[ic] question about options - SOLVED

[Dorothy Puma]

Dorothy Puma wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running IC 4.9.5 on a Solaris 8 server with perl 5.8.
> 
> I'm actually upgrading a store from IC 4.6.5 where I had used the 
> pricing table to setup price changes for items using the CommonAdjust 
> and AutoModifier properties, which worked fine for my needs. But now 
> that I'm upgrading to IC 4.9.5, I'm moving this older store to work with 
> the new format of the options table instead. Everything is working like 
> a charm. I have tons of products that have sizes and colors with price 
> increases based on size. Prices get recalculated perfectly.
> 
> Where I'm having a problem is when I have an item (example: a jacket 
> with custom embroidery) that I want the customer to enter text for their 
> custom order. I setup an option with "text" as the o_widget, which does 
> show up on the flypage and the cart, but the text that the customer 
> enters does not get passed to the receipt page, the mail_receipt or to 
> the orders.
> 
> If any one has an ideas on how to get the "text" or "textarea" widgets 
> working, please let me know.
> 
> Thank you,
> Dorothy
> 
> P.S.  Here is a snip from my options table:
> 
> code    o_master    sku    o_group    o_sort    phantom    o_enable    
> o_matrix    o_modular o_default    o_label    o_value    o_widget    
> o_footer    o_header    o_height    o_width description    price    
> wholesale    differential    weight    volume    mv_shipmode 
> o_exclude    o_include
> 
> 970m                        
> 1                                                                            
> 
> 970m-sz        970m    size                1            Size    
> Small,Medium,Large,XL    
> select                                                   
> 970m-cl        970m    color                1            Color    
> Heather Grey,Royal,Navy,Black*    select                   
> 
> 970m-cust        970m    custom                1            Custom 
> Text    Enter your custom message here    text                   
> 
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I needed to add the UseModifier property to my catalog.cfg and then 
update the etc/report, etc/mail_receipt, etc/ship.notice etc/receipt to 
include my [item-modifier custom] tag and everything works great!

Thanks,
Dorothy