Checkout Workflow

Hi,

In the checkout workflow steps are separated by a comma, views by an underscore. The default workflow has only two steps since there is only one comma. I invite you to read the checkout workflow documentation inf you would like to understand it a bit more:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/54.html#main

Shipping methods are only displayed if at least one of the products added to the cart has a weight. That's what says if a product is shippable or not. So if the "hypo spray" doesn't have a weight, the shipping address and the shipping methods selection won't be displayed.

Concerning custom address fields:
the fact that you don't see the value appear once you enter it is because we use a template to display the address. So if you create new fields, they won't be in the template and won't be displayed. You need to go to display->views and search for "address_template". You will be able to edit it in order to display the data the way you want.
Concerning the fact that the require doesn't work, would you be able to send us the url of your website so that we can look at that ?

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FTP access might be useful if there is indeed a bug that needs to be fixed. We will look at it tomorrow, after a good night of sleep

The "No shipping method found." message is displayed when you didn't create any shipping methods or when you didn't publish them. You should go to System->shipping methods, click on the manual shipping method and make sure you published them.

The "confirm" view is just a logical view which checks that everything is filled for an order and then creates the order upon clicking next.
You could add to it the coupon, status and cart view (note that you can have a view several times in the workflow, so you can display the cart on the first step but also on the confirm step).
The "end" view should always be on the last step alone and the "confirm" view should be on the step right before.
Again, all that is explained in the checkout workflow documentation link :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/54.html#main

You can get rid of the shipping address by editing the address view of the checkout (display->views search for checkout), but you need to know a bit php for that.
Also that means that you won't be able to limit shipping to a zone in your shipping methods or they will be automatically discarded as the system won't find the shipping address.

Hi,

Concerning the custom field require, indeed, the custom message functionality doesn't work properly. I fixed it on our dev environment and it will be included in next release which is to be released soon. I was however unable to access your ftp to do the modification. You can correct that by changing the function checkFieldsForJS's definition in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/field.php near line 250 to :

function checkFieldsForJS(&$extraFields,&$requiredFields,&$validMessages){
		foreach($extraFields as $type => $oneType){
			foreach($oneType as $oneField){
				if(!empty($oneField->field_required)){
					$requiredFields[$type][] = $oneField->field_namekey;
					if(!empty($oneField->field_options['errormessage'])){
						$validMessages[$type][] = addslashes($this->trans($oneField->field_options['errormessage']));
					}else{
						$validMessages[$type][] = addslashes(JText::sprintf('FIELD_VALID',$this->trans($oneField->field_realname)));
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}