Dependent Attributes: To specify a charity

[LilleyPadGifts]

Has anyone made a add-on, plug-in, whatever-ya-wanna-call-it ... to allow for Dependent Attributes?
I found some posts regarding this but they were from 2009 and before.

[mc12345678]

Has anyone made a add-on, plug-in, whatever-ya-wanna-call-it ... to allow for Dependent Attributes?
I found some posts regarding this but they were from 2009 and before.

Stock by attributes offers choices of values dependent on previous selection when using dropdowns, with showing only the selections that remain available going down that path (or out-of-stock if so desired to show). I believe there is a commercial version that does something similar.

[lat9]

You can see a demo of one of those commercial ones here.

[LilleyPadGifts]

Ok, but that affects what is shown below....the images... right? I would be using it to choose text for a field that would print on the order.
I don't want to change what they see, meaning the attributes wouldn't change what products they see. Does that make sense?

[lat9]

It sounds like you don't need dependent-attributes, if your attributes are "simply" to supply those text inputs to allow the customer to customize their product.

[LilleyPadGifts]

Well, I was hoping it would allow a long drop list to be more managable. My customers give 20% of their purchases to a team, charity, cause, that is preregistered on my site. Youth Sports alone causes the list to be a mile long, so I was hoping this plug-in would allow the list to be easier to get through. It would allow sub-cats, sub-sub cats....etc....

[mc12345678]

So if you had a series of options broken down like: state, county, city, school, selection of each in progress would populate the next with a group of entries that applied to the selection of all previous entries.

It's a non-stock related item it seems (unless there ends up being some maximum that can be donated per year to any one group or from any one person), but for example, if state is chosen, let's say Illinois, then the list of cities/counties would be presented that fit that option such as Peoria, then maybe "school grade" or something like that and if college, then the school of Bradley University. But go back and change state to another selection then all the options below it get "reset".

That's how I see implementation anyways based on the description.

[LilleyPadGifts]

Yes, its only function is TEXT on the order that is printed or invoice received by customer.
My site currently can do that, but its the overwhelming size of the drop list as we receive more registered groups. Here is what it might look like just as an example :
Sports
Baseball
California
Fullerton Little League
The Orioles
Tim A
Johnny B
Mike C
Football
Oregon
Portland Pop Warner
Bobcats
Steve V
Mike S
Blake R
This is a MANDATORY field... meaning something must be chosen before they can progress to either more shopping or shopping cart. It can NOT be a blank field that they have to fill in. That is NOT a option. It won't be done, or it will be done incorrectly and then I have to spend time trying to find out who the money is supposed to go to.

[LilleyPadGifts]

I can't seem to get it coded right to post it so that it shows the levels as I have typed them but hopefully you can figure it out

[lat9]

If that super-long-list of selections is going to be associated with every product you sell, the database overhead will get very large very fast.

Consider a (single for now) dropdown list that contains 50 items applied to 100 products; that will require 5000 individual attribute records in your database.

That functionality could be provided via custom-coding that recognizes the "Choose a sponsor" dropdown selection (possibly nested) and adds some special dependent-selection jQuery/javascript to your products' information pages.