Quote Originally Posted by fbroz View Post
Thanks for the quick reply mc12345678!

I am working on upgrading an older site (zc 1.3.8a) and running into some issues with SBA and dynamic dropdowns. On the old site, the Option Names are all of Option Type "Dropdown". It seems like your guidance in previous posts (such as https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....90#post1300190) is to use Option Type "SBA Select List (Dropdown) Basic". Should I switch to this Option Type if I want to use this modern software? I see from your previous reply that "Dropdown" is the right choice for me since all of my option names will have more than one option value.

That issue aside, the dropdowns behave strangely. I have Enable Dynamic Dropdowns set to '2' and Product Info Multiple Attribute Display Plugin set to 'sba_sequenced_dropdowns' in the dynamic dropdowns configuration. Here is a link to a product set up with 'Dropdown':

https://www.tokyopenshop.com/shop2/i...products_id=18

and here is one set up with 'SBA Select List (Dropdown) Basic':

https://www.tokyopenshop.com/shop2/i...products_id=77

The page loads slowly to populate the dropdowns, and then the first dropdown list items all say "Back Order:" for some reason. Adding to the cart fails also. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
You can actually use either of the dropdown options. The sba version adds features not made available through the standard dropdown, though currently those features are not necessary if using multiple attributes and/or dynamic dropdowns.

As to the back order: "feature", it appears that some code in the includes/classes/pad_sba_sequenced.php file was prematurely incorporated to the files... I have a similar display on my test site depending on a few settings. The idea is/was that either product would be displayed as out-of-stock or as on back order depending on if checkout was allowed with 0 or negative stock. Further that the word(s) would be easily modifiable (language variable instead of hard-coded as it is now) to something else as desired...

Trying to look back at what "version" of the file would be considered stable to apply now, versus possibly waiting a couple of hours for resolution.

Still good though to correct validation issues, which are typically the problem with dynamic dropdowns, but in this case it's not you, it's me... (yes sounds like a break up, but I will find the intended solution to the issue.)