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Manage Shop Info Fields

Info fields are your own rows in an application's details: a ServiceNow CI, a cost centre, a link to the team's wiki. You define the fields here and fill in the values per application.

Text, number, link Per application Findable by search

1 The list

Shop Info Fields: two fields with their type, order, state, whether they can be searched, and how many applications have a value
Shopping › Manage Shop Info Fields.

Each row is a field, with its type, its place in the order, whether it is switched on, whether search looks at it, and how many applications have a value for it.

2 Defining a field

The Add Info Field window with Language, Name, Type, Order, Enabled and Can be found by search
Add Info Field.
FieldWhat it does
Language, NameThe label in the details, per language. Only English is required; other languages fall back to it.
TypeText, Number, or Link — a link has a text shoppers see and an address. Only http and https addresses are accepted.
OrderWhere the field comes among your fields. The built-in rows (price, contacts, version…) always come first.
EnabledSwitch a field off to hide it everywhere, without losing the values.
Can be found by searchA shopper who searches for a value of this field finds the application. Links cannot be searched.

3 Filling in the values

Open an application's shop settings (Shop Administration) and go to Additional Information. Every enabled field has a row there. An application with no value for a field simply does not show that row, and clearing a value removes it.

4 What shoppers see

WhereWhat
The detailsA row per field that has a value, after the built-in rows. A link opens in a new tab.
SearchFor searchable fields, a match shows a tag with the field's name on the card and in the suggestions; pointing at it shows the value.
Search matches values as written Search does not forgive typing mistakes in info fields: it finds the whole value, or a value that starts with or contains what the shopper typed, so one wrong digit in a number is not a match. That is on purpose, for numbers such as a CI or a licence number.

Changes appear in the shop within about a minute and a half.