Is there a way to "hide" attributes?

[fairestcape]

As regards your second question...

The minute you apply attributes to a product, the "more info..." link will appear on the product listing. This is because the customer has to make specific choices to that specific product before it can be added to the cart.

I suppose what you are asking is this:

Is it possible to display the attributes in the product listing page, so that the selections can be made there, and the add to cart quantity box therefore shows up.

Short answer: In a standard install, no.

There may be a way to custom code this, but it will be quite complicated... Just thinking about it suggests to me that it will not be easily possible becuase of the way attributes are handled with product associations in the database...

(I may be wrong, and perhaps a GURU would offer a different prognosis).

[lifescrappers]

As regards your second question...

The minute you apply attributes to a product, the "more info..." link will appear on the product listing. This is because the customer has to make specific choices to that specific product before it can be added to the cart.

I suppose what you are asking is this:

Is it possible to display the attributes in the product listing page, so that the selections can be made there, and the add to cart quantity box therefore shows up.

Short answer: In a standard install, no.

There may be a way to custom code this, but it will be quite complicated... Just thinking about it suggests to me that it will not be easily possible becuase of the way attributes are handled with product associations in the database...

(I may be wrong, and perhaps a GURU would offer a different prognosis).

See, I didn't explain myself LOL.
I'm not talking about attributes...These products have no attributes. They are free downloads. Did you click on the link I submitted? The very first freebie is showing up the way I want it to, with the little "add" and box that you can put the amount you want in...

[fairestcape]

I'm still correct...

I clicked on one of the "more info..." links on the page you refer to above, and got to the following product:

http://life-scrappers.com/index.php?...products_id=59

This product has an ATTRIBUTE associated with it.

(as do all the others where the "more info..." link appears.

How do I know there's an attribute attached... ?

It says:

Please Choose:

Then a radio button is default selected...


These are attributes, plain and simple.

[lifescrappers]

Oh My I feel very foolish. I knew I had to be missing something - I forgot the download on that certain freebie.
OK so if there are attributes (including download links) it's not possible to give a customer the option to NOT view more info?

[fairestcape]

Oh My I feel very foolish.

... we are all learning things. No foolishness is involved when we learn...

OK so if there are attributes (including download links) it's not possible to give a customer the option to NOT view more info?

In a product listing page, when there are additional selections a customer must make to configuring their product choice, the "more info..." link will appear, in order for the customer to move to that product info more exclusively. At the product info page level, these additional choices are displayed, as they are unique to that product. The customer then configures his choices, and the product can then be added to the cart.

You may like to re-consider if some of these products need "additional choice" parameters - particularly when there is only one choice anyway - ie: you've set only ONE attribute that is selected by default. This is superfluous and unnecessary. Consider removing these attributes. When/if you do remove them, the "more info..." link will disappear, and the add to cart box will show in the product listing pages.

[lifescrappers]

Taking away the actual download links is not an option, but listing them on the detail page isn't necessary...So is there a way to turn that off?

And I still would really like to know how to make the product list in order of date added, not alphabetically.