Using Custom Fields in Products

Custom fields let you configure additional product options that the customer can choose from when they order a product. An example of a custom field may be choice of button color on a shirt. Custom fields may be used to affect the product's price. This configuration screen lets you set up how the selected product will use any custom fields you may have defined.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature

This article is about how to configure a product to use a custom field.

For a product to use custom fields, you must first have defined the required custom fields. This is done under Admin > Products > Custom Fields.

See the help article on Creating and Configuring Custom Fields for more information on setting up a custom field.

To configure a product to use custom fields:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
2. Browse to Admin > Products.

   

   

3. Select a product to configure by either:
   • Clicking on the product code.
   • Clicking on the product name.
   • Clicking on the Manage button beside the product you want to configure, then selecting Edit Product.
     

   The product properties will be shown in the main work area, with a menu at the left to select property categories. General will be selected by default.

4. Select Custom fields from the product properties menu.
   

   The main work area contains a list of existing custom fields and the configuration options for using them.

5. Configure the settings as required.

   If you have a custom field (or fields) set up, you can configure how the product uses them:

   
   • Use System Fields, selected by default, will only make system defined options for a product available (i.e., color and size).
   • Specify Custom Fields will make custom fields available to use. Selecting this option will display checkboxes to turn fields on/off and to specify whether the field is required.
     • On, when ticked, will make a field active.
     • Required, when ticked, means that customers will be forced to fill out the option. If this is not enabled, customers may ignore the option.
6. Press Save or Save and Continue when done.

Where custom fields are used:

Once custom fields have been enabled, customers can or must (depending on your settings) interact with them in the Designer in your web store. Custom fields will also be accessible in Business Hub orders.

How the options appear in the Designer depends on the Designer layout - Inline or Popup.

In a Popup Designer, the custom fields are accessible by clicking on the Edit Options button in the Product Options panel, which opens a Configure popup containing the custom field options.

In an inline Designer, the custom fields are in the bottom-right panel along with the size options.

In Business Hub, the custom fields are accessible by clicking within the Options column in an order, which opens a drop down box containing the custom field options.