Attribute Blues

[netwiser]

Greetings Zenners. I am hoping this post makes sense, and that someone out there can maybe help!

I have Attribute Blues!

I have mastered setting attributes for downloadable products, now I have another dilemma.

Some of the products are either a multifile download, Or can be purchased on CD.

How do I set up the attributes for such a product. I want the download files to be automatically selected, but I also want an option for purchasing the cd, this attribute when selected needs to add a small charge to the price of the product, and also when the purchaser selects the CD purchase option, I want to have the download links eliminated.

So .. If I buy the product, and select CD .. then I check out, it does shipping calcs .. etc.. I get no download links.

If I buy, and do NOT select the CD option, then I get the download links, and no shipping is calculated.

Make sense? Can Zen handle this? Or Do I need 1 product for download, and another for CD ?

Thanks in advance…

Bob LaPlante

[netwiser]

Hello,

Hmmm has no one ever had this problem?

Bob

[Ajeh]

The difficulty is that the downloads are on 2 attributes and the CD on a 3rd ...

But, you need the 2 download attributes -- or -- the CD ... but not a combination on both ...

Because of this you would have to set up the Download attributes separate from the CD attribute and rely on the customer to actually select the Downloads as you cannot have them pre-set for the customer or they would get them with the CD ...

Is there a problem in offering this as:

Download 1
Download 2

Without CD
With CD

Where the customer always gets the Downloads? This might be able to work, but I have to test the shipping on it ...

Or, you could make these separate Products and use something like cross sell or X-Sell to help the customer find the matching product in either format ...