Adding a size attribute

[emilfalcon]

Also, I need to add a "hidden" attribute to some of my products. The store in question offers many rings, but I need to be able to sort them by a "stone" category, that should also be pre-set (as opposed to the size attribute which needs to be selected by the user) and displayed on the product info page as text (something like "Stone type: Topaz", right under the product image).

I don't actually want to make this a category that appears in the sidebar but I do want to be able to search by it and list, for example, all the products that have a particular stone in it.

Any idea how to do this? Many thanks in advance for your help!!

[gjh42]

You have to go back and add each value one at a time in Attributes Controller. When there is more than one, the radiobutton will change to a dropdown.

Once you have this set up properly for one product, you can copy sets of attributes to others in bulk.

Unfortunately, there is not a way to search by attributes at present. One of the attribute mods may do this; search in Downloads.

[emilfalcon]

Thanks for your help! How would you then recommend I go about listing all the products with a certain attribute set? (in this example, all the products with attribute "stone" set to "Topaz")? Is there a way to make hidden categories that can be linked to but don't actually show up in the menu/sideboxes?

[gjh42]

You can hide a particular set of categories in the categories menu. See Howto: NOT list category on sidebox ? for an example.

[emilfalcon]

Thanks again!...Also, is it possible to set attributes to all the items in a certain category in one go without actually setting them 1 by 1 for each unique item?

[gjh42]

"Once you have this set up properly for one product, you can copy sets of attributes to others in bulk."
You may need to have one attribute in each product so the bulk copy feature can access it... check the available controls, and look in the FAQs for copy attribute.