why can't I make a radio button mandatory?

[trillian]

I have read a few threads about this and tried everything and just cannot get ths to work.

I have a product that comes in several different variations and only need to select one.

Currently I have one option name and 6 option values in the form of radio buttons.

The problem is a customer can hit 'add to cart' without making a selection, so then we have no
idea what they want.

I can make one of the options mandatory but then that could be worse because if they
don't pay attention to the selection we will end up shipping them the wrong version.

All I need is a setting so that at least one option has to be selected before they can
add to cart.

I thought that's what the red 'required' button did but apparently not.

Nothing I do with the yes/no settings on those buttons will get what I need.

How can I do this ? One would think it should be very simple.

[Ajeh]

Add a 7th Option Value for:
Pick one
what do you want
make a selection
Pick the right size
Pick the right color
etc. etc.

Set it as Default YES, Display Only YES and Sort Order 0 ...

Now, they have to pick a valid choice and cannot pick the default choice ...

[trillian]

Cool ! It works :)

Many Thanks,
Sheryl

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that this worked for you ...

[Shane78]

hi, i have tried this and it didnt work, i susspect it is something i have done wrong tho...

makes no diff when 'required' isselected

what am i doing wrong?

[Shane78]

image for post above

[Ajeh]

From the image it looks right but I cannot see anything beyond that from just an image ...

If you switch to the Classic Template, does it work?

If you are using SEO/rewrites turn those off ... does it work?

Do you have some other add ons?

[Shane78]

Hi Ajeh,

thanks for replying, i have a handful of mods, inc the SSU mod. i turned that off and reverted to the default template. still the same...




however i played and noticed that it only doesnt work when a customer is loged in. but works when viewing the site in guest mode..(not logged in)

i guess i might have broken files... which folders/files should i replace with a clean download ... so i can test & report back

[Fez-o Joe]

Nice answer Ajeh, but I have a quick question to that effect... I'm not a SQL maven, you wouldn't happen to have a quickie to update all the attributes for an option to default (radio button) we have a choice of three, and none - and I like the none having to be the default but didn't know about the 'default', just read it here and we have 100+ products.

Something like 'where attrib = 'venting' and value='none' set default' or ?

Just curious.

[Ajeh]

You need to find the options_id and options_values_id in the products_attributes table for the Attribute for None ...

Backup your database ...

UPDATE products_attributes SET attributes_default = 1 WHERE options_id = XX and options_values_id = YY;

where XX is the options_id and YY is the options_values_id ...