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.

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Overview

Select server is one of the Form fields that allows clients to select server during order. Server" is separate entry HostBill → Settings → Apps that is related to 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 above, this option will set required variable name + load servers you've have available in Connect with App for this product

• You can update server names in Values tab

• If you've added new server, 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 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

• Make sure to monitor servers usage that are available in this field.

  • By default (when this field is not available), HostBill attempts to best-fit new accounts on configured servers.

  • When this field is enabled your customers can quickly overload single servers with new accounts.

  • When certain server is getting full, make sure to remove it from "Values" tab in this field.

Basic settings

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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.

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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

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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 only admin can see this field

• Show in cart - display this field during order

• Don't discount - when enabled promo codes will not discount this field

• Show in Invoice - choose when to add field description to invoice line:

  • 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

Client area sample view

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