Product Attribute Woes

[danmagicman7]

I am currently trying to use osCommerce for a large website that mostly sells apparel. They have MANY sizes of clothing. Different groups and etc. Example:

 

For items of type Shirt #1, they can have sizes of: S,M,L,XL

 

For items of type Shirt #2, they can have sizes of: XS,SM,S,M,L,XXL

 

 

The way osCommerce is setup for me now, every product i add, i have to manually add each size. A huge pain. For each item i would have to click multiple things. For some items there are as many as 12 sizes (shoes). That means i would have to do something 12 times for one product. It would be very easy to mess up on one of the 100 or so products i am entering in.

 

Right now, osCommerce doesnt even group the options with the values. I create values for a certain option, but when i go to create a product, values for all options are there. I may end up with as many as 30 different options and would not like to sort through that multiple times just for one product.

 

Is there any way i could group the attributes? I was also thinking of making a model product then copying the tables in the mySQL database....anyone have any ideas?

 

Also, the whole purpose of my switching to ecommerce is so it is easy for one of my clients to update prices and etc. I was using Mal's e, which is EXTREMEMLY versitile with options but is not easy for someone to update, you must know HTML. Right now osCommerce would be just as hard for him to edit and create products, and even harder for me. With Mal's e i simply made an example product of each type then copy and pasted.

 

Any and all suggestions are appreciated!

 

Edit: I checked out trying to poke around in the mySQL database...no chance. This "mod" if you will would have to be done on the coding side, i am not adept in php.

[Guest]

Dan,

 

There are contributions you can try to help with the attributes/options. Attribute Sets allows you to create a set of attributes and apply them to products. Attribute Manager displays the attribute options as easy to mark checkboxes. Search the contribs.

 

As for the other request, there is a way to give someone access to admin and restrict their rights. It's a contrib called Admin Access with Levels. You don't really need to know HTML to add products in admin.

 

ed

[danmagicman7]

As for the other request, there is a way to give someone access to admin and restrict their rights.  It's a contrib called Admin Access with Levels.  You don't really need to know HTML to add products in admin.

 

ed

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I was referring to Mal's-e. It is a free shopping cart which uses HTML to call to a free secure server to process requests. No database. Basically every product is a form and sends this free server the product info.

 

Anyways, thanks!