HI folks. First of all, a huge Thank You for the work that you’ve done. I work with a non-profit charity that is planning to host periodic food sales as a fund raiser, and TastyIgniter seems to be a perfect fit. Ideally, I’d like the user to be able to optionally enter an email address and/or a telephone number during Checkout. If they enter an email address, they get order status updates via email. If they enter a telephone number, they get order status updates via SMS. If they enter both, they get both. If they enter neither, they get neither. Simple. I like simple. 😃 By default, the email address is a required field on the Checkout form. By looking through other posts, I figured out how to make it optional, but if a valid email address is not provided, I get a crash during a status update (in Kitchen Display). Note that I have also configured SMS updates, and I don’t have the same problem with telephone number. It works exactly as described above. How can I make email address optional without crashing during order status updates? Thank you.

Making email address optional

jgalvinjr

HI folks. First of all, a huge Thank You for the work that you’ve done. I work with a non-profit charity that is planning to host periodic food sales as a fund raiser, and TastyIgniter seems to be a perfect fit.

Ideally, I’d like the user to be able to optionally enter an email address and/or a telephone number during Checkout.

If they enter an email address, they get order status updates via email.
If they enter a telephone number, they get order status updates via SMS.
If they enter both, they get both.
If they enter neither, they get neither.

Simple. I like simple. 😃

By default, the email address is a required field on the Checkout form. By looking through other posts, I figured out how to make it optional, but if a valid email address is not provided, I get a crash during a status update (in Kitchen Display).

Note that I have also configured SMS updates, and I don’t have the same problem with telephone number. It works exactly as described above.

How can I make email address optional without crashing during order status updates?

Thank you.

roydeanjr

jgalvinjr Did you ever get this code change made and it works?

ryanmitchell

You would need to amend kitchen displays code to check if email is supplied - because it’s required by the system KD assumes it will be there.

see controllers/views

jgalvinjr

Actually, I didn’t get it working. I just worked around the limitation. I made email address optional, and then added code that checks to see if it’s empty when the user clicks Checkout. If so, then I put a dummy email address in so that everything else works. From the user’s perspective, it’s an optional field, which is what I wanted.

I’m with a non-profit that is sponsoring a drive-through event for six consecutive weeks. Since that’s all we really need, I didn’t want to spend too much time on it. However, I do appreciate the work the community has done on this, so if it’s really useful for people, I might be willing to jump in and look deeper once we get past our event.