Stocks by attributes

[kuroi]

This is interesting, but also a little confusing.

To clarify when you go into the products with attributes entry form you see one set of attributes, but when you submit values it creates two database entries which are then displayed (presumably in the overall listing).

Now you are adding that Internet Explorer (you don't say which version) only displays one of those two entries for the same variant.

Clearly this is not normal behaviour for the mod or many other people would have been concerned about it, and I can't reproduce it in my test environments. My recommended lines of investigation would be 1) to check that none of your files have been corrupted by downloading the ones on your server and comparing them to a fresh download of the mod and 2) to ensure that there is not a problem with how your attributes have been set up.

[double e]

You are correct it will display two database entries which show up in the phpmyadmin but they do not show in the attributes on the public listing page when you try to purchase the item.

When I use IE 7 everything works fine, I will do a comparison of the files downloaded for the addon with the original ones and see if I can come up with any differences. I did use winmerge the first time because I have image handler 2 but like I said I am new to all of this so maybe I did something wrong.
Thanks for your response!

[double e]

I compared all of the files with a fresh download of the Stock by attributes and
I found a few differences which fixed the problem that I was having with the "out of stock" not coming up when an item attribute is added to the cart with a 0 stock level but I still have the problem with Firefox putting double entries when adding attribute stock levels in the admin section. I don't know why this should happen.

[sobebabies]

I've got one product I drop ship that have 4 attributes with quite a few options on some of them - it adds up to 420 permutations. I'd do this in SQL if I have to - is there any quicker way to make all combos for a given product have a very high number in stock? I am doing most combos by hand for the rest of my inventory, as boring as that is, but, well, this one product is going to take weeks to do manually.

[kuroi]

I've got one product I drop ship that have 4 attributes with quite a few options on some of them - it adds up to 420 permutations. I'd do this in SQL if I have to - is there any quicker way to make all combos for a given product have a very high number in stock? I am doing most combos by hand for the rest of my inventory, as boring as that is, but, well, this one product is going to take weeks to do manually.

It you only drop ship for this product and therefore want all possible combinations to be available, just put a high stock value on the product itself and don't create any attribute stock.

If some of the combinations are are not possible, then you would need to set attribute stock to zero to disable the combinations that visitors are not able to purchase. There is no built in way to achieve this, and because of the way in the which the data is structured, a purely SQL solution would be very complex. This really feels like it needs an upload file, possibly imported via your database management tool (or phpMyAdmin).

[sobebabies]

It you only drop ship for this product and therefore want all possible combinations to be available, just put a high stock value on the product itself and don't create any attribute stock.

Oh! I didn't realize that! No, this isn't the only product I drop ship but this is such an easier solution. Thanks! :)

I installed this module a few weeks ago and was gonna get to updating the numbers. Someone called me saying something was out of stock - I hadn't even realized that people noticed the *** and bright pink (for me, anyway) warning because order were coming in anyway and stuff going negative. So anyway, I've been scrambling to get the inventory in correctly - sales were suspiciously low.

[milobloom]

Is there a way to put qunatity counts next to the sizes?
Or at least a "out of stock" if it is in fact?

Thanks

[kuroi]

Is there a way to put qunatity counts next to the sizes?
Or at least a "out of stock" if it is in fact?

This is answered in the mod's documentation over at the Wiki. Look for the FAQ section, it's question number 1. There's also further discussion of it earlier in this thread and in the official support thread for this mod.

[milobloom]

odd.

It says to edit

includes/modules/pages/product_info/main_template_vars_attributes.php

But I do not have that file.
Although I do have this mod working....

Is this right???

[woodlandsprite]

odd.

It says to edit

includes/modules/pages/product_info/main_template_vars_attributes.php

But I do not have that file.
Although I do have this mod working....

Is this right???

Milo you need to read more carefully ;)
the Wiki sas to edit includes/modules/attributes.php INSTEAD of the file that is called out above :)