Forms: Select server group field

You can find this section in HostBill Admin → Settings → Products & Services → Your order page → Your product → Components → Forms → Add new form field → Custom/Extra field types → Select server group.

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Overview

Select server group is one of the Form fields that allows clients to select server group during order. HostBill will then choose best fitting server from this group that is enabled in this product.


How to use this field

  • Make sure to save product changes before configuring this field
  • For newly added field use "Preconfigure field" button - this option will set required variable name + load servers you've have available in Connect with App for this product
  • You can update server group names in Values tab - you can also remove groups that should not be used in this product
  • If you've added new server group, use "Update field values" button that will appear above.
  • When account is inserted to database, this field will change default server for account to server from group that customer selected

Field limitations

  • This field will work correctly with "simple" provisioning apps, like cPanel, DirectAdmin etc.
  • Do not use it for more advanced apps, because:
    • HostBill often fetch resource IDs from certain server configured in this product for provisioning.
    • If customer would choose different server those IDs would not be valid, resulting in provisioning errors.
    • "Advanced" app is any app that under "Connect with app" present options that loads IDs rather than names/simple options

Basic settings

In the Basic settings section you can configure:

  • Field name -  the name for this field

  • Required field - choose if you want the field to be required to proceed
  • Description - optionally you can add the description for the field
  • Form group 

Values

In the Values section you can use values from Preconfigured field or add your own values.

For each value added you can configure:

  • Value passed to App
  • Value description
  • Enable pricing option - you can charge your clients for choosing this value:
    • Price in a given cycle
    • Setup fee
    • Upgrade fee

You also have a toggle option to hide value from the order page. 

Advanced settings

In the Advanced settings section you can configure:

  • CSS Class - field container will be displayed with this css class
  • Group - supported by some order pages to group option
  • Variable name - to use in emails
  • Admin only -  if this option is enabled o
  • Show in cart - d
  • Don't discount - when enabled promo codes will not discount this field
    • Default - show when priced or enabled in cart and not empty
    • Priced - show when selected value isn't free
    • Force - show even when it's empty or free

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