Setting an attribute to be 'Required' does not work.

[Mike D]

Thanks for the advice on the drop-downs. I'll be implementing that everywhere.

Are you using any addons for Attributes?

I'm using Flexible Attrbibutes.

I was using Dynamic Price Updater for a little bit but turned it off and haven't used it since.

[Ajeh]

Is there an On/off switch on this Flexible Attributes that you are using to see if your attributes work as they should by default without it? More or less I am looking for a way to test if there is something on your settings or template causing this or if this addon is causing problems and if you need to look into a solution for this addon ...

[Mike D]

Is there an On/off switch on this Flexible Attributes that you are using to see if your attributes work as they should by default without it? More or less I am looking for a way to test if there is something on your settings or template causing this or if this addon is causing problems and if you need to look into a solution for this addon ...

A way to just turn off Flexible Attributes doesn't jump out at me. It was one of the first add-ons I installed and I remember the required attributes working the way they should after I installed it but I did change a few settings...I'll look through the readme, see how to turn it off.

[Ajeh]

Could you go to phpMyAdmin and in your table:
configuration

do a search for the configuration_key
TEXT_PREFIX

What is the:
configuration_value

on that?

[Mike D]

Could you go to phpMyAdmin and in your table:
configuration

do a search for the configuration_key
TEXT_PREFIX

What is the:
configuration_value

on that?

I don't appear to have a TEXT_PREFIX in that table.

[Ajeh]

You should ... check one more time for:

SELECT * FROM configuration WHERE configuration_key LIKE 'TEXT_PREFIX';

[Ajeh]

NOTE: If you still cannot find it, run this in the SQL:

INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES ('Text prefix', 'TEXT_PREFIX', 'txt_', 'Prefix used to differentiate between text option values and other option values', 0, NULL, now(), now(), NULL, NULL);

and then see if things start working ...

[Mike D]

You should ... check one more time for:

SELECT * FROM configuration WHERE configuration_key LIKE 'TEXT_PREFIX';

I've attached a screen capture of the result in case I'm not doing this correctly, but it seems like I don't have a TEXT_PREFIX?

[Ajeh]

You win not there ... go ahead and add it and see what happens ...

[Ajeh]

Also, check for these settings ...
Search for the configuration_key
PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_SELECT
UPLOAD_PREFIX

If those are missing, you can fix them with:

INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Product option type Select', 'PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_SELECT', '0', 'The number representing the Select type of product option.', 0, NULL, '2007-03-19 17:57:39', '2007-03-19 17:57:39', NULL, NULL);

INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Upload prefix', 'UPLOAD_PREFIX', 'upload_', 'Prefix used to differentiate between upload options and other options', 0, NULL, '2007-03-19 17:57:39', '2007-03-19 17:57:39', NULL, NULL);

What version of Zen Cart are you using?