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We are currently still building up the English documentation; not all sections have been translated yet. Please note that there may still be German screenshots or links to German pages even on pages that have already been translated. This guide mostly addresses English speaking users in Germany.
We are currently still building up the English documentation; not all sections have been translated yet. Please note that there may still be German screenshots or links to German pages even on pages that have already been translated. This guide mostly addresses English speaking users in Germany.
Creating custom form fields
Your task/initial situation
In addition to the default information obtained from customers during their registration for JTL-Shop, you can also collect other data; e.g. whether they are business or private customers.
Adding form fields
Self-defined form fields allow you to request further information from your customers. The entered data is sent to JTL-Wawi as customer attributes.
Please note: The following applies to the transfer of customer attributes back to JTL-Shop: Only when the customer attributes maintained in JTL-Wawi have also been created as a form field in JTL-Shop can they be saved in the online shop.
- Log in to the back end of JTL-Shop with your admin access data.
- Go to View > Custom contents > Extended customer data. Here you can create as many new form fields as you like.
- Use the Language field to select the language for which you want to create a field.
- Go to the Settings tab and select Yes for Show custom form fields.
- Go back to the tab Extended customer data and adjust all required settings. Go to detailed description of settings: Extended customer data.
- Click Save to apply your changes. From now on, the field will be displayed when a visitor creates a customer account.
Hint: Custom form fields can be easily handled with workflows. To do this, simply enter Kunden\Attribute enthält (Customers\Attributes contains) and enter the field value into the field. If you create the workflow for newly registered online shop customers, you should add a small delay to make sure that the attribute is already registered when the conditions are checked.