• Resolved chibichiii

    (@chibichiii)


    And another request, I tried to email you trough your official website’s contact form but unfortunately it’s been several days and still no response so I’m not certain if the request ended in the spam box somehow.

    So here it is, I’d like to suggest adding support for custom fields to the table.
    I know it’s a woocommerce data table, but woocommerce is pretty limited to adding addition data to the products. So I’m sure I’m not the first or last person to be needing Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add additional information through custom fields to for example my products archive loop.

    Now I’d like to use the information I provided in my custom fields also in my datatables.

    An example of this is:
    I have a product (Monster), in this monster I have 3 custom fields called Slot_1, Slot_2 and Slot_3, these are the monsters skills. I’m trying to create a datatable with these custom fields as columns. So the information I’ve provided in the custom fields will be entered on a per product base can be found in my table as Skill1, Skill2 and Skill3.

    Could you help me out with this please? And perhaps you’d consider adding custom fields to the regular supported fields of the plugin’s range.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author WBW Plugins

    (@woobewoo)

    Hello, @chibichiii
    Thank you for contacting us regarding your question.
    We will definitely study your proposal and will try to implement it.
    As soon as possible – I will write to you.

    Plugin Author WBW Plugins

    (@woobewoo)

    Hello, @chibichiii !
    According to your request, I have a solution that can help.
    We didn’t add custom fields as a column, but we added multiple attributes. You can display every attribute as a column separately.
    So, what if you set every monster skill as a different attribute in WooCommerce and add them all to the table? Like in our example with Attribute Color/size/colour etc.
    https://woobewoo.com/documentation/product-attribute-and-category-filters/
    Also, you can rename the column and put Skill1, Skill2 and Skill3.
    Let me know if it helps.

    Thread Starter chibichiii

    (@chibichiii)

    Hi Nick!

    Thanks for taking the time, unfortunately that’s a bit too large scale. You see I’m making a catalog for a game which has 2500 monsters, each monster having unique non repeating skills about 3 / 4 per monster. That would mean having to put in over 10.000 attributes for this solution to work.

    Also the second problem I’d be having is that I need to show images for the skills as in the game they are shown as icons. And the attributes will not let me use an icon, only tekst. So unforunately this solution would not work for me.

    The reason I mentioned custom fields is because it simply gives the freedom to add extra fields to the woocommerce installation with plugins like ACF, Pods or Toolset and we could use a lot more content like WYSIWYG editor to place 4 images including a tooltip in 1 field.

    I’m currently no longer working with Woocommerce btw, I moved to a new solution for my tables with WPdataTables and I’m using Toolset to set up the website with custom posts.

    I am very grateful that you took the time to look into my request but I think Woocommerce was simply too limited for my project 🙂

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