Making Attributes Manditory?

[spottedhaggis]

I have a slightly similar problem.

My client is offering purchased in specified quantities, 10 packs, 50 packs, 100 packs etc so they have attributes for each product, around 5 per product.

The client needs to be able to select multiples from these attriburts to make up the number they want to order.

Eg. Select 200 packs + 50 packs to order 250 packs.

Because of this they are setup as checkboxes, since nothing else would allow this, however, if the client just hits add to cart then it add the product, no value to it nor any numebr of items are added.

This is of course not a good thing, however by the same token I do not want to set a default to it either, more because they have 100s of products and it would take an age to do.

Can anyone help me work out how to simply dissable the add to cart button from working properly until a selection has been made, but still have the button clickable with a popup window telling them they need to make a selection.

Many thanks

[signs]

Would there be a way to make a text option madatory? So if you require a certain text field to be filled in, they couldn't add to cart unless it was?

[Ajeh]

On the Attribute is a checkbox for:

Attribute Required for Text:
No Yes

[signs]

Thanks, Ajeh, but it's not working for us.

We have a 1.3.8a cart and when we require the text attribute via the attribute controller, it has no effect whatsoever.

Example:
http://designmycart.com/1-column-bis...ness-p-79.html

The "Store URL (Required)" field. You can leave it empty and still add to cart.

We do have the mod "Improved Attributes Controller" installed, would that make any difference? The radio button to make text required is still there and it's checked.

[gjh42]

You would probably get more information in the support thread for that mod, sisce it changes some standard functionality.

[signs]

Thanks Glen, but there doesn't appear to be a specific support thread for the Improved Attributes Controller after doing a search here. There isn't one listed with the add-on description on the download page either.

The only thing that mod was meant to do was improve the way the attribute choices are displayed in the admin dropdown boxes on the attribute controller page:

"This module changes the way the dropdown select fields work on the Attributes Controller Page. The content of the second dropdown (option values) is now dependant upon the content of the first dropdown (option names), so you will only see values that apply to the selected option name. Javascript is used to avoid having the page reload when you make that selection in the first box. "

So I can't see where it would affect the radio button for making text madatory.

Edited to add:
I just remembered that I have that mod installed on my other cart (which is a 1.3.0.2 cart) and I just tested making text mandatory there. It worked just fine with that same mod installed.

[Ajeh]

I am not sure if this is related to the tabbed add on that you are using or not ...

You can try to switch to Classic Template to see if it works, if so, that would help narrow down the problem ...

[gjh42]

OK then, that sounds like an odd problem and I have no idea why it would be doing that.

[signs]

I tried out the classic green template temporarily and same thing. Making text required has no effect.

The fact that it works on my other cart and not on this one bugs me. Both carts have nearly all the same mods installed so I have no clue what's going on.

We've gotten along all this time without being able to require text fields, so I guess it will suffice. As you can see we dealt with it as best we can by putting "(required)" after the option name, but some folks continue to ignore that. It would just be nice if it actually worked.

And I hate not being able to figure stuff out.

[Ajeh]

Turn off the SEO stuff for giggles and grins ... anything?

I do not believe bug fix #24 will do anything for this ... but what the heck:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=697924