3 Questions, Easy Ones. :)

Hi Everyone,

I have a three questions:

First, here is a link to a product in the store.

1. Can I remove the "Larger Image" function?

2. Can I have the "Contact Us" Link on the right be linked directly to an email address so it opens up in Outlook, or whichever program they use?

3. The product options. You can see, Name, School Colors, Birth Stone Color, Charm, Dangle Birthstone, and Size. I need these to change.

Here is what I need:

Bracelets For Students
Name (BOX)
School Colors (BOX)
Charm (Drop down)
Dangle Birthstone
Size

Bracelets For Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers
Name or Nickname
Birthstone Colors
Charm
Dangle Birthstone
Size


As you can see, I need the same options for two different "people" (i guess that is the correct thing to say).

Also, can I move around the "Measuring" section below the product options??

Thanks in advance!!!!

1. Yes, remove the links from the template files and you should be fine. Alternatively you can overwrite the whole show image block of code and simply use your own <img> html tag to display the product in any shape or form you like.

2. for contact us link, make use of the ez-pages sidebox and insert an external link. Then make it show 'mailto:<email address>'- done!

3. not sure.

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Originally Posted by RiemenDesign

Hi Everyone,

I have a three questions:

First, here is a link to a product in the store.

1. Can I remove the "Larger Image" function?

2. Can I have the "Contact Us" Link on the right be linked directly to an email address so it opens up in Outlook, or whichever program they use?

3. The product options. You can see, Name, School Colors, Birth Stone Color, Charm, Dangle Birthstone, and Size. I need these to change.

Here is what I need:

Bracelets For Students
Name (BOX)
School Colors (BOX)
Charm (Drop down)
Dangle Birthstone
Size

Bracelets For Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers
Name or Nickname
Birthstone Colors
Charm
Dangle Birthstone
Size


As you can see, I need the same options for two different "people" (i guess that is the correct thing to say).

Also, can I move around the "Measuring" section below the product options??

Thanks in advance!!!!

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#3 - accomplished using product attributes

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Originally Posted by clydejones

#3 - accomplished using product attributes

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Thank you.

Can you explain further on how I would do this? Thanks.

Start with https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=57

Essentially, you want the labels for the inputs/selects to change based on the intended wearer of the product. The only way of knowing that (short of installing a telepathy module) is to have the user select an overall category to then view the products available for it.

It would be possible but very code-intensive to swap out label text based on the category the product is being displayed in, but far easier would be to copy/duplicate the products into the alternate categories, and make a new set of option names with associated option values to replace the originals.

There is one case where the options you want to present are different, not just the label: School Colors vs. Birthstone. This reinforces the duplicate products track as opposed to one product differently presented (unless you are intending for the user to type in birthstone colors).

For moving the Measuring part of the description to below the attributes, you could use the Customizing Product Description Text Formatting on Category Page thread and some of the other threads referenced there.

I am still confused on how to get this done. I need product options for "Students" and "Moms etc". The product options have the same name. I just talked with my client and they are insisting it get done like this.

I appreciate the replies but I am still confused.

I appreciate anyone's help.

Thanks,

John

If you really want what you first described:

Bracelets For Students
Name (BOX)
School Colors (BOX)
Charm (Drop down)
Dangle Birthstone
Size

Bracelets For Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers
Name or Nickname
Birthstone Colors
Charm
Dangle Birthstone
Size

then the option names for the fields that differ will also differ. The option names that remain the same between the categories don't need to be duplicated. I don't see any conflict.

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Originally Posted by gjh42

If you really want what you first described:

Bracelets For Students
Name (BOX)
School Colors (BOX)
Charm (Drop down)
Dangle Birthstone
Size

Bracelets For Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers
Name or Nickname
Birthstone Colors
Charm
Dangle Birthstone
Size

then the option names for the fields that differ will also differ. The option names that remain the same between the categories don't need to be duplicated. I don't see any conflict.

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So this will work if I use the same option twice on the page??

Thanks again for your help.

Oh, are you saying that you want each product info page to have a section for Students and a section for Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers?
That starts getting complicated. I thought you were going to go with the suggestion of making a category for students and a category for moms etc., with a duplicated list of products with their attributes modified for each category.

Yeah each product info page will have all that on there.

I don't mind coding this. I just need to know where and how to start.

Could you direct me where to go? I REALY appreciate your help.

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Originally Posted by gjh42

Oh, are you saying that you want each product info page to have a section for Students and a section for Moms, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters and Godmothers?
That starts getting complicated. I thought you were going to go with the suggestion of making a category for students and a category for moms etc., with a duplicated list of products with their attributes modified for each category.

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Actually, is what you were suggesting the same thing really?

LINK

I can have two options with the same name..one just has a different ID number. This would work, right?

How can I add my own text in there to clarify which options they are choosing? Is there a file for this?

Thanks again. You are a great help.

My suggestion was not at all the same organizational system. You currently have one set of bracelets, for which you want to have customers enter a completely different set of choices in the product info page depending on the intended wearer. This has the potential to be very sloppy, with customers entering information in both sets of boxes, perhaps conflicting, perhaps thinking they are ordering a bracelet for the student and one for Mom at the same time... and people will occasionally do just that if it is possible, count on it. Forcing only one set of inputs to be accepted will require real custom coding, if you want to do that; and you would have to distinguish which set is intended in some cases.

I suggest you make a top category for students and a top category for moms etc., with the same list of bracelets in each category. There would be the necessary differences in wording and inputs, and you could tune the description for each to the wearers.

Alternately, you could make one main category with each bracelet design being a subcategory. Each bracelet subcat would have two essentially identical products, one labeled for students and one labeled for moms etc.

You could even have everything in just one category, with doubled products, so you would see in the listing Bali for Students and Bali for Moms.