Master Products vs. Attributes

[schreyack]

I sell items that come in various sizes... 2oz, 4oz, 8oz, ect...

 

What I'd like to have is a "master category" which would then list all the slaves like Master Products does. I've tried setting up Master Products with a master of zero cost and zero items, with the slaves listed under. But it doesn't work quite right with the master set to zero.

 

Using Products Attributes, I can sort of achieve what I want on the customer facing side, but then I lose my product inventory, since each size is no longer an individual product, but an option.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

tim

[Guest]

I, too, am not happy with the Product Attributes section. Some of my products will have up to 262 options per product (scents) and having to go through your list of products to attach those options to is cumbersome.

 

And some products' options will need to have a sku number attached since the supplier goes by their sku numbers and not so much the descriptions.

 

For example's sake: Holiday Widget (HW000)

Option: Blue widget with green trim (HW001)

Red widget with green trim (HW002)

Yellow widget with green trim (HW003)

 

But I can't use the name set of options for the next Holiday Widget cause it's sku number is HW100.

Option: Blue widget with green trim (HW101)

Red widget with green trim (HW102)

Yellow widget with green trim (HW103)

 

Is there a contribution for my situation and for Schryack's situation?

[schreyack]

Anyone have any ideas on this?

[Jan Zonjee]

Anyone have any ideas on this?

I use Master Products that way and don't have a problem with it at all (except that the admin/categories page becomes a monster when you add in more contributions ;) ).

[PartyMania]

You'd probably need to do some major custom coding to achieve this. I made a contribution to add large numbers of attributes to products at one time (because i had several products that needed hundreds of attributes attached) but I didn't have a need to inventory each different attribute.

 

Actually since all of the sold items' attrbutes are stored in the database, you could probably just write a script to track which one's have sold?? But you would still need to add a database field to track the PLU.

[kgt]

Have you looked at QTPro yet?

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contri...ro&category=all

[Guest]

I use Master Products that way and don't have a problem with it at all (except that the admin/categories page becomes a monster when you add in more contributions ;) ).

 

 

This can be pared down quite considerably - the categories.php looked forward to work I never did, so much is quite redundant - I'll try to find time for an update over my holiday break (what holiday!!??) :)

 

Matti