Stocks by attributes

[milobloom]

Sorry for the bunch of posts...

I thought I had this solved I have this error at the bottom I cant resolve.

www.mygreenmoon.com (not my live site)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_get_upcoming_date_range() in /home/green/public_html/includes/modules/upcoming_products.php on line 15

[kuroi]

Sorry for the bunch of posts...

I thought I had this solved I have this error at the bottom I cant resolve.

www.mygreenmoon.com (not my live site)

That's nothing to do with Stock by Attributes for which this is the support thread. You're using the latest version of StockAttribute. Here's my assessment of it from earlier in this thread.

You might want to try the latest version of StockAttribute by danielcor which uses AJAX to dynamically update the stock levels depending upon customer selections. However, it's based on an older version of Zen Cart and a slightly buggy version of the Attribute Stock mod from which the mod to which this thread refers was derived.

Unfortunately it appears that nobody is supporting that mod, and having spent a considerable amount of time cleaning the earlier version that developed into Stock by Attributes, I'm afraid you're in for a bit of a rough ride with this fork - though your immediate problem can be resolved by doing a merge between your functions_lookups.php and the one in the 1.3.8a Zen Cart distribution pack.

[shoulders]

Yea that has to be the best one...

http://www.mygreenmoon.com/index.php...ducts_id=15552

I love the fact that they figured out a way to tell people how much stock you have left. (Look at the add to cart button.

a little off topic, but do you know if there is a downloadable mod for this?

[kuroi]

a little off topic, but do you know if there is a downloadable mod for this?

You can find it in the downloads section, but please don't hijack this support thread to discuss its problems.

[groomedmonkey]

Hey ppl,
I'm going nucking futs trying to get this clothing store up and running. Obviously as it's clothing there are a lot of variants. I *think* my problem is user-error judging from this thread, but I have no idea where I messed up.

I have zen-cart-v138a vanilla install and stock_by_attributes_4-7MULTIADD. Firstly there seems to be discrepencies between the instructions and the delivered files:

Rename "includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE" where in my unzipped download I only had includes/modules/pages.

I bring this up as it was confusing and perhaps is part of my trouble. To install I dropped the "pages" folder into "includes/modules/MY_TEMPLATE".

Admin panels are there and I can alter the stock count. The problem I am facing is in the shopping cart. It's effectively not working. eg

Red = 1 in stock
Blue = 2 in stock

It gives me the "out of stock" protocol if I ask for 4 of either but doesn't seem to register the attribute stock that I have indicated in the "Products with attributes stock" admin page - I can proceed to order 2 or 3 Reds.

I have a feeling i might have to ##############ise categories into sizes and colours to get this to my client - going to be messy

Thanks in advance for any help. No url atm as I'm just trying to solve my problems in an xampp install.

[groomedmonkey]

Ok for starters putting "page" into includes/modules/MY_TEMPLATE is a bad idea - I overwrote the core files in "pages" with the ones from the plug-in and now the backend attributes/stock table has background colour. Unfortunately hasn't solved the ordering issues

So maybe that part of the instructions is an artefact from a previous version? http://www.nectarina.co.uk/readme.html

I'm going to try copying all the files again... Be soooooooooo good if just the one plug-in would work for me.

[groomedmonkey]

Ok I tried installing a test site on the actual server and installed this plug-in and now it seems to work - guess I missed something on the local install.

There is still one issue though and I'm not sure if this is just the way it is or if there is some option I need to tweak: although the customer is notified that the particular item (with an attribute) is out of stock they are still able to proceed with the checkout. I do get "Please change the quantity of products marked with (***). Thank you" instead of the back order notice.

I have changed (in Configure/Stock) "Show Sold Out Image in place of Add to Cart" to on and "Allow Checkout" to false but seems that the checkout button is still there. I have tested this on a test product without any attributes and seems the same Is this just an issue with Zen Cart itself?

[groomedmonkey]

Seems it just wants a person to login then the "go to checkout" botton doesn't lead anywhere. Doesn't seem to show how much stock is available for a product in the shopping cart though - particularly annoying for customers who then have to incrementally guess how much is there. I thought I saw something about this somewhere in the forums... might see if i can find it

[pjb923]

I tried searching through this thread and didn't see this issue, but I admit that I didn't take the time to read all 50 pages.

I have a clothing store that has items with size, and an optional monogram text box.

When I try to add a variant I am presented with 2 dropdown boxes as expected. I choose the size I want and choose ALL for my monogram attribute. Since the only option under monogram is TEXT the item appears out of stock unless someone puts text in the box.

I was thinking of the idea of adding some text in the box by default, like "none", but the monogram attribute adds an additional $10 to the cost of the item. I really need to be able to set stock independent of the monogram attribute. Is there a way to ignore a certain attribute, or in my case I would like to be able to ignore all text attributes in the stock.

Can anyone help me?

[Lunacon.staff]

I think I've got it!

I set up attributes, then linked them to the product, making all the appropriate ones required, and when I tried to click to purchase without filling in the required info, it gave me a big ol' error message.

Now I just have to go read all the help files on extracting customers' attribute responses from the back end.

Thank you all for advice and allowing me to bounce my lack of ideas until something came through.