I want to add a field in all my products

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I want to add a field in all my products with regard to a 'delivery date'. I have attached a screen grab of what i want. i will need 3 different similar messages. i will need to have a particular message for different product items.

please can i be given guidance to do this. Struggling with the documentation.

Hi Jerome

The information does not need to be selected by the client. it is just a notice of 'expected time to take to delivery' which is listed as part of the product information.

I have created a product custom field but for reasons not apparent to me they are not visible on any selected products?

I have added screen shots of the custom field created.

Hi,

Your second screenshot is cut off too soon, so one can't see what you entered in the text area, if anything at all. If the field (= in this case its text area) is empty, nothing will be displayed.
Probably you want to enter as "Label" of the field something like "Delivery time" (after all it is the label, not the field content), and enter the field content "Usually dispatched in 3 - 7 working days" into the text area. It should be displayed then, if your restrictions for products/categories/user groups are set correctly (can also not be seen in your screenshot).


A different approach would be to not use text area, but just one field of type "Single dropdown" as Jerome already told you, then entering multiple values (including an "empty" one), so that for each product you can simply select one of multiple "pre-configured" delivery times, or leave it empty for products where you do not want to show any delivery time... because typically one product has only one delivery time.
This approach with "Single dropdown" and an empty value would also make the field restrictions for products or categories unnecessary, because you'd make the selection in the products themselves.

See the links Jerome gave you for more details in the documentation.

Hi

I have attached a full screen grab.

Ok, and now it's also obvious from the preview in the bottom right corner that this field has only a label but no content and, hence, will not be displayed ever.

Why don't you scrap and delete this text area custom field completely and use a single dropdown instead - as advised by Jerome in his first response as well in mine here above?

Thanks guys - it works now.