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

[ingo schmitt]

Hi,

> 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.
> 

We have now removed the company as aditional fileds from tt_address and 
raised the minumum requirements.
The naming problems will follow later.

Ingo

> Ingo
> 
>>
>> -- 
>> Kind regards,
>> Franz Koch
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen


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Ingo Schmitt                        mailto:is at marketing-factory.de
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