How to add a custom dropdown field for a product in VirtueMart?

Question

I am using joomla 3.x with VirtueMart.

I am trying to add a custom field "Country of Origin" to a product. It would be the best that I can make use of the country list provided by VirtueMart.

How can I accomplish that?

Answer 1

Try this,

Components -> Virtuemart -> Products -> Custom Fields -> create new filed as new List option

Then select it in product details page custom fields section

Assume that you are using VM2.x

Hope it helps..

Answer 2

Copy and past this code in to your XML file in the following directory:

administrator\components\com_helloworld\models\forms\helloworld.xml

<field 
    name="greeting"
    type="category"
    extension="com_helloworld"
    class="inputbox"
    default=""
    label="Day"
    description="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_FIELD_CATID_DESC"
>
    <option value="Plese select 'DAY'">--select days--</option>
    <option value="Monday">Monday</option>
    <option value="Tuesday">Tuesday</option>
    <option value="Wednesday">Wednesday</option>
    <option value="Thursday">Thursday</option>
    <option value="Friday">Friday</option>
    <option value="Saturday">Saturday</option>
    <option value="Sunday">Sunday</option>
</field>