Quote Originally Posted by jagall View Post
thank you again mc12345678 for taking such time in looking at this for me. When I put 5 in the prod unit qty, everything as before multiplied in units of 5, I'll do it again and you can see what I mean, the quantities as you say can be changed in the shopping cart and no warning is giving either. With the plugin it adds the attributes as single products if you like, the checkbox attributes was more defined in ways I think.
Gotcha. So, I have two concepts that would address this by a template modification to accomplish either of the below, or possibly a functions file modification (or of course a combination of the two).

There is a template modification that *is* in this forum but may also be in the instructions (been a spell since I've looked at that aspect) that will make the quantity box effectively 1 without allowing the customer to add multiple quantity of groups from the product information page, but would allow modification on the shopping cart. A next modification would be to allow adding multiple groupings but start with a quantity of 1 instead of the unit/min mix that ZC offers its standard product.

The function modification (a core file edit) would be to return a value of 1 if the product in question has a grid attribute instead of this unit quantity.

A combination style would be to use a new function that is called by a modified template file when there is a unit/min related requirement such that the option could maybe be controlled by some database setting...

As to checkboxes... unfortunately generally speaking they are problematic and best used for a two state situation such as giftwrap or not. It can be factored in as a "quantity" style product, but that requires additional inspection upon submission and handling to identify the errant condition. Not saying it's hard, just more involved.