preston Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Just a general question on the product attributes. Most of our products are highly customizable. Using the product attributes in the admin just does not seem to cut it. I set up 1 product with 7 Product options, each with 11 or 12 option values and then had to associate them with the one product. End result was over 54 product attributes for just that one product. So now if I understand the way osC has to work, if I have 100 products that would equate to at least 5400 product attributes. This is insane. Also having to select a product option name to assign a option value seems to be a mute point as any option value can be put with any option name when you get down to the product attribute section. I would think that you could setup product options and values in groups and then just associate the entire group with a product once. In Agora or Commerce Cgi, you just create a option file with all the product attributes and options in it. You can then just tag that one file to the product and its done and you can use that same option file over and over again. Is there anyway to do something similar in osC? Am I missing something here or is this just a major drawback with osC? I like the way the rest of the cart looks and functions. It?s just that it would be impractical for me to create 5 to 10 thousand product attributes.
portalplanet Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Just a general question on the product attributes. Most of our products are highly customizable. Using the product attributes in the admin just does not seem to cut it. I set up 1 product with 7 Product options, each with 11 or 12 option values and then had to associate them with the one product. End result was over 54 product attributes for just that one product. So now if I understand the way osC has to work, if I have 100 products that would equate to at least 5400 product attributes. This is insane. Also having to select a product option name to assign a option value seems to be a mute point as any option value can be put with any option name when you get down to the product attribute section. I would think that you could setup product options and values in groups and then just associate the entire group with a product once. In Agora or Commerce Cgi, you just create a option file with all the product attributes and options in it. You can then just tag that one file to the product and its done and you can use that same option file over and over again. Is there anyway to do something similar in osC? Am I missing something here or is this just a major drawback with osC? I like the way the rest of the cart looks and functions. It?s just that it would be impractical for me to create 5 to 10 thousand product attributes. Hi. I'm interested in the group idea too. I'm working on a cart with less products but it takes forever to add all of the attributes to a product. Justin :(
Guest Posted February 16, 2004 Posted February 16, 2004 Yeah, Ive been tryin to figure this one out too. I have aprrox 20 products with about 200 options each. that would end up being around 4000 optins id have to type in.
drakonan Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 There are some contributions to "copy" attributes. Have you guys looked in the contributions? I haven't used any, however I will need to soon. - - - - Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
gtotman2 Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 Try: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,500
portalplanet Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 Try: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,500 Have you tried that one gtotman? Just wondering how smoothly it works and how if at all non-technical users can use it to manage their store. I'll check it out though. Justin :unsure:
gtotman2 Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 I havent tried it yet. Spending all my time trying to work out my SSL issues first. I do intend to try it later.
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