WooCommerce checkout field filled with form tag, when it should come empty from form

[tivendo]

Hey,

absolute amazing what you have build here, congratulations!

One quick question, how do I get a value from my form at the WooCommerce checkout page? I dont need it as input field or something like that, I just need to check if the value is filled. If it's filled I can unset billing_company. If its not filled, I have to show the field billing_company.

I need to do this, because on my form I have a selection if someone is a private person or a company. If it is a private person, the company input field is hidden. Till here, everything is fine. But after filling the form and going to WooCommerce checkout, the original WooCommerce billing_company field is filled with my tag from the form; in this case "{Billing_Firma}".

this is not good as the field is also present on the invoice, in the mails etc.

Thanks for your answer and best regards. Keep up the good work!

Luis

[RensTillmann]

Hi Luis,

The "problem" here is that when you conditionally hide a column any fields inside this column basically do not exist.
That's why the tag {Billing_Firma} will just hold the value "{Billing_Firma}", it's basically plain text, because there is no field with that name if it's conditionally hidden.

What you will want to do here is add a "Variable field". Just add a Hidden field element, then rename it to Billing_Firma.

Then rename the original Billing_Firma to pre_Billing_Firma.

Now you can define your variable conditions so that whenever {pre_Billing_Firma} == "" (empty)
When it's conditionally hidden it will be an empty string, so the above condition will return true, in this case you can set the variable field value to be empty (just leave it blank).

Now you add another conditional check, which checks against {pre_Billing_Firma} != "" (not empty)
When this is the case you set the variable field value to be {pre_Billing_Firma} which would then return the actual company name.

Now you can us the tag {Billing_Firma} which will now hold either an empty string, or the actual company name.

Hope it makes sense.