"Stock by Attributes" (version 1.5.3). This MOD is ONLY for v1.5.1 ..whaddda?

[mc12345678]

hmm....well here we may run into a problem. The live site (1.3.8a) is submitting feeds to google merchant center and is using attributes to fullfill googles' product identifier requirements (which are also hidden on product info page with the flexible attributes module).

I ended up installing SBA module on a development site and set up some attributes which work nicely. I really like how the dropdown boxes work and the variant quantities display alongside each variant. I added two dropdowns, each with several variants. I did notice though that I couldn't change from dropdown to bullet (or checkbox etc. when experimenting).

I did find that when I added a read only attribute (for google merchant center feed) Ex: option - gender, value - female, the other attributes/variants (option names color and size) don't work, saying out of stock....so this is probably what you were advising about or maybe a configuration problem on my part?

A little of both... See, one doesn't "add" a read only attribute... Variants are built off of the available attributes... If the product has more attributes than the variant, then it shows up as out-of-stock (or at least that is what I expect because that scenario is not one that is yet incorporated into the expected program flow.)

In your case, need to build variants that include all attributes together as a single variant, not all selectable product information as a variant and then just add the read only attribute to the product...

So the mix part I saw in my testing just now was that Dynamic Dropdowns doesn't just display read only attributes. It makes them an item that must be selected... Sort of defeats the read only part... But, it doesn't force an out-of-stock condition...

The way I built my test product was to select multiple attributes-combo for all attributes and provide some quantity even if it is zero. I then was able to select the various options and see what the total stock was for the chosen options. There are a few scenarios that I didn't try and probably need addressing, but at least a read only attribute was possible to have...