Custom field display

Hi!

I don't get a custom field (product, radiobutton, 2 values) displayed on the product page.

All I get is "Specifikations" but not more.

Source code:

<div id="hikashop_product_contact_main" class="hikashop_product_contact_main">
</div>
<div id="hikashop_product_custom_info_main" class="hikashop_product_custom_info_main">
<h4>Specifications</h4>
<table width="100%">
</table>
</div>
<span id="hikashop_product_id_main" class="hikashop_product_id_main">
<input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="78" />
</span>
</div>


What's wrong?

Hi,

You need to create a custom field of the table "item" not "product". Product ones will display on the product edition page, not on the product page.

Thank you very much.

I got it!

But what is the purpose of the custom field product on product edit?

To add information to products. For example, if you sell books, you might want a field to enter the ISBN. If you sell computers you might want a lot of fields for all the specifications of the computers (RAM, CPU, screen, HDD, etc). Then, you can use those fields for search, or product comparison, so they are actually quite useful.

I'm sorry, maybe blind.

I don't understand the purpose.

As I understood, those fields are only displayed in the admin of Hikashop in the editing page.

Where can I search for values of the custom fields. ISBN for example?

Hi there,

Actually you can display the a "product" custom field on the front page.
The main difference is that this custom field cannot be edited by customers, only administrators can change it.

ok!



and how to display the custom field (product) on the frontend?

If you want to search with the ISBN, if you use the joomla search module, you can configure the hikashop products search plugin to use that new field in the search.

The field will be displayed automatically on the product page once you enter something in it in your products.

Now it works!

The problem was, that first I created a custom field with a radiobutton, which wasn't displayed on the frontend though there was selected one option in the product editing.

Later I created a second custom product field (text) and suddenly both custom fields appeared in the frontend and naturally searching worked.

So that was the reason, why I couldn't follow you.

Thank you very much!