Adding multiples to the drop down attributes

[schoolboy]

Roy...

go back to post 19
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...6&postcount=19

And just follow the steps.

You create an option name...

Then you go to option values

There, you add values One-By-One to the option Name.

So you just REPEAT the process of adding values to the name, until you have all the values you need.

[schoolboy]

OK Roy... I just had a look at HE-1380-118

You now have TWO option values
- for 1 pair
- for 2 pair

... but what if I don't want either of these?

Currently, the way you have this means I HAVE TO HAVE extra chairs. If I add product to cart (making no selection) it will, by default, add one of the PAIR CHOICES to the cart.

There needs to be a THIRD option value which allows me to choose NOTHING for this attribute.

So, how do we fix this?

1. Go to Option Values Controller in your admin panel

2. From the first dropdown (Option Name), select: HE-1380 Side Chairs - Pair

3. in the en: input field, type Extra Side Chairs

4. Give it a ORDER of 1 and click INSERT

5. EDIT the Option Value 1 Pair to give it a HIGHER order - say 10

6. EDIT the Option Value 2 Pair to give it a HIGHER order - say 20

7. Open Attributes Controller and display product HE-1380-118

8. In the Large Grey Screen area, select HE-1380 Side Chairs - Pair in the first dropdown selector.

9. Then find the value: Extra Side Chairs in the seond dropdown selector

10. Click INSERT

11. Scroll up and click the "Sort Order" update button.

[RoyL]

Thanks for pointing this out as well as my boss (son) did. After all of this he finally decided for 99.99% of his customers they only buy 1 pair. So we are going to set it up that way for now. I will keep on file your most recent message to use in the future.

Thanks for all your effort. Maybe others will benefit from this thread.

Regards.

[cdnbride]

Originally Posted by schoolboy

One of the errors commonly made when setting up attributes, is that people think in terms of the PRODUCTS they are to apply to... rather than the ATTRIBUTES themselves.

When you start setting up attributes, IGNORE (for a while anyway) the individual products they are eventually going to be applied to.

Focus FIRST on setting up your Option NAMES.

Let's say I sell clothing, and now need to configure SIZE and COLOUR attributes. These will (later) apply to most of my products, which include shirts, trousers and shoes.

So, in the Option Names Manager, I start to configure my Option Names.

Looking broadly at my product mix, I decide that SHIRT SIZE is different from TROUSER SIZE, which is also different from SHOE SIZE..

I could (if I wanted to) create a broad Option Name "Size", but this might require that when I start adding Option VALUES, I'd have to be a bit more specific about what item ranges they'd apply to.

So, for sizes... I decide to create separate Option Names:

Shirt Size
Shoe Size
Trouser Size


After I have created these (and I've decided they should all be DROPDOWN type attributes), I move over to the Option VALUES manager.

Here (one by one) I start to add the various size VALUES to each of:

Shirt Size
Shoe Size
Trouser Size

For SHIRT SIZE, I create (one at a time), the following option VALUES:

Select a shirt size (sort order will be 1)
Small (sort order will be 10)
Medium (sort order will be 20)
Large (sort order will be 30)
X-Large (sort order will be 40)

(Note the " Select a shirt size " Option Value with Sort Order 1 . I will later set this as a "Display Only" option, thus enabling the cart to "force" the customer to make a proper size choice)

I now follow a similar procedure to add Option Values to the other size Option Names :

Shoe Size
and
Trouser Size

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When I have all the appropriate Option Values set up with their Option Names, ONLY THEN will I look to associating them with individual products.

So I call up my first product (via Attributes Controller), and using the two dropdown lists in the large grey screen area, link the Names and Values to the product.

I make the " Select a XXXX size " Display Only, then click the Default Sort Order button.

Then I call up the product in the webshop to test my handiwork...

I too have been having this problem but after reading schoolboy's clear instructions I see where I've been going wrong. Thanks, thats twice your posts have helped me out today!

~Cdnbride~

[cdnbride]

Okay so now I've gotten my attribute drop downs done and have copied them all to the categories that they are related to without any big problems. Now my question is, one of my attributes has a sample swatch of colors that is a small jpeg image that I attached to the first product that I was working on when setting up my attributes for my categories. When I copied my set of attributes to the categories that I wanted them in, the image didn't follow. I have about 2000 products that this swatch image and attribute apply to so I am wondering how I can get it in there without manually having to upload it for each products attributes.
Hope I didn't confuse the matter.
Here's a link to the one page that I've got it working on.
check this out

Thanks!

[cdnbride]

Found the answer to my problem so if anybody else needs the same info, its here at this thread.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...+images&page=2

~Cdnbride~

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that you were able to get this to work for you and for posting the thread to how to add 1 attribute image to all matching attribute option name/option value combinations ...

[straydogg]

didn't go to end of thread...thx