Problems with addon: Dynamic Drop Downs for Stock By Attribute

Mod works great for me. Doesn't seem to have any problems. Installed it fine.

I am just trying to figure a way to make the out of stock items that are out of stock just grey out (disable) so it cant be selected, and the items in stock only selectable.)

Then it will be keen. ;) That how they are doing it on eBay Variation auctions. Would love a similar effect.

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Originally Posted by creinold

That how they are doing it on eBay Variation auctions. Would love a similar effect.

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All you need is a room full of coders like they have...

well actual if I can figure out where to insert this:

disabled="disabled"

in this mods code, it will do the same thing. =)

Looks like it some kind of javascript written in php?

I've installed this mod also. After a while and testing I figured out that the stock by attributes module MUST be Stock by Attributes 1.4.9 by niestudio. With that combination it works quite well. Except for some small problems.

Firstly I found out that there is a problem with attribute images. If you have only one attribute on a product the images wont show.

Secondly it seems that gift vouchers can not be ordered alone. I am not quite sure if this was caused by Dynamic Dropdown or Stock by Attributes mod since I installed them at the same time.

Thirdly if you delete an order (say customer resturns stuff) and want to also return the stock it does not work correctly. This might be because of Stock by Attributes is not working as it should.

Does anyone have any solution for attribute images or for the voucher problem?

Not completely true.. While this might work with that particular version of SBA, it was written for and will work with the KUROI version of SBA..

As I've stated in previous posts, the dynamic attributes module only works with ONE set of settings, and even then it does not work well.. While I know it's desired behavior, the module simply doesn't work well, and for me and my clients I would prefer a FULLY functioning module than one that only works partially..

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Originally Posted by KarZan

I've installed this mod also. After a while and testing I figured out that the stock by attributes module MUST be Stock by Attributes 1.4.9 by niestudio. With that combination it works quite well. Except for some small problems.

Firstly I found out that there is a problem with attribute images. If you have only one attribute on a product the images wont show.

Secondly it seems that gift vouchers can not be ordered alone. I am not quite sure if this was caused by Dynamic Dropdown or Stock by Attributes mod since I installed them at the same time.

Thirdly if you delete an order (say customer resturns stuff) and want to also return the stock it does not work correctly. This might be because of Stock by Attributes is not working as it should.

Does anyone have any solution for attribute images or for the voucher problem?

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Maybe I did something wrong since I could not get it to work with any other version of SBA. Anyhow I agree with the fact that this is not a well done mod. But since I do not have time to rewrite it (with my capabilities it would just take too long :smile: ) and for now this functionality is enough and there is no other mod with similar behaviour (sequential selections).

If I get to the situation that more than two attributes is required I think I have to consider another approach. For now I am not doing this as a profession but helping my daughter with her webshop so there are only limited number of attributes in use.

But still I would like to get the attribute images to work with products with one attribute. If no one has found the solution yet I have no other possibility but to dig in to this problem my self :shocking:

So after solving this problem for the 2nd time I figured I should post my solution here!

I'm using Zen 1.3.9d, with stock_by_attributes4.7 and dynamic_drop_downs_for_stock_by_attributes_1-3-4. The problem I found was with the entry in the "includes/database_tables.php" file. The instructions left out the "DB_PREFIX" part. You should add as shown below:

define('TABLE_PRODUCTS_STOCK', DB_PREFIX . 'products_with_attributes_stock');

Worked for me, hope this helps someone else out! :cool:

Pete

I found another issue with this mod that might be causing problems for some. You cannot use apostrophes in the option values. For example: "Men's" and "Women's" won't work but "Mens" and "Womens" will work.

I have installed this module on zc1.3.9f and followed as suggested by pete_srcs post #27. It works as mentioned, it's just one small thing that bothers me. I have quite long option values and I want one of the option start with option value somewhere near the middle. Before I installed this module actually I created a dummy option value and set the order number somewhere at the center and also set this value as default so that when user selected this option, they'd be somewhere at the center.
This module adds its own dummy text but I managed to remove it, however my dummy text 'value' has gone as shown in the image.
Please help me. I just need the first option to behave like this.
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Please ignore my previous post. I can workaround the issue by creating an attribute stock for my dummy option value. The problem now is on the default selected option value that overwrite the one set from Attribute Controller.