Kiala?

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3

I used the search on this and found a 2+year old topic? I was wondering if there has been any progress on developping this? If not please see the below.

If there isn't a dedicated kiala plugin i guess in the mean time i can add a manual shipping method for it. The "problem" is that the Kiala delivery method works with fixed pickup points specified by a point number. Is there any way that, when users are selecting this shipping method, 1 or more text fields appears under it when a text field label like "Enter kialapoint pickup number" and "Kiala point name" or something? I also would need to be able set a weight restriction to it.

Hi,

I don't know of any existing solution for Kiala.

You can create custom order fields but they will display regardless of the shipping method. So it would require custom code to display and process them only when needed.

Nicolas, can you remind/show me how to do that again? I don't mind for now it being shown regardless of the shipping method. As long as the customer has a place somewhere to enter the pickup point identifier.

Hi,

Creating custom fields for the checkout is quite easy. Go in the menu Display>Custom fields and click on the "new" button. There, select the table "order".
Also, check that you didn't remove the "fields" view from your "checkout workflow" in the HikaShop configuration.

Field operational though i think i spotted a bug. The field i've created is a text area. I'd like this to appear for the full width available of the form. Now as a test i've specified 100 for "columns", yet the width isn't any wider than probably 20-25 columns. Is there a fixed size.

Hi,

I guess the textarea width is restricted by your template ; not by HikaShop.

Regards,

wouldn't be the first time . In this case, unlikely. As the site is for the moment using the default joomla protostar template. I can provide login credentials via PM if you want.

Hi,

Yes, we'll need a link to the page in that case.
You can send it along with a link to this thread through our contact form:
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

done

Hi,

As expected, the width of the textarea is limited by your template CSS with the code: in the file shop.movi.be/templates/protostar/css/template.css

weird lol. Joomla templates setting a fixed width. I'll have to keep that in mind when a real custom template is designed, thanks

Hi Nicolas.
Because I am also in a desperate need of Kiala plugin, I am trying to create this field as you wrote , but I can't create the "order" table It is fixed by adress. Is there a way to fix this ? This is a part of the Favtheme "artis" template I bought especially for the easy hikashop demo.favthemes.com/artis/
Thank you for any answer !

Yuri

Hello Yuri,

Note that custom fields from the "Order" table are only available through the business version of Hikashop as it's said on our documentation :

Order custom fields: you will be able to personalize the information you can also gather from your customers when they order something on your store. But the difference with the previous type of custom field is that these fields appear on the checkout in the fields view. For example, You can ask them information about the delivery or the payment or a "comments to the shop" field. Then, you will find this information on the order details and/or the orders listing on the back end. This is only available in the business version of HikaShop.

hello,
the solution or the bypass I created is an extra field for the Kiala store that must be filled in by the registration. If people choose later on for Kiala, than I can see the needed information this way. And the shoppers can change it easyly. For this I also added some lines in the registration-bootstrap.php to open the" Kiala search shop" webpage.with a link that only appaers in the registration form.
kind regards,
Yuri