limit to add custom fields

cas · March 04, 2013, 06:02:07 AM

I agree. Your plug-in is the way to go for regular text drop-down fields, so thanks for creating it! But what do I do when my customer wants to use images for his furniture fabrics and leather selections? My plan was to enter one product complete with all the 200 plus custom field images and then just clone it for all the other products. I know I could just create a separate page with all the color choices, and then have the user remember their choice when ordering the product by selecting the color name from a drop-down list, which is how his current VM1 site works, but this is error prone, so I was hoping with VM2 to use the custom field images for a better user experience. This is why I still need this limit problem solved.

By the way, in the admin for custom fields, the ordering still does not work.

Thanks,
Chuck

PRO · March 05, 2013, 00:05:41 AM

Quote from: cas on March 04, 2013, 06:02:07 AM
I agree. Your plug-in is the way to go for regular text drop-down fields, so thanks for creating it! But what do I do when my customer wants to use images for his furniture fabrics and leather selections? My plan was to enter one product complete with all the 200 plus custom field images and then just clone it for all the other products. I know I could just create a separate page with all the color choices, and then have the user remember their choice when ordering the product by selecting the color name from a drop-down list, which is how his current VM1 site works, but this is error prone, so I was hoping with VM2 to use the custom field images for a better user experience. This is why I still need this limit problem solved.

By the way, in the admin for custom fields, the ordering still does not work.

Thanks,
Chuck

ordering of custom fields works for me

cas · March 05, 2013, 01:15:43 AM

In the admin for Product I can change the order of the Custom Fields by dragging & dropping, but in the Custom Fields admin itself, when I try to change the order of the custom fields, it does not save the order for me. Does that work for you?

PRO · March 05, 2013, 19:20:43 PM

Quote from: cas on March 05, 2013, 01:15:43 AM
In the admin for Product I can change the order of the Custom Fields by dragging & dropping, but in the Custom Fields admin itself, when I try to change the order of the custom fields, it does not save the order for me. Does that work for you?

O , no it does not

cas · March 05, 2013, 21:47:50 PM

FYI, here is the link to the custom field admin ordering issue back in Oct 2012: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=109255

As for this issue with the custom field limit of 131, please let me know when it's resolved so I can finish the website for my customer. Thanks.

cas · March 09, 2013, 21:56:01 PM

Any update on when this will be fixed?

cas · March 10, 2013, 09:03:55 AM

Banquet,

Does your Drop Box plug-in have a character limit for the Drop Box Selection field? I am not able to enter all the characters I need to enter.

Chuck

cas · March 12, 2013, 19:03:41 PM

Hi Banquet,

Any update on this character size limit to the Drop Box plug-in "Drop Box Selections" field? I can only enter about 10 items in the "Drop Box Selections" field before it reaches a character limit. My customer is waiting to load all his products and go live with his new site until this size limit is resolved.

Thanks,
Chuck

PRO · March 14, 2013, 22:58:44 PM

Quote from: cas on March 12, 2013, 19:03:41 PM
Hi Banquet,

Any update on this character size limit to the Drop Box plug-in "Drop Box Selections" field? I can only enter about 10 items in the "Drop Box Selections" field before it reaches a character limit. My customer is waiting to load all his products and go live with his new site until this size limit is resolved.

Thanks,
Chuck

look here
http://www.kaizenmediaworks.com/images/files/custom-field.png

do you see all the characters I use?

sounds like a DB problem for you or something.

cas · March 15, 2013, 00:27:24 AM

PRO · March 15, 2013, 02:03:06 AM

5300 characters

that field has a max character length of 255

I know the DB can be changed, but when you upgrade, its going to drop the rest of the characters

cas · March 15, 2013, 02:55:41 AM

When I checked the DB table xxx_virtuemart_product_customfields for the field "custom_param", where these attributes are stored, it's defined as varchar(12800), not 255. That's good news! So then when I manually pasted all the attributes into the "custom_param" field in the DB, it saves all the attributes just fine, and the website displays all the attributes in the drop down just fine. Then I went into the product admin and the plug-in Drop Box Selection field now has all the attributes in it, and when I saved the product, the attributes all remained in the DB. All great news! So then when I tried to create a new Drop Box attribute, the Drop Box Selection field is still limiting the number of characters. So can you check the plug-in to see what's limiting the Drop Box Selection field?

PRO · March 15, 2013, 03:39:31 AM

cas, I am working on this

this will be fixed. Its in the plugin

cas · March 15, 2013, 03:48:57 AM

Great! Thanks! Let me know when it's fixed and I'll test it out.

PRO · March 15, 2013, 03:51:10 AM

drop.php

function plgVmOnProductEdit($field, $product, &$row,&$retValue) {
      if ($field->custom_element != $this->_name) return '';
      $this->parseCustomParams($field);
      $html ='
         <fieldset>
            <legend>'. JText::_('VMCUSTOM_DROP_BOX') .'</legend>
            <table class="admintable">
               '.VmHTML::row('input','VMCUSTOM_DROP_STRING_NAME','custom_param['.$row.'][custom_drop_name]',$field->custom_drop_name).'
               '.VmHTML::row('textarea','VMCUSTOM_DROP_STRING','custom_param['.$row.'][custom_drop]',$field->custom_drop).'
            </table>
         </fieldset>';
      $retValue .= $html;

      return true ;
   }

in the 2nd VmHTML::row
change 'input'
to 'textarea'

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