Default attributes unchecking

[hubert]

Hello,

I was wondering how to manage this :
I'm dealing with pizzas, attributes are toppings, everything is ok if these are Extra-toppings but I would like to make attributes component of the pizza.
I mean that some attributes that are in the receipe already checked. Since then it's possible.
I found how to make some attributes already checked and even to make their price zero (since I'm not substracting the topping price in case of modification).

But, there's a but, I would like also the customer to be able to unckeck these because often customers are asking "Ho I wan this pizza without the ham and put some oinions instead".

If I uncheck an attribute I get an error on the checkout page.

It must be a simple function modification but where and how ?
If you know the solution I will also need the way to make these "negatives attributes" appear on the invoice and packing slip since I'm using these to pass the order to the kitchen.

Thanks for your help

Regards

Hubert

[schoolboy]

Every pizza has BASE toppings tomato paste and mozarella cheese.

Then there are the old favourites: Hawaiian, Pepperoni, Mediterranean...
... so these can be STANDARD products.

You could have a few "extras" (attributes) for each of these - toppings which are not standard to the pizza type in question.

Then you can have a "DESIGN YOUR OWN" product that has all the attributes (as check-boxes) and you can allow your customers to add whatever topping they like, so if a guy wants onions, sump-oil and engine-parts, then give him onions, sump-oil and engine-parts.

What does it matter... he's the one who's going to eat it.

[hubert]

Schoolboy,

you're right, give the customer whatever he wants, and the method you're saying is the way we're doing things today and we must agree that our customers are also web readers, and gess what ?
That's not the way a web reader thinks, he doesn't think to build his own pizza adding the toppings he wants, he wants to customize a standard pizza.

So if, as you said, we must meet our customers will, we have to find a way to answer my technical question because I cannot answer my customers
"but you know there's a way to circumvent the limits of our website",
I have to tell them
"of course sir, you can uncheck the pepperoni and add olives as you wich".

Thanks for your answer ;-)

Hubert

[schoolboy]

I do see your point... the customer does dictate how we operate, and as you say... they want to customize a standard product; not build their own!

What about this technique:

Let's say one of the STANDARD pizzas have:

HAM
OLIVES
ANCHOVIES
MUSHROOMS

Create ATTRIBUTE OPTION NAMES for each of them and make them RADIO BUTTONS.

Then, Create OPTION VALUES like this:

OPTION NAME = Ham
|_OPTION VALUE = Ham, Yes Please
|_OPTION VALUE= Ham, No Thanks

OPTION NAME = Olives
|_OPTION VALUE = Olives, Yes Please
|_OPTION VALUE = Olives, No Thanks

OPTION NAME = Anchovies
|_OPTION VALUE = Anchovies, Yes Please
|_OPTION VALUE = Anchovies, No Thanks

OPTION NAME = Mushrooms
|_OPTION VALUE = Mushrooms, Yes Please
|_OPTION VALUE = Mushrooms, No Thanks

ADD these four attributes to the appropriate pizza, and then make the "YES" button the DEFAULT button on each of them.

This means that when they call up the product, they will see that the STANDARD toppings radio buttons are all selected to YES by default... and they must click on the NO button to de-select the topping.

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UNDER that you can have your variety toppings CHECK BOXES, and they would be applied to each product based on what the STANDARD toppings are.

So... in my example above... that pizza already has HAM, OLIVES, ANCHOVIES and MUSHROOMS... so you would not have the checkboxes for those toppings, but you would have checkboxes for OTHER toppings...

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Radio YES / NO buttons for STANDARD toppings

CHECKBOXES for optional toppings

[schoolboy]

You can use the ATTRIBUTES COMMENT FIELDS to put headings above each attribute set.


EG: Above your standard toppings radio buttons you could have:

STANDARD TOPPINGS - PLEASE DE-SELECT ANY YOU DON'T WANT


EG: Above your optional toppings checkboxes you could have:

OPTIONAL TOPPINGS - PLEASE CHOOSE THOSE YOU WANT

[schoolboy]

I just built a quick test product on one of our DEV sites...

http://britefactorydev.co.uk/frost/i...products_id=47

[hubert]

Thanks you very much Scoolboy, I'll try this, and let you know.

That sounds a bright idea.

Hubert