Custom field in email notification

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Hi,

I'm only new to PHP and could use some help with adding custom fields to notification emails.

I'm trying to add a field from the item table to a notification email and am using the code

{VAR:item.org_member}

Hi Nicolas

Fantastic, of course! I can only call those tags between the START:Product_line and END:Product_line. I was trying to display a couple of the item fields in other sections. I now understand that I need to include additional START & END Product line tags to make this work.

This has been a great help.

Thank you

Rich

Another quick question.

If I want to add the Product Category to the email. What's the tag I need to use, and is there anything additional to the preload version I need to add.

Is there a list of tags etc that I can for future reference?

Thanks for you time

Rich

Any thoughts you can share on this would be welcome. Thanks

Hi, I've managed to work out the issues above. Thank you for your help.

I have another issue with custom fields in the emails that I can't seem to work out.

I've created text custom fields in the table 'product' and given them a default value, they're published, display is set to all, they're assigned to the correct categories, and I can see the preview. When I look at the categories they're assigned to, I can see them listed at the bottom.

I am trying to use them in an email to create personalised text for each product as per the code below:

<h2 style="color:#000000 !important; font-size:14px; font-weight:normal; font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;">{TXT:HI_CUSTOMER}<!--{START:PRODUCT_LINE}--> {LINEVAR:item.org_member}   </h2></p>
                <p style="border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom:3px;text-align:left;color:#1c8faf !important;font-size:12px;">Thank you for {LINEVAR:product.invfragment01a} the 'our business'.  {LINEVAR:product.invfragment02a}</p>
                <p style="border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom:3px;text-align:left;color:#1c8faf !important;font-size:12px;">As a peak body, our business depends on its broad and diverse membership base to help us fight for a better deal. You are our eyes and ears out there in the market and we encourage you to give us your feedback on that affect .</p>

what mean {LINEVAR ? where does it come from ?
Is it a reserved word ( joomla , hikashop ,dev ) ?
Is there anothers reserved words ?


regard's

That makes a lot of sense, thanks Jerome.

Is there an easy way to include the product custom field in the front-end so it is included in the database? As I did for Item custom_field and then I can hide it with CSS.

Alternatively, I could use the item.custom_field tags to build the list rather than the LINEVAR:PRODUCT_NAME but is there a tag for the Label on the field so I can include those as well. Something like item.'custom_field'_label?

Cheers

Rich

Even this post give some information about those TAG . Is there official documentation web page ?

• what handle this tag ?
• howto use them ?
• The context they can be use/call ?
• The syntax ( wel write , and well functionnal ) and string available
• a hierarchy to follow beetween those tags

I did finally work this out.

The reason I wanted to switch from the Item table to the Product table is because every custom item field is being generated into the email through the tag LINEVAR:PRODUCT_NAME. I didn't want the end user to see those fields as they are just small bits of text to personalise the email based on the product & category that is purchased. This is also why I couldn't just type the Label next to the field, because different item fields are assigned by category and the email couldn't have empty or superfluous labels that related to a different category.

I did get them working using the table 'Product'. Custom fields in the table 'Product' should appear in the front end under tab called Characteristics. I wasn't seeing those. Firstly, I had to create all of the custom fields I needed using the table product, in my case read-only text with a default value. Then I had to go into each product and change the value of 'Layout on Product page' to Default and then save the product again. Even products that had the 'Layout on Product page' as Default needed to be re-saved before the characteristics would appear in the front-end. Then I could simply hide them in the front-end using their unique selector with CSS. And then I could add them to the email using the tag LINEVAR:product.custom_field_name to customise the text in the email.

Anyway, thanks for your help and time.

Rich

Hi,
I also need to add one specific custom field to the email notification.
I can see the code mentioned above by Nicolas, but unfortunately the fields are not showing up in the email. This is ok as I don't need all the fields. Just one specific one.

I tried adding {LINEVAR:uom} which is the column name of my custom field, between <!--{START:PRODUCT_LINE}--> and <!--{END:PRODUCT_LINE}--> but no result

What am I missing?

Thanks

Never mind, I figured out.
I just needed to ad product.uom instead of item.uom

thanks

Hello,
I have created two custom fields and assigned a label to it, in the value. They are inside additional information in the order.

Hello Nicolas and thanks for yor aswer.

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