Need to add a text field to "Product" content type

By wolf_halton on 29 Jan 2008 at 20:51 UTC

This is working well and I am madly in love with it, however...

I need a new field in the product content type. This needs to be customer-entry, filtered html to allow them to tell me what custom lines they want engraved on the product.

I tried using the apparel product, but the content of this field is not like size (S, M, L, XL) as it is entirely arbitrary text. I thought I could add this in the paypal node, but that appears to be impossible.

I added a line on the default invoicing email about it, but I see a lot of support calls from customers in our future, if I can't solve this now.

Comments

cck

coltrane

he/him

commented 30 January 2008 at 00:54

Get the cck module, it comes with fields you can add to content types. You could add a text field to your product content type for this. See the cck documentation for details on how to use it.

Thanks! I will look at the

wolf_halton commented 30 January 2008 at 04:18

Thanks!
I will look at the cck module

not cck

dman commented 30 January 2008 at 04:52

CCK doesn't answer this problem, as it allows arbitrary text to be added by the site editor, but we need it to be added by a customer during purchase. They are not annotating the product description, they are actually annotating an instance of a product order in their cart.

I also needed this - just for an arbitrary 'additional information' feedback textarea I wanted to capture during checkout. I did this with some messy hacks to checkout hooks, but ideally I want this function added to each ordered item.
It's a good request.

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Concurrence

wolf_halton commented 30 January 2008 at 12:27

I have not seen how to use cck to add this field either. It did a nifty job of adding another managment-filled field to the product, but as you say, that was not the requirement.

Did your messy hacks work? If this is not hidden somewhere else in the module forest, I gotta do something. I have to add about 1000 products into the db, and I really would rather get it in place now. I don't really know how to add the hacks.

I guess I could remove CCK.

I was able to attach some

dman commented 30 January 2008 at 12:48

I was able to attach some user input to the 'purchase' (eg like delivery instructions) but not to the 'product' - like engraving instructions, so my mess isn't great for you.
Plus it was on a significantly older generation of the module.

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