Multiple Products with customization percentages

[eddierosenthal]

I have a product which is customized by the customer using both choices of product and their percentages for example:
product1 at 25% + product2 at 35% + product3 at 40%.
The total order then is really three products that are re-created in the warehouse to specific requests.
I'd like to be able to give the customer the list of products that are custom blendable ( there are really about 6 of those), and each have a checkbox or drop down for choosing each products' percentages.
So I'd like to create a screen that might look like this:
1 [1-100] drop down
2 [1-100] drop down
3 [1-100] drop down
4 [1-100] drop down
5 [1-100] drop down
6 [1-100] drop down
and have the customer be able to choose any of the 6 products with their percentages of them.

I have a category called custom blending to put these 6 products in.
However I am not sure how to build the interface for them, even using attributes and values for them, because they would be listed separatly and the customer would have to choose to go to each product on a different page and use their individual drop downs....
any ideas?

[kobra]

You are talking very generically....
Are these totally seperate products?
Are they related in any way?
What do you mean by percertages? or is this a quantity of 1-100?
What do you mean by blendable?

Do you have this set up? even if not functioning correctly

Post a url and a bit more descriptive explanation

[eddierosenthal]

i have the cart set up at www.aquadine.com/catalog
i have a 'custom blend' category there.
I have created a form outside the cart to use in case i cannot solve the problem using the cart directly. The form is located at
http://www.aquadine.com/duraflake-custom-blend.html
I am trying to replicate the form, somewhat, within the cart...
thanks for your reply
eddie

[kobra]

OK...I must be dense....I looked at your html page and the cart page test product and still do not know what it is you are selling - I got it, that it is fish food and I got that it is, or appears to be, a blend but can not determine from what you have - exactly what it is that I can purchase

As a 3rd party observation this should be important...as any blend should total 100% So what would happen if I selected from your 6 options and all at 5% or eash option at 30%??? Not fully clear what I can order

[eddierosenthal]

you and i don't order much fish food so i guess neither one of us could exactly define the problem. From what I understand, fish like blends of their food the same way I like some blended coffees ( a bit of madagasgar, with a hint of chickory perhaps?).
Each of the foods listed in the form can be sliced up for the whole. Yes it should add up to 100 percent, and no I have not programmed into it to figure out if it all adds up.
The point of this question is not how to program it to add up and correct the customer of his or her mistake, but to figure out how zen cart can handle the problem of this type of product: several products that are components of the whole "UBER PRODUCT' as it were...
I simply want the user to pick several components, tell me what percentages to apply, and order it.

[kobra]

If checking is not required and there is not a base to work from....

You can place up 6 attributes as text box entries with instructions as to enter the % of each desired (and this should add up to be 100%) or if there is a base of say component "A" at 100% you could offer replacement additions in %'s of the 6 items

I take it that this is fully customer selected and not standard blends from the nature of what you have posted