Thread: Adding Another field in the create account page

I want to Add a "How did you hear about us?" field to the create account page. Does anyone know how this could be done. Thanks.

Don't actually know the answer, but our devs repurposed the Billing Suite and delivery suite (shipping if you speak American) fields, 'cos we reckoned they wern't needed anyway. see omax.org, (don't ask!)

Used these fiels for "if you're out, where do we leave it' etc & we added a "How you hear about us" field too, so it can be done.

You are going to want to start with the createaccount.aspx + createaccount.aspx.cs. If you don't have source, then you can't change the existing add customer functions, but it's pretty easy to add in your own SQL updates after the standard inserts are done. Look around line 621, for the CreateAccount() private method.

Another way I did it was simple do the following;

in the aspx page add a new textbox.
Then add the results to the NOTES property of the AddAccount() function.

Does this make sense?

Originally Posted by Web Design Magic

Another way I did it was simple do the following;

in the aspx page add a new textbox.
Then add the results to the NOTES property of the AddAccount() function.

Does this make sense?

Can you expand on your method for this? I assume the result is that the customer "notes" section displays the text that was entered during account creation.

Specifically, how do you post the results to the Notes section of the customer's record?

OK. Lets assume your adding a field called "Business Type"

1. You add a Text Box to the aspx page and call it id="txtBusinessType"
2. Then in the createacount.aspx.cs page (around line 690 ish) you will see

Code:

/*Notes*/ null,

Change that to reference your new text box..

Code:

/*Notes*/ "Business Type:" + txtBusinessType.Text,

So now whenever your store saves a new account instead of saving a null (empty) value in the notes it is saving the text from your new text box.

You can then add validation controls if required etc..

Hope this helps.

Thank you for expanding on this, it is very helpful!