How to add customised form fields to the attributes form

[be.free]

Does anyone know if its possible to add customised text strings to the attributes form in a product listing (large product view).

I have created a checkbox in a new product attribute but this checkbox also has two text string fields I need to insert that will define the checkbox subject.

i.e.

checkbox  = ticked  |  text string [name]  |  text string [number]

Thanks

Wayne

[Liam Dilley]

Hey Wayne.

Best question is - what are you trying to achieve. What are you trying to do Wayne?

Can hep give a good sollution, or lead you to BC features you may not be aware of etc.

Let us know what your trying to do and why and us forum folk will see what we can do for ya

[be.free]

Thanks Liam. Effectively I have defined a number of attributes for the product but the attributes allow for radio, checkbox and dropdown only. I am wanting to insert some text string fields as well to capture customisations defined by the customer. The two sets of text strings are linked to two of the attributes which have additional pricing respectively (see this page for reference: http://www.sendunitedfc.co.uk/merchandise-adult.htm and here: http://www.sendunitedfc.co.uk/adults/classic-t-shirt).

Ideally it would be good if we could include the text strings as part of the basket content and thus have it appear on the order / invoice etc. The only way I can see to do this would be to insert a webapp or custom CRM form item. However in the case of a webapp there would be no direct record of the data stored in the customer record, and in the case of custom CRM form item/s I'm not sure how we would embed the form item on the layout (without having to have the mandotory name and email fields in place or having the customer already signed in which is not very user-friendly).

Any thoughts you could offer would be really appreciated.

[Liam Dilley · Accepted solution]

What you want to use is the capture details field.

When you tick that on a product and have that tag in the layout it will render a text area.

You can use this to captcha details which come through the order into the system.

If you want to have multiple fields for different things you can create those in the product layout, CSS hide the data captcha area text area and populate that with javascript based on the fields you create.

You can also add new fields to your web form for the registration buy form as its functionality is still just a custom web form. So you can add to that in the admin, update the registration buy layout with the form in it to include those. You can create those to be custom CRM fields as well if you want to

[be.free]

Liam, that's spot on thanks. I searched the forums and also found a direct instruction from Mario on usage of this ...I paste here for others that may find this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-1872

Once again, thanks - you're a legend!