Additional Fields In The Checkout?

[ajo]

I’m trying to add additional fields to the checkout form – the purpose of which is security questions such as: previous address, bank and employment details. However I’m stumped! Does anyone have any ideas?

[Menar]

Hi there,

I believe the optimal way in acheiving this will be to use extra promp field that are free to use from Design|Text.

If you goto Design|Text|Wesite(cont), then into the 'Invoice Address' tab, you can use the unused prompts. You can change the name of the prompts as well as making them a required filed.

Hope this helps

[ajo]

Thanks for your reply Menar. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough spare fields. Is there a way off adding additional info in any way at all?

[Menar]

Hi there,

How many extra fields or what is the total number of fields you require?

[ajo]

Hi -
About 6 extra text fields should do it -
or if this is not possible it might help if i could get a couple more and in addition turn a text field into a text area?

[NormanRouxel]

I thought I'd done this already. I hunted around my library of patches and found this. See if the attached readme helps.

Norman

[ajo]

Hi - Many thanks for your suggestion.
I've followed the instructions but do not see any difference - have I totally missed the trick completely?
Test Site: http://www.phone4u.co.uk/test/acatalog/

[NormanRouxel]

What did you put in Design / Text / Web Site (cont) / User Definable 3?

You should tick the "Show" checkbox for the above and have something like Age|Sex|Height in as the text for this prompt. Also make sure you're using the correct | character (it's on the bottom row of keys on most keyboards).

Norman

[ajo]

Many thanks Norman, this works a treat.

[ajo]

Seeing as you seem like the man to ask, I don’t suppose you have any ideas about this one?:

Some of my products are free with a variable monthly subscription. My business requires credit card details to be taken whether they have chosen a free product or not. In actinic if I choose a free product the credit card fields do not come up during checkout. Do you know of a means of forcing the credit card fields to come up whether any money is taken or not?

http://www.phone4u.co.uk/test/acatalog/

[NormanRouxel]

Afraid I can't help on that one.

I saw your post elsewhere on this so I hope someone (Actinic themselves) will see it and help.

Norman

[ajo]

Hi Norman – do you know if I can lengthen these new text areas? The size attribute doesn’t seem to make any difference. Also I’m told you have a tip for making them into multi line text area, is this possible?
ajo

[NormanRouxel]

In your (patched) Act_Order02.html there are the lines
document.write('<td><input type="text" autocomplete="off" name="user_' + I + '" value="' + vals[I] + '" onchange="merge(\'user_\',\'GENERALUSERDEFINED\',' + defs.length +');"></td></tr>');


Add your size there. E.g.

document.write('<td><input type="text" size="50" autocomplete="off" name="user_' + I + '" value="' + vals[I] + '" onchange="merge(\'user_\',\'GENERALUSERDEFINED\',' + defs.length +');"></td></tr>');

As to changing some ot these to textarea's, sorry I've not done that. You do have all the source code for this patch and could extend it if you want.

Norman