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Anyone know how to add the manufacturer of an item to the order invoice? We dropship most of our orders and need to know who to send the order to and all that jazz. I'd like for it to display right next to the model number, before the quantity. I've searched and tried my own solution, to no avail. As is obvious by my post here.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks to all whom I've learned so much from here!

Done, this should work.

Thanks for working on this! It's not working for me though. The column name displays, but then in the product line it just says "Array". Screenshot attached.

File updated above.

Closer, I think! But...still getting this:

Notice: Undefined index: manufacturer_name in C:\xampp\htdocs\newstore\vqmod\vqcache\vq2-admin_controller_sale_order.php on line 2074Notice: Undefined index: manufacturer_name in C:\xampp\htdocs\newstore\vqmod\vqcache\vq2-admin_controller_sale_order.php on line 2074

File updated again. This time, I can't reproduce the problem so if you can, PM me for further details.

Won't be necessary: works perfectly!!! Thank you so much!

Hi i have a question does this working for version 1.5.4.1?

Hi does this work for 1.5.4.1?because i added to the xml folder in the vqmod but there is no differce

On old thread but it does work in 1.5.4. Not on screen in the View Order->Products tab, but rather when you click "Print Invoice". It would be great to get it on order_info.tpl in addition to order_invoice.tpl. Any tips? and thanks for the huge time saving

jgates wrote:On old thread but it does work in 1.5.4. Not on screen in the View Order->Products tab, but rather when you click "Print Invoice". It would be great to get it on order_info.tpl in addition to order_invoice.tpl. Any tips? and thanks for the huge time saving

The question would then become how to retrieve the information from an order which would involved a product if the manufacturer info is not stored within the info itself, unfortunately. After a certain time, for some Businesses, the manufacturer may no longer be relative with the product which could bring confusion between the merchant and customer later on upon reports.

The only way out would be by storing the manufacturer's name within the order upon completed checkout process.

How can this be done in OC 2.1

Look on OrderField module

straightlight wrote:The question would then become how to retrieve the information from an order which would involved a product if the manufacturer info is not stored within the info itself, unfortunately. After a certain time, for some Businesses, the manufacturer may no longer be relative with the product which could bring confusion between the merchant and customer later on upon reports.

Old post I know but this is very good advice by Straightlight.This type of thought process is what separates the good developers from the not so good!

I recently began working on a modification which involved a similar thought process (adding the SKU to all available points during the checkout and order process). First point of call was to visit the extensions section to see if I could use an existing vQmod as a base framework.

I discovered this: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... show%20sku

Going through the code, it is evident that the SKU is obtained through extra $product_info calls. While on face value, this achieves the desired result, this will bring about problems and confusion in the future if the SKU is changed or deleted after an order is placed.

Moving forward, the correct approach is to create a new column on the order_product table and store the SKU with each order (I am using the product ID with a prefix as a fallback in cases where no SKU has been entered). Admittedly I have hit a brick wall (http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=168050) which I hope to break through soon!

The sad thing is that most end users are unaware of such issues, which is why it is always best to stick to extensions created by reputable developers. I have lost count of the number of times that I have purchased an extension (to save development time), only to find myself "patching up" questionable code.