Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

[grangewood]

I have created a custom product field called fullPrice to allow me to show a saving on certain products ie. £new discount price was £fullPrice.

On the Product page I have used the code;

<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:product:customfield_values:customfields:FullPrice">
 was £<s>&mvt:product:customfield_values:customfields:FullPrice;</s>
</mvt:if>

which has pulled the old full price in fine which you can see an example of on my site here : http://www.grangewoodfencing.com/mm5...ry_Code=CLOSEB

However when I insert the same code into the Category page (CTGY) the old full price does not display.


Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[Brennan]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

The syntax of how you are pulling the custom field value requires the custom field to first be assigned to the page. (This is the legacy way of using custom fields, however it should still work)

Go to CTGY, then Product List Layout, and under the custom field section make sure any custom fields you wish to display are assigned.

If your interested, the "new" way of using custom field does not require them to be assigned to the page and they can be used on any page.

Here is what it would look like:

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Product_Code(l.settings:product:code, 'FullPrice', g.FullPrice)" />
&mvt:global:FullPrice;

Here are some references videos as well (See the custom fields section):
http://www.miva.com/videos/category/...raining-series

[grangewood]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

Thanks for your help.

I had already assigned the custom filed as you have suggested but it still does not display.

How do I modify my existing code to utilise the new code that you suggested?

[hmendenhall]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

Thanks for your help.

I had already assigned the custom filed as you have suggested but it still does not display.

How do I modify my existing code to utilise the new code that you suggested?

Could you send a code snippet so I can see your code??

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

Pardon the interruption but...

How would you use the new method in a CONDITIONAL statement.

Using grangewood's example, could you use it with an if statement to only call the field if it was not null???

Thanks in advance and sorry for the interruption.

[Brennan]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

Yes you can check to see if its value in null (or not null)

<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL g.FullPrice">
   // There is a value
</mvt:if>

[grangewood]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

I am currently using the following conditional code (which works fine on the Product Display page but not on the Category page);

<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:product:customfield_values:customfields:FullPrice">
 was £<s>&mvt:product:customfield_values:customfields:FullPrice;</s>
</mvt:if>

I have checked that the Custom Field is assigned correctly on the CTGY page (which it is) but the code will still not render. Super Moderator Brennan suggested that I try the 'new' way of using custom fields to see if this would help. He supplied the following code snippet but I wasn't sure how to combine it with my existing code;

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Product_Code(l.settings:product:code, 'FullPrice', g.FullPrice)" />
&mvt:global:FullPrice;

Many thanks for your assistance with this.

[Leanne]

Re: Custom Fields only working on Certian Pages

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Product_Code(l.settings:product:code, 'FullPrice', g.FullPrice)" />

<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL g.FullPrice">
 was £<s>&mvt:global:FullPrice;</s>
</mvt:if>