additional product information

Hi Nic,

I have several products that require additional information from the customer, specifically their Spouse's Name.

I was going to add this as an additional field to the checkout but I realise that not all products require this information, only some.

What is the best way to capture this additional information for these products?

Thanks,

Mat

Hi,

You can create custom fields of the table "item" via the menu Display->Custom fields. They will be displayed on the product pages and you will be able to restrict them to only some categories of products.
That is only possible in the Business edition.

I am working on this right now and not getting anywhere.

I have the business edition.

I went to item and create a custom field called test.
I checked the front end and back end form and back end listing options (not sure what they do)
and it is published.

Now how do I put it on a product?

OK it showed up and now I understand it is not per product but per category. Is that correct? I can't show these fields per product but only per category?

OK how can I add a value to the custom field through ajax?
So when I add a product via url can i set the custom fields and characteristics some how?

It appears that the field I create at the item level gets added to the hikashop_cart_product

Would it be hard for you to modify the code to allow these custom fields to be changed via ajax?

or for me to change it in the code where would I look?

domain.com/index.php?option=com_hikashop...oduct_id=11&test=aaa

The custom fields "front end" option should be turned on to be displayed on the product page.

You can indeed only assign the custom fields to categories. However, you can always create a dummy category that you would leave unpublished and add that category to one product and to your field so that the field would be displayed only for that product.

You can add values for custom fields in the add to cart URL as explained there:
www.hikashop.com/support/forum/2-general...s.html?lang=en#16220

For the characteristics, you need to give the id of the variant instead of the id of the product in the URL.

Great, Thank you!!!!

What does the core option do?

It's just an indicator of whether the field is a field provided by default in HikaShop or not. Core fields cannot be deleted as the system might rely on them in some places.