with no component overrides, it also works the same.

Could I send you a PM with site access to check it please?