Custom Fields at checkout for particular product..

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.0

Hi,

I am selling a number of products in the shop. However for one or two of those products I would like to gather some additional information from the user at time of checkout. Not for all products, only those two.

Is this possible? And if so how do I go about doing it? If you can point me at the necessary views etc. I have to change and provide some sample PHP code that would be great!!

--D

Hello,
A solution can be to use "Item" custom fields and restrict the displaying of these custom fields these two products by using the "category" restriction.

Hi Mohamed,

That looks promising, but I cannot get it to work.... (More than happy to PM you login details if that is easier?). Basically the newly added custom field does not appear in the fields step of the checkout when I have purchased a product in the category to which it is associated.

This is what I have done:

- Added custom field
- Added Custom fields to the check out process
- Purchased a product from the professional category

I expected to see the custom field displayed in the custom field step but it is not there? Any ideas?

--D

Hi,

If you look at the "table" setting of your custom field, you selected the table "product" when you created the field. In that case, the field will appear on the product edition page so that you can add extra data to the product in the backend. So that's not what you want.

What mohamed proposed is to select the table "item" and in that case, the field will actually be displayed on the product page of the frontend so that the customer can fill the field when adding the product to the cart.
Alternatively, if you want the field to display in the "fields" view of the checkout you need to select the table "order" when creating the custom field. The disadvantage of that type of custom fields is that you'll be able to only have one data in the order even if the customer purchase ten times the product, while withe custom fields of the table "item", your customer will be able to enter a different data for the custom field for each product he adds to the cart.

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the detailed response. I have been able to add what I needed by using the "item" table as the basis for what I need.

--D