Problems with custom fields

[Orange22]

I have added a number of custom fields to my product database such as designed by, materials, notes, care instructions, etc. They all work without out a hitch. I've sice gone back through the Utilitites area, and added a field for a slideshow, which will link to the an http address of a flash slideshow to embed into the page.

The problem is, this new custom field shows up in the product edit admin area, but never seems to become available on the product display page, even though all of my other custom fields are there and working just fine.

I've added the latu.net Store Helper Module v5 to get alook at all of the local variables.

The list doesn't show my new custom fields along with the existing ones. What could be happening? Why would the fields be unavailable?

Thanks!

[wcw]

The poinit and click view on the prod page template would let you add the new field. Caution: You will lose all your edits you might have made on the prod page template so be prepared to recall the previous version from the history to recover custom editing.

[Orange22]

Well, that worked. Is there something in the code for the 'point-and-click' method that enable sthe variables? Now they show up in my product listing, and they are available as local variables (when they weer NOt before).

I would like to never use the point and click method if possible, but what am I missing?

[imnotinsane]

Yes, this is not documented very well. I came accross the same problem, when ever you add a new custom field you must use the "point + click" to activate it. What i do is just copy all the code from advanced mode, hit point and click mode, make the change and then paste the old code over the garbage miva puts it.

Hopefully the developers will notice this and fix this issue in the next release.