Getting "no" choices in tick-box option to appear on invoice

[rodolphe]

Hi all,

 

I have a product which includes free options - in the Custom Fields tab - in tick-box format, so "on" or "off" answers.

 

When selected, it appears correctly on the recap/invoice. It displays "option name: on". When not selected, however, it doesn't show at all.

 

I would like to display "option name: off", so that clients are reminded that they can avail themselves of more services.

 

So far I haven't found a way to do this, it doesn't appear to be in the invoicepdf.tpl file...

 

Any help appreciated!

 

Regards,

Rodolphe

[brian!]

Hi Rodolphe,

 

if unticked, then the tickbox customfield answer is not added to the appropriate database table - only positive answers (e.g if ticked) are added... there is no option to allow negative (unticked) answers to be added.

 

therefore, I can think of two ways to get around this - one simple, and another more complex.

 

the simple way would be to change the custom field from using a tickbox to a dropdown with two options: on,off (or off,on - whichever you feel if more appropriate for your site) - if you do this, then it will show either "option name: on" or "option name: off" on the invoice without the need for any template modifications.

 

the other way would involve template modification and/or action hook to determine if the product is using this custom field and if the invoice description already contains "option name:on" - if it does, it does nothing - otherwise it adds "option name: off" to the description.

 

of the two suggestions, changing to a dropdown would be the simpler solution!

[rodolphe]

<slaps forehead>

 

Perfect. Much easier, thank you Brian! I now feel I should have thought of it!