Capture additional information about an item from sales screen

For restaurants, additional information about an item can be set and sent to kitchen. This example shows how to set a button on sales screen to input item note.

Maintenance > Resources
In Ticket.Buttons add the below line:

<button key="button.receiptnote" name="button.receiptnote" code="Script.ItemNote"/>

Create a resource Script.ItemNote and add the below lines

com.posics.pos.mant.JInputDialog jid = new com.posics.pos.mant.JInputDialog();
jid.setLabel("Please enter item note");
Object[] options = { "OK", "Cancel" };  
int result = javax.swing.JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, jid, "Item Note", JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION, JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, null, options, null);
if (result == JOptionPane.OK_OPTION) 
{
  ticket.getLine(ticket.getLinesCount() - 1).setProperty("product.name", ticket.getLine(ticket.getLinesCount() - 1).getProductName() + " - " + jid.getValue());
}

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