Make custom input mandatory?

[Leon van der Zanden]

I have some articles in my shop that need custom input. This input MUST be mandatory. I can't find any option in the special fields table to make the plugin based customer input mandatory. Anybody a suggestion how to solve this? Or is this a new requirement for VM 2...?

[PolishedGeek]

I'm not sure when (if?) the capability to make a custom field be required is being added to VM2 custom fields. Supposedly a lot of nice improvements are coming for them in 2.1 and 2.2 down the road though.

In the meantime, if you want a lot more control over the custom fields in your products, including the ability to make them required, then there is an extension to handle this.

Our Breezing Forms Custom Fields extension offers a viable approach for complex custom fields, as long as you don't need parent/child products or to track stock by each of the options.

What we have is an extension that seamlessly integrates a completely custom Crosstec Breezing Form into the custom field area of a VirtueMart 2 product. Because BreezingForms is a fully featured form development component, this means that you can do all those great things you expect from best selling form design software,  then use that form as the way to capture product options and attributes for a VM2 product.

And because you are using a form design component, you can control the way the fields depend on one another for the values and the final pricing.

If you think this sounds like it might help you, here's a link to our documentation to learn more: http://docs.polishedgeek.com/wiki/display/BFCUSTOM . There's a also a YouTube video there on the doc homepage that explains it a bit more.

We have a simple demo page here: http://klarna.polishedgeekdev.com/index.php/shop/eyeglasses/awesome-eyeglasses-detail  (still working on a demo site with several different products and examples)

You can learn more about the form component our extension integrates here: Crosstec BreezingForms http://crosstec.de/en/extensions/joomla-forms-download.html   (You have to have both VM2 and BreezingForms to use our extension).

The plugin has been vetted by the VirtueMart team and is available for sale on our website or here on VirtueMart.net (http://extensions.virtuemart.net/extensions-virtuemart-2/breezing-forms-custom-fields-plugin-detail)

I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Feel free to pose them in the forum here, or if you would prefer to discuss your requirements more privately, just open a ticket: https://polishedgeek.com/clients/contact.php