[solved]order custom field to simulate shipment

Hi,

For the shipment the client wants to show three states:

• Normal
• Urgent
• Self Pickup (give comment on which date and hour in a textarea field

When the last one is chosen "Self Pickup" a text area field should be displayed where the customer can tell when he'd like to pickup his order.

Since we are not going to use prices for the shipment, I thought I would use a custom field.

I made two custom fields:
First one of the type RADIO called "ShipmentMethods" and has the tree values: Normal, Urgent and Self Pickup.
A second field "CommentShipment"of the type TEXTARE and used "Display limited to" "ShipmentMethods" and last value "Self Pickup".

The reasons we do it this way are because:

1. we are not mandatory to use weight in products since we don't use it anyway. Otherwise the shipment plugin isn't shown
2. we can add a comment field for additional info about the self pickup date and time

Everything seems to be working but I have two questions

1) Is this a good approach? Do you think I have to watch out for something or any other advice?


EDIT: I answered question 2 myself but any remarks are welcome!
2) Is it possible to display the chosen values in from both custom fields in the STATUS?
Because I like the way it's says

You chose the shipping method: Self Pickup

I know I could just drag FIELDS in the checkout workflow but I'd rather show a read only text just like the hika shipment plugin.



Thanks

Hi,

The more I use HikaShop, the more I like it

For question 2 I found how to do it.
I had to go to Display -> Views and the open checkout / status.php
There I added the following code:
This might be interesting for anyone who wants to add their own custom field in a read-only mode in the status.

So I guess I'm just wondering about question 1 if it has any disadvantage that you can think of by using a custom shipment field like I did.

Thanks.

Hi,

That's indeed a good approach for your use case. And the code you used is the way to go.
I would have done the same.