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

[DivaVocals]

Doesn't matter if the questions as perceived by the asker could apply or not, the simple question was what were they? An answer could be, not allowed by forum policy to discuss, could be if said program can do the following... Some combination of the two or something else.

There is/was no interpretation of the question necessary by a third party. The question was clear... If there was concern about the potential response (no longer expected yet anticipated) then clarification about permissable response would have been appropriate, again something I didn't see as necessary. I believe the OP intelligent and more than likely knowledgeable enough to answer on their own behalf, to ask questions about what they are allowed to post if that were indeed an issue, or provide some response via PM if there was something permissable to state, but not so in the forum.

Regardless the question still stands.

Gonna say this, and then I really am done belaboring this any further.. if the question, and what you wanted to know was sooooo CLEAR, then the conversation that followed would not have been necessary..

Communication is only CLEAR when the folks engaged in it reach the same understanding... That DID NOT happen here, and yet you still want to insist that it did.. So to that I say simply this..

OKAY.. as you wish.. Carry on..

[RodG]

Does anybody have a working sample site using the Stock by Attributes with ZC 1.5? Please, I need to give an answer to my client ASAP about the possibility of what they want.

ZenCart V1.5.4
Stock by Attribute 1.5.4 (circa Oct 24th 2014)

http://www.plussizedclothing.com.au/

As I mentioned several months ago though, I needed to perform a manual merge of the files.

I understand that the commercial offering (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) is a good/viable alternative. The site owner and I gave it serious consideration, but they rejected it on the basis that they are 'in too deep' with SBA and they aren't willing to run any risk of messing up the stock counts of their 1000's of products (and variants).

Shame really. I was actually keen on giving the new module a closer look. Tis a shame there isn't a 'demo' site (that I'm aware of) that shows the back end.

Cheers
RodG

[DivaVocals]

I understand that the commercial offering (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) is a good/viable alternative. The site owner and I gave it serious consideration, but they rejected it on the basis that they are 'in too deep' with SBA and they aren't willing to run any risk of messing up the stock counts of their 1000's of products (and variants).

The client who's site I installed the the commercial offering (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) on was also "'in too deep' with SBA".. Want to share that the conversion tools provided with this module made this concern a non-issue.. Smooth transition..

[RodG]

Want to share that the conversion tools provided with this module made this concern a non-issue.. Smooth transition..

Thanks. Certainly worth knowing. I'll be revisiting this with my client with his next significant site update. I'm on a bit of a break from the site at the moment catching up on other projects.

Cheers
RodG

[DivaVocals]

I'm on a bit of a break from the site at the moment catching up on other projects.

I do understand that!!

[buildingblocks]

Hi

We are in the process of upgrading zen cart 1.3.8a to 1.5.4. The 1.3.8a site has an older version of stock by attributes installed. When the stock by attributes module gets upgraded to the most current version as found on github can I expect the attribute variants currently set up will stay intact in the database?

thanks

[mc12345678]

Hi

We are in the process of upgrading zen cart 1.3.8a to 1.5.4. The 1.3.8a site has an older version of stock by attributes installed. When the stock by attributes module gets upgraded to the most current version as found on github can I expect the attribute variants currently set up will stay intact in the database?

thanks

Backup. So this software is still Beta which means that it is still in a testing phase, backup. It is desirable and intended that the original backup data not be impacted, but I myself would not leave the backup possibility of data loss to an expectation or theory. I might even backup make multiple duplicate sites, back just so I could be sure that I backup the data in case backup there is a problem with the backup.

All that aside, be sure that in selecting the version to download that you get version 1.5.4 or above and currently the version in the branch mc12345678_ZC154 is the most up-to-date.

Ideally, the plugin would be attempted in a development site to ensure that there are no issues withurlive site while confirming that the upgrade happens satisfactorily.

[buildingblocks]

Backup. So this software is still Beta which means that it is still in a testing phase, backup. It is desirable and intended that the original backup data not be impacted, but I myself would not leave the backup possibility of data loss to an expectation or theory. I might even backup make multiple duplicate sites, back just so I could be sure that I backup the data in case backup there is a problem with the backup.

All that aside, be sure that in selecting the version to download that you get version 1.5.4 or above and currently the version in the branch mc12345678_ZC154 is the most up-to-date.

Ideally, the plugin would be attempted in a development site to ensure that there are no issues withurlive site while confirming that the upgrade happens satisfactorily.

Thanks. I'll be upgrading the SBA in a day or so and just wondered if anyone knew from experience with this version.


yes, backups are always done....makes life so much easier

[mc12345678]

Thanks. I'll be upgrading the SBA in a day or so and just wondered if anyone knew from experience with this version.


yes, backups are always done....makes life so much easier

So, the biggest issue with attempting to locate someone that has done the upgrade, is validating that the version on which it was successful (or not) is the same version installed on your site. There were three or four variants of SBA, some worked better at certain things than others.

Based on that history, I assume that all of your product was single attribute variants. The current version handles those well, multiple attributes still are missing a few of the equivalent functionality, but it does work.

[buildingblocks]

So, the biggest issue with attempting to locate someone that has done the upgrade, is validating that the version on which it was successful (or not) is the same version installed on your site. There were three or four variants of SBA, some worked better at certain things than others.

Based on that history, I assume that all of your product was single attribute variants. The current version handles those well, multiple attributes still are missing a few of the equivalent functionality, but it does work.

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?