Admin>Product Attributes problems

[ChrisW123]

Admin > Product Attributes

 

Here's a couple suggestions on the product attribute setup screen in Admin:

 

1) When selecting a product "Option", the price shown at the top of the screen doesn't adjust itself to reflect the option price variation.

 

2) When an "Option Name" is selected from the "Product Attributes" section, the "Option Value" combobox should show only the values for that option.

 

3) BIG PROBLEM: I need to have each option default to a certain selection but it seems impossible. The order seems completely random even though I've tried adding in "1), 2), etc" to the item descriptions and even inserting the options in a particular order. But the options in the comboboxes in the store still show up randomly. This is a HUGE problem. Is there a contribution to fix this? Any advice on this is appreciated. I doubt I can fix it myself. :(

 

4) There should be a way to make 1 set of options and option price

variations the DEFAULT for all products, or at least for all products in a

particular "type". Example, my products will all have the same

options and option price variations, but as it is I'm still going to have to

Insert ALL OF THEM (4 inserted options) for each and every product I add! Now

imagine if my products had 3 option boxes with 5 options each... That's 15 options

for each of my 500 products = 7500 options that I have to insert manually!! Is there a contribution for this?

 

5) Need some way to "batch process" the product creation. As it is,

it's a tedious process. Example, I'd like to setup a something saying

the Price = $10, the Date = 8/1/2004, the Whatever = this, the something

else = that, the list of images for each is in this Folder: Now go

ahead and batch process all of them.

 

Does anyone know of a contribution that handles some or all of these problems, and in particular #3?

 

Thanks!

[JeanLuc]

Try this for an easiest configuration of the options: Attribute Sets or this one: Attributes Copier

 

Try this to sort your attributes: Product Attributes Sort Order v1.0

 

Try this to have an updated price when an option is choosed: ShowNewPrice or this one: Options - Price Update

 

Regards

[ChrisW123]

Thanks Jean! I'll try all of those. I'm going to search for something that will allow me to use just one "attribute setup" for all my products so I don't have to type in the same thing for all my products. And if I can't find anything I'll try to write something myself to do it and add it to the contributions.

 

-Chris.

[Mystickers]

That what i was looking for too. at the moment i have try the Attribute_sets very complicated, (the example and snapshots look very nice and easy to use) but i have not success get it running yet.

 

ChrisW123 if u have any luck with something let me know iwill try it too

 

 

 

thanks

[ChrisW123]

Mystickers,

 

I just installed these ones:

 

1) Options-Price Updates: I choose this one because the other one doesn't seem to support "-" prices. Works great. It will add a line on the "buy" pages that shows the adjusted price with a blurb "Your adjust price is: ...", but I didn't like that and modified the code a little so that it shows the correct price in the large price at the top of the page instead.

 

2) Product Attribute Sort Order v1.0: This one fixed the attribute sort order on the "buy" pages. And another awesome feature it has is it adds a list of checkboxes to the Product Setup page in admin so when you are creating a new product you simply checkmark the options you want for that product and it automatically adds them into the "Attribute/Option setup" screen!! Sweet this will save me a ton of time setting that stuff up.

 

Be sure to read the instructions carefully. You will have to copy a couple .php files over your existing files so if you have already made changes, you need to copy the files in and then redo your changes. I used "ExamDiff" program to see what the diffs where first, then reapplied them later. I didn't have that many changes. If you have not made any changes to those files then don't worry about it, just copy in the new ones. If you have made a lot of changes, then compare the new file in the contrib to the ORIGINAL files... that will show you the blocks of code to copy into your existing files.

 

Good luck! Thanks again to JeanLuc for posting these!!

[dscheff]

Just ran into a problem. This shop offers about 65 different prints that can be added to any shirt. I created the attrtibute set for it, added all the attributes, everything seemed fine. Then went to add it to one of the products and there was an sql error:

 

<<-----------

1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax near ',,'')' at line 1

 

insert into products_attributes (products_id, options_id, options_values_id, options_values_price, price_prefix) values (170,,,,'')

----------->>

 

When I view the product on the site it lists 24 of the attributes. So while there is an sql error when adding the attribute set to the product, it clearly succeeds in doing something.

 

I am guessing it has to do with the number of options (65+). Any ideas?

 

 

Thanks - looks spectacular otherwise - what a huge improvement over the previous method.

 

- Dan

[vbemcgee]

Hi There,

I added Product Attributes Sort Order v1.6 contribution (Small Update + Full Package) to my site but the "Quantity" does not work now in the " What's in my cart / Cart Contents page". Did I miss a fix for this. Even when I create a new product and try to pick a quantity of 2 or 3 or 4 the default option of 1 is ordered,

 

Please help,

 

Vince