Product Templates - Merchant Fields

[Mike718NY]

On the Product Templates screen,
I don't understand how Merchant Fields are used:

Merchant Fields
Specify additional data to be collected on the merchant add / edit product forms.

When should these be used?
How is data collected on the "merchant product forms"?

[jmestep]

I think that is a scenario like the book template which has an isbn field and in the product, you apply that template and put in the isbn number for that book.

[mazhar]

Merchant field values are meant to be provided by merchant and customer can only see that info. For example let's take example of book. If you are creating a product which actually is a book then every book has an author. You can use book product template and specify the author information to be shown with product. Customer can see this information on product details page.

[seanhoward]

Can one disable the merchant fields from being seen by the customer? I have used them to collect additional information about items for internal use. I'll concatenate that data into the description if I want it displayed.

Thank you for helping!!!

Sean

[mazhar]

Yes possible all you need is to go to your product details page and edit Show Product 1 scriptlet and then set ShowCustomFields property of Product description control to false. Something like

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[[ConLib:ProductDescription ShowCustomFields="false"]]