Question

I created a simple custom attribute on the sales/order entity. Now, for new orders, order number is null. I looked at the sales_order table, and sure enough, increment_id is null… can anyone help me out, I am stumped?

This is my setup.php:

`public function getDefaultEntities()
{

     return array(
         'order' => array(
             'entity_model'      => 'sales/order',
            //'attribute_model'   => 'catalog/resource_eav_attribute',
             'table'             => 'sales/order',
             'attributes'        => array(
             'pr_email_sent'     => array(
                    'label'             => 'prEmailSent',
                     'type'              => 'varchar',
                     'default'           => 'false'
                 ),

            )
        )
   );

}`

This is my config.xml

<fieldsets>
             <sales_order>
                 <pr_email_sent><create>1</create><update>1</update></pr_email_sent>
             </sales_order>
         </fieldsets>

Thanks.

Answer 1

I solved this by scrapping my setup.php file, and in my mysql4-install-0.1.0.php did the following:

<?php

// file mysql4-install-0.1.0.php


$installer = $this;
$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('sales_setup');
$installer->startSetup();

$setup->addAttribute('order', 'pr_email_sent', array('type'    => 'text',
                                                     'default' => 'false'
                                                    )
                    );

$installer->endSetup();

?>

Works like a charm now. Not sure what the difference is, besides the obvious… The lack of documentation in Magento is pretty uninspiring.