Need additional product info inputs

Hi All,
I am not sure how to approach this or what exactly to look for.

I need to have 2 additional input boxes for each product. One for Fitting guidelines and one for Care instructions.

What, if any, add-on will help accomplish this?

Or do I need to code in some tabbed content for each product to contain each of these sets of info?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Free Software Add Ons (link top-left)

Tabbed Products Pro

Looks like it will do what you want.

Rob

"additional input boxes"? Do you mean in the admin product editing page? It sounds like you want extra "description" type text/content that would be common to numerous different products. That would be best handled by swguy's boilerplate file technique - he has a tutorial on his site (thatsoftwareguy), and it has been discussed here recently.

Sweet! Looks like exactly what I need.

Thanx

Tabbed Products Pro unfortunately on tabs the content provided by Zen Cart by default.

I think Black Belt's suggestion is what I need.

Thanx guys

Well although BLack Belt's suggestion is close to what I need, it is a little short.

I need to be able to have my client enter Extra product information on a per product basis. For Fitting and for Care. I really need two additional content input boxes and a way to access them in my templates as tabbed content - along with the product description. So three tabs total.

Is there any way to do this without hand coding in the tabs and panes in each product description?

Thanx for all the help!

If you read the documents that come with the tabbed pro. There is guide on how to setup global tabs.

As far as "new input fields" I am assuming you want new database fields that are related to the products that you can edit in the product_collect info page in admin. This needs another module http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=271

Once you get both modules working on the server. You can work on creating a new tab following the document.

Thanx CoolCarPartsOnline.

Tried to get the short descriptions to work, but with no luck. Got the admin options; i.e. Display Product Short Descriptions in Product Info and Product Listing but no extra input box showed up in the product edit screen. ( collect_info )

I'll probably just drop the idea and find another way to pull it off.

Thanx again.

just adding the table doesn't make it appear in the product page, you have to collect that data by patching the modules/product/collect_info.php and all other files modification.

I have duplicated that module and added more than 5 different fields to the product_description table.

Unfortunately I don't have time to figure out how to patch multiple files. I had to move from using a Wordpress plugin to using Zen Cart as the plugin could not be altered to allow for quantities on product variations ( colors, sizes etc. ).

I thought the Short Descriptions would at least add the input field in the collect_info page but it did not.

No problem, I'll figure another way :)

Thanx again

dkmojo:

I need to be able to have my client enter Extra product information on a per product basis. For Fitting and for Care. I really need two additional content input boxes and a way to access them in my templates as tabbed content - along with the product description. So three tabs total.
I thought that Tabbed Products Pro did what you wanted to do -- without requiring extra input fields in the prioduct info in admin. They explain in the docs how to enter data in the one big product data field so that the different pieces of info end up in the right tab.

dkmojo:

I had to move from using a Wordpress plugin to using Zen Cart as the plugin could not be altered to allow for quantities on product variations ( colors, sizes etc. ).
Well, if that's what you want to do, then Attributes should do the trick. And they're a built-in part of Zen Cart; no mods required.

Rob

rstevenson - What docs are you speaking of? Nothing in the readme file and nothing on the wiki about this - that I can find. I did find how to add the Reviews et as additional tabs but nothing on how to use the product input area to create tabs with. Unless I completely m is-understood it.

I actually just set up a small template for my client to copy into the product editing field and the tabs are created that way. Basically the ul tabs and the panes are all in the html input text area.

It works but is a bit cumbersome.

Thanx again

rstevenson:

I thought that Tabbed Products Pro did what you wanted to do -- without requiring extra input fields in the prioduct info in admin. They explain in the docs how to enter data in the one big product data field so that the different pieces of info end up in the right tab.

Well, if that's what you want to do, then Attributes should do the trick. And they're a built-in part of Zen Cart; no mods required.

Rob

Tabbed pro doesn't add any database field. It has a short tag that can be used within the product description which will create a new tab with that content. It is stored within the product_description field.

Tabbed pro can be customized so you can create a global tab such as Detail, Specifications that can be used to display fields from database. It doesn't create the database tables.

I am using the global tab for instance to display the manufacturer_about field.

Short description mod allow you to actually create a whole new field in the product_description table which you can use to store the content which you can display outside the product description (New Tab) or on product listing page etc.

Installation of both modules is very straight forward if you follow the instructions. It could take a couple of hours to learn what each addition does but after few screw ups it will become a breeze.