Product Templates
A product template tells ShopSite which product fields you want displayed in the store (using custom template tags), and how you want those fields arranged (using HTML tags). Keep in mind that products are displayed on pages, so the HTML in your product template needs to work with the HTML in your page template.
How to display multiple customer text entry fields on your store pages but only one field in the cart
If you would like to have multiple customer text entry fields which all feed into the one customer text entry field provided by ShopSite, you would need to setup your own custom form for adding the products to the cart. You would be able to incorporate this form into your pages how you want, whether it be with the OrderAnywhere feature, or with a custom template. There are many different ways you would be able to incorporate it, so this example will not show you how to incorporate it, this example will show you what the code for the form should look like.
In order for this feature to work, you would need to go to Commerce Setup > Order System > Shopping Cart, and check the checkbox to specify that the 'customer text entry cannot be changed'.
The form below is using ShopSite tags. If you are going to use this feature with OrderAnywhere, you would need to replace all of the ShopSite tags with the actual store and product information.
This is the what form below would look like:
Example 1: Product does not have ordering option pull down menus.
The form below does not work for a product with ordering option pull down menus.
Example 2: Product with ordering option pull down menus and a text field.
If the product has ordering options, you cannot use the 'finopt' names for the text field values, because the 'finopt' fields are used by the ordering option pull down menus. You would instead have to use 'freeopt' which is the actual field that would normally contain the Customer Text Entry data.
