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I don't think you understood what I was asking.
If you have 50 red balls 50 green balls and 50 white balls it's going to say you have 150 of them. Someone orders 50 red balls and now you have 100. The problem with this module is since it shows you still have stock they can order an item that is sold out. So since you have 100 balls left even though there are no red ones they could order 100 of them if they wanted to because it just says you have 100 and not 0 red 50 green 50 white.
That is what happens w/ Zen Cart as is. This module changes it so that it will check the stock based upon the attributes. There is a contribution by Milosh that will do the same based upon only one attribute per product. This module can handle products w/ multiple attributes.
As an aside, it seems to me that if you use this module it makes sense to turn off, in admin, the option of showing how many are in stock because it is misleading to the customer.
HTH,
Audra
Why would one choose to let someone purchase something that is out of stock. In the end it would only serve to frustrate the buyer. If you show the numbers or not it doesn't stop someone from ordering something you don't have.
As I said, that was just an aside.Quote:
Originally posted by greenteagod@Dec 14 2005, 03:04 PM
If you show the numbers or not it doesn't stop someone from ordering something you don't have.
The meat of the issue here is what I said originally:
Customers can be prevented from checking out w/ out of stock items by choosing that option in the admin area:
Configuration->Stock->Allow Checkout
That prevents customers from checking out when the stock quantity is zero with or without this module.
Without this module it will look only at that total number in stock. In your example #150. The setting would be useless as you stated.
With a module that tracks inventory by attribute you would have entered into your inventory 50 red, 50 green, 50 white. When Zen looks to see what the stock level is for red balls it will see 50, not 150. When there are zero red balls left, if you have configured the settings noted above, the customer will not be able to check out if there is a red ball in their cart.
::frust
Audra
After a little more troubleshooting I have determined that this is not the problem.Quote:
Originally posted by audradh@Dec 14 2005, 08:52 AM
I sell clothing, so my standard 2 variants are size and color.
Often I have an item in stock only in one color, but in multiple sizes.
Size is a dropdown w/ multiple variants.
Color shows in the catalog as a radio button (standard default for dropdown if only one variant is given), and the value has been marked as the default in attributes.
In this case, the items are showing as out of stock.
Any thoughts now?
TIA,
Audra
Now I am pretty sure that the problem is thus:
The module is working for all but one manufacturer. When products from this manufacturer are order they show up as out of stock despite having quantitiies entered in the product by attribute stock.
The module was iniitlally working, but now is not.
I have subsequently installed this module:
Column Layout Product Listing for Zen Cart v 1.2
Could this be the trouble?
Audra
Another change:
It is not the manufacturer either. I found a product from a different manufacturer that is not working correctly as well. I can't figure out the difference between the few products that are working correctly and the rest!
They seem to span
categories,
manufacturers,
quantity in stock,
with model# and without model#
2 choosable attributes vs one chooseable and one default
Any ideas about what other differences I might be able to look at?
Audra
OK, I have found the responsible variant and fixed the problem, but I don't know why it happenned.
I had a text only/read only attribute attached to a lot of my products. It was the products w/ this option name that were not being accurately accounted in the inventory.
I think it could have been one of two things: either the text only/read only nature of the attribute option was a problem or the fact that this added a 3rd attribute to the product was the trouble.
I don't have time to test it out right now (getting my inventory back up and running took more time than my kids had allotted me as it is!), but I will try and check it out later if nobody else can shed light on it before then.
I don't remeber da'fonz saying that the module could only handle 2 attributes, but I may be mistaken.
HTH someone,
Audra :)
other problems:
If I set the attributes as Multi-select, and want to order 2 pcs of the items for each attributes (i.e. 3 colors, red, green, blue). Then I input 2 in the quantity box and put in the shopping cart.
I suppose that it will show a quantity with total 6pcs in the shopping cart but it only shows 2 pcs and can't distinguish the quantity among the 3 colors.
Besides, it is better to show the quantity besides the attribute on the product_info page.
I believe it was the text only/read only nature of the attribute. It works just fine with 3 dropdown selects and the code should support an unlimited number of attributes.Quote:
Originally posted by audradh@Dec 15 2005, 02:45 PM
OK, I have found the responsible variant and fixed the problem, but I don't know why it happenned.
I had a text only/read only attribute attached to a lot of my products. It was the products w/ this option name that were not being accurately accounted in the inventory.
I think it could have been one of two things: either the text only/read only nature of the attribute option was a problem or the fact that this added a 3rd attribute to the product was the trouble.
I don't have time to test it out right now (getting my inventory back up and running took more time than my kids had allotted me as it is!), but I will try and check it out later if nobody else can shed light on it before then.
I don't remeber da'fonz saying that the module could only handle 2 attributes, but I may be mistaken.
HTH someone,
Audra :)
That doesn't work...pretend you have this on your pageQuote:
Originally posted by xingxing@Dec 15 2005, 05:05 PM
Besides, it is better to show the quantity besides the attribute on the product_info page.
Size
Big - 40
Light - 20
Color
Green - 30
Blue - 30
So how many of each variant do you have?