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

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi Franz,
> 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.

This behaviour was created with the new tt_address version 2.x.x, before 
company, first and middle name where missing. It's mainly the same with 
current problems with fe_users.
We have this point on file and will discuss it on T3CON end of this 
week. I think we will add a dependency to the new versions of 
sr_feuser_register and tt_address to commerce and remove those fields.

Ingo

> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Franz Koch


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