[TYPO3-commerce] additional fields for tt_address cause problems - change needed

[Franz Koch]

Hi list,

commerce is adding additional fields to tt_address which is not bad in 
general, but commerce adds the field 'company' which is already present 
in the db and the TCA. So the field get's rendered twice which causes 
problems in the BE. The field company always shows 'undefined' or is 
displayed empty when editing the record - even if it was filled correctly.

Secondly, commerce is adding the field 'surname' which is quite obsolete 
for one of the current tt_address installations (the ones no longer 
shipped with the core) which already have fields for that, namely:
- first_name
- middle_name
- last_name (which is the surname)

So I vote for a change in commerce to:
a) don't add the company field when it's already present
b) use 'naming conventions' of current tt_address and 
sr_feuser_register, so that the fields have the same name. So please 
change 'surname' to 'last_name' (don't forget to change the TS for the 
form fields in pi3 and pi4).

In my installation I changed this (ext_tables.php, TS and the 
templates), and everything works fine.


Anybody else who would appreciate this? Then please drop a note. If it's 
of common interest I'll create a bugentry.

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Kind regards,
Franz Koch