Currently a way to unrequire website field...

[JamesDavid]

Is there currently a way to unrequire fields from sellers. In particular the website field, it is unneeded for most...

Thanks

[nordal]

Hi James,

No it is not possible in the current version. I will put it on the list for possible changes/upgrades for the next version. This one should be easy fixable.

/martin

[JamesDavid]

Is there a way to hide it and auto fill it or something reason I ask is that no one with a Garage Sale listing is going to have a website.. or the personal home or car seller.....

Hi James,

No it is not possible in the current version. I will put it on the list for possible changes/upgrades for the next version. This one should be easy fixable.

/martin

[kltoday]

Yes, this is important. No idea why they ever put the website field in there to begin with.

Is there a way to hide it and auto fill it or something reason I ask is that no one with a Garage Sale listing is going to have a website.. or the personal home or car seller.....

[nordal]

I will look into this and see if there is a quick-fix to this, if not, we will have to wait for the next release.

Why it is there...well... it's ok as a optional choice I think, but it should definitely not be required, I completely agree.

[sceniccitytoday.com]

Hello and welcome Martin.

I am one of the old timers and spent a lot of time with Michael developing my portal and have been forced through my real job to spend less time on it as of late. My 1.3 updated version is no where near as far along as my 1.1 version but I am hoping to get it back where it was

You will notice on my website these fields are not required. So the fix can be done but I am sure there are too many sites out there now to do them one by one.

I have sent several messages over the last week with no response. Are you receiving these emails?

Thanks,
Rob Harrison
ScenicCityToday.com

[nordal]

Hi Rob,

Ok, interesting to hear that it has been custom fixed in your version. I will check it out and see if I can make it useful somehow.

Regarding the messages, my is that you have emailed to Michaels service@php....com address directly? Michael kept that address to be able to assist with support issues, but maybe he has been to busy to answer, or though that I got them also. Who knows.. In any case, I'm sorry about that. I now also get emails forwarded to that adr, so there should be no more of these problems.

Support tickets and other contact-us forms have been updated, so it was just the direct mails I think that escaped me :)

Thanks,
Martin.

[nordal]

As a note and update to this post I'll post a quick-fix to how users can modify forms to have less required fields. For example, if you want to un-require the Phone field from the real estate listing, open the relevant file, in this case real_estate_add.php and look for where the Phone field is. In this case it's in line 38:
<input type="text" id="req_phone" name="req_phone" class="cp_textbox" onBlur="do_blur(this.id)"...

If you want to un-require this, change it to:
<input type="text" id="phone" name="req_phone" class="cp_textbox" onBlur="do_blur(this.id)"
The only thing I have done is removing the "req_" from the id="req_phone". This will make sure the javascript check skips this item.

To make it nice and complete, I would also remove the red star * next to Phone. This is done in line 37:
<span>Phone</span>:<span class="red">*</span>

Just remove the star:
<span>Phone</span>:<span class="red"></span>

This can be done for all types of listings. Make sure you only change the id, not the name="..." part. Hope this helps.