How to add an extra field to an ad?

tommyxv · June 5th, 2006, 08:54 AM

How to add check boxes for extra fields?

Sorry about the multiple posts today. There are all different questions, and I noticed that if you ask to many question in one post, some get overlooked.

Thanks,

Chuck S · June 5th, 2006, 09:18 AM

That would require code modification to achieve something like this. Replacing an input box with a select box is rather easy but with checkboxes your dealing with arrays which is slightly harder. You can discuss this kind of thing in the mods forum.

tommyxv · June 5th, 2006, 02:20 PM

Ok, can you tell me how to add a drop down menu then?

Chuck S · June 5th, 2006, 06:21 PM

Code:

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Replace the html for extra1 say with this in uploadproduct.tmpl you can vary it with your needs but this is a good example

openfire · October 26th, 2006, 07:53 PM

This worked fine for me in uploadproduct, but in order for the drop-down menus to appear when editing an ad, it was neccessary to add the code into editproduct.

The only problem is that when someone edits their ad, the value in the drop-down menu reverts back to the default value, not the current value in the existing ad....

This is a problem because if someone is editing a different part of the ad, they may not notice that the value in the drop-down menu has changed.

Is there a way to correct this in uploadproduct?

This is probably a simple fix, but I'm still just getting the hang of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Chuck S · October 26th, 2006, 08:13 PM

I just suggest you use 2.6 which has unlimited extra fields

openfire · October 26th, 2006, 08:20 PM

Chuck, I think you have misunderstood my issue.

I don't need any more extra fields.

I'm talking about drop down menus in the extra fields as per your code 3 posts above...

openfire · October 26th, 2006, 08:41 PM

OK...
Does 2.6 include drop-down menus in the extra fields?

Chuck S · October 27th, 2006, 06:46 AM

check boxes radio boxes drop downs input boxes

openfire · October 27th, 2006, 08:39 AM

Wow, that's great!

If I upgrade, what will I lose in terms of work already done in the previous versions ie: categories, modifications, etc?

Chuck S · October 27th, 2006, 12:05 PM

well code modification you made on your own your going to lose

Anything normal in our program you are not going to lose

openfire · October 27th, 2006, 04:18 PM

I don't mind re-doing all the code modifications. What I'm worried about is the thousand categories/subcategories!!!

I assume that when you say "normal in the program", categories/subcategories falls under "normal in the program"...

Just to be 100% clear, my categories/subs will be safe if I upgrade, right?

(If I lose my cats/subs, I'll be devasted

)

Chuck S · October 27th, 2006, 04:20 PM

Yes your regular info cats products reviews etc are all fine in an upgrade

Only thing not safe in an update is any modifications you have done since they would not exist in our default code

openfire · October 27th, 2006, 05:39 PM

OK sounds good. I'll upgrade.

Thanks for the info Chuck!