Display custom fields last?

[triplw]

I am using a product template for a custom field on products that also are kits. Product options are being displayed to the customer in this order: Variants, Custom Fields, then Kit Component Options. I would like the Custom Fields to be displayed last.

On my site it is the field that says: Enter any Special Instructions.
http://72.167.108.225/ac7_b8272/Product ... egoryId=86

Can anyone tell me what file controls the order that the product fields are displayed and how to modify it?

[jmestep]

Check out the App_Code/producthelper.cs
You could probably move this section

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    public static void BuildProductChoices(Product product, PlaceHolder phChoices)
    {
        // ADD IN THE PRODUCT TEMPLATE CHOICES
        ProductTemplate template = product.ProductTemplate;
        if (template != null)
        {
            foreach (InputField input in template.InputFields)
            {
                if (!input.IsMerchantField)
                {
                    // ADD THE CONTROL TO THE PLACEHOLDER
                    phChoices.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<tr><td colspan=\"2\">"));
                    phChoices.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl((input.UserPrompt + "<br />")));
                    WebControl o = input.GetControl();
                    if (o != null)
                    {
                        phChoices.Controls.Add(o);
                    }
                    phChoices.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</td></tr>"));
                }
            }
        }
    }

under the section of code that starts out:
public static List<int> BuildKitOptions(Product product, PlaceHolder phOptions)

[triplw]

Thanks for your reply Judy. I had already tried moving that section of code. I moved it to right above where it starts: public static string GetSKU(object dataItem)...

The options are displaying exactly the same. Any other ideas?

[jmestep]

I was just guessing- hadn't tried it. I just tried moving some things around in other places and still had no success.

[m_plugables]

Locate the PlaceHolder control with ID="phAddToBasketWarningKit" in ConLib/BuyProduct.ascx file and place the following code just after the closing tag of the control found in first step

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<asp:PlaceHolder ID="phCustomFields" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
			</asp:PlaceHolder>

Now edit the ConLib/BuyProduct.ascx.cs file and locate the following line of code in Page_Init method.

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ProductHelper.BuildProductChoices(_Product, phOptions);

and replace it with the following line of code

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ProductHelper.BuildProductChoices(_Product, phCustomFields);

[triplw]

I tried mazhar's solution with no success. Instead of displaying the custom field last, it didn't display at all. ??

[mfreeze]

If anybody is still interested in doing this, there is an easy way in 7.0.3 and above.

1. Set your product description in showproduct1 to [[ConLib:ProductDescription ShowCustomFields="False"]]
2. Where you want your custom fields to display use [[ConLib:ProductCustomFieldsDialog]]

[triplw]

Mary,
I can only get your method to work for the custom fields that the Merchant enters and not Customer input fields.
Am I missing something?

[plugables]

Customer input fields are supposed to be input by customer so I don't think it makes much sense to have the displayed ... but you can get them displayed by changing the following line in ProductCustomFieldsDialog.ascx.cs

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if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(tf.InputValue) && tf.InputField.IsMerchantField)

to

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if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(tf.InputValue))