Quote Originally Posted by DivaVocals View Post
The way this is designed if a product variant is out of stock it WILL NOT show up in the dropdown.. ONLY the variants which HAVE STOCK quantities associated with them will show in the dropdowns.. Is THIS what you are asking about??? (like jeking, I am not clear about what it is you are asking or saying the module is or is NOT doing..)
From my read of the discussion, I think the above summarizes "the issue". I think the misunderstanding of the plugin showing variants with a stock of zero originated from the discussion of the missing type casting done for quantity in the code provided for ZC 1.5.3 that was in essence pointed out and really only discovered when a value of zero is entered.

As for the possibility of showing variants or at least combinations of variants that are out-of-stock/quantity of zero, I believe there is another plugin that is considered compatible with this version of SBA that can provide a sort of cross reference (table like structure having rows and columns) for a combination of two attributes at a time. I believe this would present attributes/combinations of attributes that might otherwise be available and reflect that they are out-of-stock or similar. I think it is called grid by attribute or something similar. It may be that the store owner would need to add text into the description to identify the attributes that normally might be available and indicate that those missing from the list are not available or some similar wording. It's a thought/patch to the programming side.

Fyi and fwiw, the way that this plugin has been rewritten, unless every desirable combination of attributes is populated in the applicable database, a blanket, this is what is possible type query would result in a huge list as a result of the added functionality of being able to stock all the combinations of attributes associated with a product. (At least for a product that starts to have say three or more attributes with multiple values in each attribute name.)