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Topic: Custom Product Fields

Posted By: mainefitness
Subject: Custom Product Fields
Date Posted: 21-March-2008 at 12:39pm

I want to add a checkbox input for when I enter products. I need to have an image displayed with particular products, and thought the easiest way to do that is to check a box when it needs to be shown. What's the easiest way to do this?

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-March-2008 at 4:12pm

Hi, Can you please clarify what you need. Do you mean a checkbox in the admin panels for creating a product?
If so, I suspect the easiest way will be to just add an image to those products that you wish to be displayed with an image and suppress the default image from being displayed in the stores customer facing pages.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 21-March-2008 at 6:05pm

There are roughly half a dozen pages that you will need to edit. As you add, edit or clone a product, observe the page names that you interact with.

There will be an Add form, an Edit form, and the pages that perform the database write. You may also want to revise the "global changes" page.

So you add the new column to your database, be that MS-Access or MSSQL, then reflect those changes against the pages that maintain the database.

For someone accustomed to editing this series of pages, two to three hours is a reasonable expectation.

Once you have introduced support for the new flag, you then need to edit the subject pages on the public side of the site, query the status of the flag, then display the required image.

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