Stock by Attributes 5.0 Beta (for v1.5.0)

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Originally Posted by RoboPhung

I recommend that you use this one instead:

http://www.robophung.net/zencart/cre...art_V1.5.0.zip

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I appreciate your work on this.

I'm wondering if what you are saying here is that the version uploaded to the plugin area here is not a working mod?

here: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=202

I'm doing a clean install of zencart V1.5.1 then upgrading from 1.3.9h in order to correct alot of problems with an old active store and the ability to use a mod like this is essential. Is the version you are working on in your link based on your experience the best shot I've got? Thanks for any insight.

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Originally Posted by RoboPhung

I recommend that you use this one instead:

http://www.robophung.net/zencart/cre...art_V1.5.0.zip

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I'm in tears.....THANK YOU....I just installed this on zencart 1.5.1....whew!....can't believe it works!

INCIDENTALLY....I LEFT OUT THE BOXES...NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS FOR BUT ADMIN>INCLUDES>BOXES ARE NOT USED IN 1.5.1

OH....have to take that back....everything looks great in the admin but my storefront disappeared. Blank. back to the drawing board....

just a file edit in functions_lookups.php.....thanks to the logs > mydebug for pointing that out.

Does this plugin work Easy Populate 4?

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Originally Posted by athena

I appreciate your work on this.

I'm wondering if what you are saying here is that the version uploaded to the plugin area here is not a working mod?

here: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=202

I'm doing a clean install of zencart V1.5.1 then upgrading from 1.3.9h in order to correct alot of problems with an old active store and the ability to use a mod like this is essential. Is the version you are working on in your link based on your experience the best shot I've got? Thanks for any insight.

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I can't say whether the one uploaded really works or not since I've never bothered testing it.

But I know that the one I uploaded in my server works. It's the version I use in my live store which runs 1.5.1, and it addresses all the bugs as stated in my previous post.

Like you, I basically did a clean install of my store on 1.5.1 and added on all essential plugin mods.

Then I ran a database patch from the zen-cart upgrade feature (explained in more detail in the zen-cart docs) to patch my database from 1.3.9h to 1.5.1. Then i went through each of my plugins sql patches and compared them with the 1.3.9h version of that plugin's sql patch. For the most part, the sql commands for the 1.5.1 plugins are the same as 1.3.9h version of the plugins, which is good, minimal work involved.

Concerning SBA in particular...if you compare the sql patch for the 1.3.9h version of SBA to this one, it's quite different, but for my store, it was okay to to run the 1.5.1 sql patch over my existing database without uninstalling the sql patch for the old SBA first. You'll see some errors, but that's due to the fact that some of the tables already exist and the sba 1.5.1 patch is simply trying to create them again, so it's no big deal.

You can get a very clean upgrade path if you do it that way, and of course, my advise is to of course do all this on a test install first, over a test duplicate database.

I have gotten used to some features not working in SBA but this new install does allow me to "save" a change and then sync the quantities.

PROBLEMS: I guess you are aware of this, or maybe it is the sql thing. I'm not sure what the dynamic drop down feature was...never installed that mod...but when I try and use the search I can not get back to the stock by attributes list. I have to log out and back in to get back the list. Otherwise it just shows me what I searched for. If I hit the reset button I just get an empty result and have to log out and in to admin to get my list back.

Also, when I Add Quantity For Product Variant it does not show me the existing stock levels.

Another problem: It is putting the item back in stock but not by attribute from Edit Orders Mod. It does sync the stock back in if I delete an entire order from the customers orders page and choose the check box to restock.

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Originally Posted by athena

Another problem: It is putting the item back in stock but not by attribute from Edit Orders Mod. It does sync the stock back in if I delete an entire order from the customers orders page and choose the check box to restock.

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I think you can hit the "search" button again when the textbox is empty and it will show all your items.

Yes when you delete an order it should sync back all attribute quantities. It never worked in prior versions of SBA, but I addressed that issue in this version.

The edit orders mod itself is entirely separate, so it wasn't coded to restock quantities by attributes. That would require editing the code in the edit orders mod files itself, rather than anything to do with SBA files.

There's a laundry list of things to do with this SBA mod as it is, all of which I won't even be able to work on anytime soon as I have my actual zen-cart business to run...so unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to address the Edit Orders problem. My only suggestion is that if you have to manually adjust an order's quantities with edit orders, it is to also manually adjust SBA quantities in the SBA menu. I don't imagine this to happen quite often with your business does it? Where you have to manually adjust quantities with edit orders...

Meanwhile, I'll add the "Reset" link bug to the things I'll fix along with the other SBA stuff....with no timetable to complete (sorry).

I did some further comparisons as I have both shops running and you are right, most of that was a problem that has been being worked around already, except for the have to log out thing. If we just avoid those functions and stay on the SBA page the "save" buttons do work, unlike the mod as I had it for 1.3.9h

I'm wondering if you have the stock quantities showing for the item attributes that are out of stock? That does work on the old mod when Configuration > Stock > "Show available stock level in cart when less than order" is set to true. This is not working with the new mod. Wondering if there is some other setting I'm missing?

I do like that the drop downs do not offer an attribute that is out of stock, (new feature in Config > Stock?...awesome!) but will find a way to make sure that is clear to the customer.