Turn off Quantity

[conboy]

Not sure if this has been done before.

I have a cart with products that have no limit as far as quantities able to purchase. I would like to have it so that the quantity increments just once for each product/attribute combination regardless if there is more than one combination thats the same. So each product/attribute combo only will have a quantity of 1.

Thanks in advance.

[gjh42]

What you need is to disable stock quantity functions.
In admin > Configuration > Stock,
set
Check stock level
and
Subtract stock
to false.
You may want to change other settings there, too.

[conboy]

Thanks for the reply.

Something like that.........so say if I bought a blue shirt small and then bought another blue shirt small, each item is placed as a separate item in the shopping cart instead of having the item appear once and the quantity as 2.

[gjh42]

Ok, that's not going to happen without some custom coding. If you add two identical items to the cart, they will show as qty 2 of one item - which is exactly what you would be getting. Is there a reason you want them to show twice in the cart?

[conboy]

The reason for this is that each item has a custom attribute that can only be selected once.

item + global attribute + custom attribute

The item and custom attribute cannot be repeated in the same order.

[gjh42]

I don't get it... If the item and custom attribute can't be repeated in the same order, how can you have it show twice? What do you mean by "cannot be repeated"? Are the two small blue shirts really identical, or is there something unique about each of them? If there is another attribute that is different between the two, they will show separately in the cart display.

[conboy]

The custom attribute is custom to each customer. In other words, I had to custom code zc to accommodate this feature so my custom attribute is not recognized by zc to be unique. This is part of my problem. If I could be pointed to the code in zc that states that either the attribute is unique or has been selected already, that would be a great help.

Thanks.

[conboy]

Alright...I'm reaching here.........

Could I have my custom attribute populate a dynamic dropdown at the product_info page and have zencart recognize it as being a zc attribute? (i.e. treat it as being unique in the cart.)

I know it seems odd, but quantity does not matter in my case. The quantity can run in the background and not effect the clients UE.

Thanks.

[gjh42]

There may be a nomenclature issue here.
If you have an "attribute" that you have defined, ZC will treat it as just another attribute, which if it is different between two otherwise identical items, will make them display separately in the shopping cart.
If you have created a new field for the product type (outside of the attribute structure), that is not the sort of thing that ZC expects the customer to modify, and it will not distinguish between different choices without extra setup work.
A link to see what you have would make it easier to advise, and understand what you want.

[conboy]

Here's a visual to hopefully help out.....



So even though the product and attributes for these 3 items are the same, the applicant name is not. My clients would need to see this information for teh next step in my application.

Solution would be to either have each of the applicants names listed out or to have each item listed out in the shopping cart.

I thought he latter would be the easiest to accomplish. Now Im thinking to list out each applicants name from the database.

Thanks!