ER: Internal Note should be visible in BE order view

[larsake]

Hello,

This is an enhancement request (ER) to have the product "Internal note" visible and accessable in the order view of the backend/admin console, or similar solution that solve problem described below.

Joomla 2.5
Virtuemart 2.0.26d

Problem: For shops that sell products manufatured by someone else and where the product is not normally in stock, it is essential to add/store the manufacturers partnumber and other internal info together with the product but hidden for users. When a user have ordered the product and the shop owner or admin go to the orders page in the  BE it would speed up the order process a lot if the manufaturers partnumber was easily accessable. In current Virtuemart it seem not possible to access such hidden info.

A hidden field such as the products "Internal note" is ideal for this. However, the current problem with "Internal note" is that it is only visible when you bring up the product in the BE, not from the Orders page.

It would be perfect if there was either a new column added to the Orders page in the BE with a link that when clicked show a pop-up with the products internal note or some other smart solution to easily show the internal info. There must also be a solution to handle the case when the order have multiple products, i.e. when there will be several "Internal info" for the same order.

[AH]

in 2.5.4 there is a new field

MPN (manufacturers part number)

This can be used to store the manufacturers id for a product

It does not get stored in an order but it would be fairly straightforward to read this data based on the product id into your order screens and picking notes