Attributes HOW-TO

**Kim** · 1 Aug 2005, 04:02 PM

Quantity (inventory) tracking by size (attribute) is not available at this time.

**Ajeh** · 1 Aug 2005, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by poosk@Aug 1 2005, 05:30 AM
sorry can't find what I'm looking for. this topic has too many pages... there should be a search function for the topics like this.

anyway how can I set the quantities of the different sizes.. lets say I have a tshirt and I have 10 S, 15 M, 15 L and 5 XL sizes. How do I get the quantities right.

The define for the Starting At is located in:

/includes/languages/english.php

define('TEXT_BASE_PRICE','Starting at: ');

There is also a switch for this ...
it is located per Product Type under the Catalog ... Product Types ... Edit Layout

Show Starting At text on Price

**Kayla** · 1 Aug 2005, 09:43 PM

Thanks Ajeh! You are a rock star! I KNEW I had turned it off but couldn't find it again for the life of me. Thanks again!

**Ajeh** · 2 Aug 2005, 12:05 AM

Thanks for letting us know you are back on track and just needed to turn on the Attributes Switch for the Starting At text ... :)

**mitch_j** · 2 Aug 2005, 09:04 AM

Sorry if this is a repeat question but I haven't been able to find an answer so far...

I have entered my option names and option values with sort orders, but when they appear on the products page, they are ordered by name instead of the sort order I specified. I found a couple of options under Configuration->Product Info but changing these makes no difference. Please help!

Also of some annoyance, when adding attributes to products, the option values are also sorted by name which makes it quite a jumbled list to be picking from, can I sort these by their option name?

Thanks,
Mitchell

**poosk** · 2 Aug 2005, 10:20 AM

Originally posted by Kim@Aug 1 2005, 03:02 PM
Quantity (inventory) tracking by size (attribute) is not available at this time.

are you really serious there's no way to do this?! Do I have to make a different product from everysize?!

**Ajeh** · 2 Aug 2005, 03:47 PM

Originally posted by mitch_j@Aug 2 2005, 03:04 AM
Sorry if this is a repeat question but I haven't been able to find an answer so far...

I have entered my option names and option values with sort orders, but when they appear on the products page, they are ordered by name instead of the sort order I specified. I found a couple of options under Configuration->Product Info but changing these makes no difference. Please help!

Also of some annoyance, when adding attributes to products, the option values are also sorted by name which makes it quite a jumbled list to be picking from, can I sort these by their option name?

Thanks,
Mitchell

If you use the Default Sort order on the Option Values, you can, after adding in your attributes, just hit the Update To Default Sort Order ...

On the listing of the Drop Down for the Option Value, currently the list is done by Option Name, Option Value

In a future update this will be changing to have just the Option Value for the selected Option Name showing to make this easier.

The advantage of the Default Sort order on the Option Values is that at any time you can update the whole store and have the values in the correct order.

**Ajeh** · 2 Aug 2005, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by poosk@Aug 2 2005, 04:20 AM
are you really serious there's no way to do this?! Do I have to make a different product from everysize?!

Stock/Attributes will be out in v1.4

This is not an available feature at this time in Zen Cart.

**mitch_j** · 3 Aug 2005, 01:05 AM

Originally posted by Ajeh@Aug 2 2005, 02:47 PM
If you use the Default Sort order on the Option Values, you can, after adding in your attributes, just hit the Update To Default Sort Order ...

On the listing of the Drop Down for the Option Value, currently the list is done by Option Name, Option Value

In a future update this will be changing to have just the Option Value for the selected Option Name showing to make this easier.

The advantage of the Default Sort order on the Option Values is that at any time you can update the whole store and have the values in the correct order.

Thanks, I din't see that button up there last night, problem solved

**Ajeh** · 3 Aug 2005, 01:46 AM

Thanks for letting us know that the Update Sort to Default Sort Order helped ...

Many people miss this feature of the Option Values ...

As most products regardless of what they are would be best displayed if the Option Values were in an order that made sense ... this is a handy feature to use ...

Good luck with your site! :)