How to hide an attribute so that it is not shown in front end

[chuckrey]

Update.... I played around with it a bit and simply deleted the following:
AND attributes_display_only != 0
seems to work for me now. If there is any reason this is not recommended, I would appreciate the input, but for my purpose seems to work fine...

Ugh.... Disregard. Not working as I thought. Still hoping for help and will continue to look for a solution.....

[mc12345678]

Upon my first read of the issue, I was wondering if using the option to allow attributes not to affect our be dependent on stock quantities would help your situation.

It's not highly discussed because it is a bit of an advanced topic but you can assign attributes to be non stock affecting/dependent based on various characteristics to various product.

Say you want all option values of an option name to always be non stock related, then that can be assigned. Want a particular option value for a particular product to be non stock dependent, then that can be so and a multitude of other variations.

Really though, it seems like this particular issue should be brought to the area most applicable which appears to be stock by Attributes.

And now that I have gone back to read the post,I stand by my original thought. It would involve disabling the "read only" characteristic and then applying the applicable sql for what you need.

In the forum that this is related to "gift wrapping" in concept and the gesture is described in post 2725 in the SBA forum.

[chuckrey]

Upon my first read of the issue, I was wondering if using the option to allow attributes not to affect our be dependent on stock quantities would help your situation.

It's not highly discussed because it is a bit of an advanced topic but you can assign attributes to be non stock affecting/dependent based on various characteristics to various product.

Say you want all option values of an option name to always be non stock related, then that can be assigned. Want a particular option value for a particular product to be non stock dependent, then that can be so and a multitude of other variations.

Really though, it seems like this particular issue should be brought to the area most applicable which appears to be stock by Attributes.

And now that I have gone back to read the post,I stand by my original thought. It would involve disabling the "read only" characteristic and then applying the applicable sql for what you need.

In the forum that this is related to "gift wrapping" in concept and the gesture is described in post 2725 in the SBA forum.

I didn't see a quote in your response, but I believe you are responding to my post. If my assumption is correct, I believe I have a work-around that is doing exactly what I wanted.

I updated line# 434 from:
AND attributes_display_only != 1

Changed to:
AND attributes_display_only != 777

The 777 could have been anything other than 1 or 0 and it would have the same effect, I just happen to choose 777. The result of this change is all attribute display only selections are now displaying w/ the price on the product listing page AND it is not displaying "Out of Stock". Also, non display items ARE ALSO displaying prices on the product listing pages. To track those items inventory via SBA, I will not indicate display only. Works perfectly for me. I have not seen any issues after testing thus far.
Thanks once again for your help and response.