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Adding Extra Fields

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Creating extra fields

To add an extra field:

1. Click on 'Extra fields' (Products menu->Extra fields).

2. Use the 'Add extra field' subsection of the 'Extra fields' dialog box to provide the details of the new extra field as follow:

FIELD NAME - type the name of the extra field as it will appear in your store interface (both in your store back-end and in the Customer zone).

SERVICE NAME - type a unique name by which the application will be able to identify the extra field. This value will not appear anywhere in your store interface and will be the same for all your store languages.

DEFAULT VALUE - type a value that will appear in the extra field by default; will not be visible to customers unless saved by you as the value of the extra field in the 'Product details' form. Completion of the DEFAULT VALUE field is optional.

SHOW - Check box defining the extra field's availability to customers (Selecting the check box makes the extra field visible in the Customer zone. Unselecting the check box hides the extra field from the Customer zone, but leaves it available for editing in your store back-end).

ORDERBY - Numeric value defining the position of the extra field on the 'Product details' page.

3. Click on Add new. The extra field should be added to the list of extra fields above. You should see an Information box with a confirmation message.

Note: After an extra field is created, it becomes available on the Product details page of every product that you can edit using your current account. However, please be aware that, no matter whether you have defined a default value for an extra field or not, the extra field does not appear on the Product details page of a product in the Customer zone until you visit the Product details page of that product in your store back-end and assign a value to the field or approve the default value. See the chapter Assigning Values to Extra Fields for details.

Managing multilingual extra field names

If your store supports more than one languages, you need to provide names for your extra fields in all the languages supported by your store.

To add a name for an extra field in a language other than the default store language:

1. Open the 'Extra fields' dialog box containing a list of your extra fields:

2. From the language selector in the top right-hand corner of the 'Extra fields' dialog box (if you can not see the language selector then it is not added by BuySellDirect.net administrator yet), select the language in which you would like to add a field name. There will be a page refresh and you should see the language of your store back-end change to the language you selected.
3. Edit the names of the extra fields in the list replacing the values in the FIELD NAME column by field names in the selected language.

Note: The value of the FIELD NAME field is the only thing that needs to be changed for specific languages. An extra field's service name, default value, availability and position number remain the same for all your store languages.

4. Click the Update button to save the changes. The new values should be applied. You should see an Information box with a confirmation message.
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