Stocks by attributes

[Muzz]

HI there,

I'm new to stock by attributes and have just installed 4.7a on my 1.38a Zen cart.

All looks to be working ok.

However, I wanted to do a test so I went to admin > catalog/products > proucts with attributes stock.

Clicked on Add Quantity For Product Variant and entered an amount say 10 on ALL. then saved. Then I Sync Quantities.

However, if I go back into the same attribite via the Add Quantity For Product Variant and enter another 10 say to all I get this error.

att: 5561|5559|5562|5558|5556,5678|5679|5680|5681|5682|5683|5684

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/myfoldername/mywebfolder/myadmin/products_with_attributes_stock.php:193) in /home/myfoldername/mywebfolder/myadmin/includes/functions/general.php on line 21

It seems as though regardless of the error that it still does work but as I'm new to the mod I wanted to make sure.

It still adds to the total correct amount and I can then sync with now problems.

Thanks for any input,

Murray

[Muzz]

Hi there,

I wanted to add a little to the above post. I'm not sure if it is related or not though.

I have entered the admin > catalog/products > proucts with attributes stock area.

I find a product I want to edit. I click on Add Quantity For Product Variant.

I sellect ALL. Then make a change.. say 10. (ALL attributes then have 10 of each in stock)

Then I think to myself.. actually thats out of stock.. so I go back into 'attributes stock area' of the product and do -10. As it lists say 700 items in stock of various attributes.

This then sets all to -10. NOT to 0. I don't know another way to reset this to 0? I have gone back in Add Quantity For Product Variant area and tried to edit to other numbers but now there are a lot if various amounts. Cannot I not edit ALL attributes of the same product at once?

Now I have many attributes of that product listed as -10. If I log back in and edit using 'attributes stock area' ALL feature to say 10 again. Many of the products remain as -10.

I can individually edit each one.. but I have many attributes and as you can edit ALL in the 'attributes stock area' I was wondering what I'm doing wrong or if in fact the error in above post that happens when I process the ALL feature works is working correctly.

I wanted to add the ONLY time I can NOT get an error is when selecting the attributes which I have 2.

Size

Color

If I Add Quantity For Product Variant I select a specific color AND size.

If I select ALL on either of them or both it will have above post error.

[kuroi]

Kuroi,

I removed 4.7ajax and installed multiadd. I am able to add to the product stock by attributes table. However I am not able to display the quantities next to the attributes in the product info page. I tried what you had mentioned in wiki (grayson). I have only one attribute currently..size.

Also when quantity is added to cart, the stock does not reduce (when continue shopping is clicked without checking out).

I have checked for the proper installation, as you suggested.

can we combine stock by attribute with product attribute grid module... so that we can have the quantity of stock available next to the attribute and also allow the customer to choose the quantity

Hi Swathi

I'm afraid you're asking me a pile of questions to which I don't know the answers. But I'll do my best and let's hope that other people jump in with their experience.

I've never had need to use the multiadd version myself, can't really comment much on how that works.

Suimilarly I've never implemented the Grayson solution. I put the link in the wiki because people clearly wanted it, but you will need to read a little further down the thread to get the up-to-date details since the mod's structure has changed from when she first devised the approach, but the implications of those changes are discussed.

I've never really looked closely at the attribute grid mod. I'm guessing that it lays the attributes out in a grid! However, most likely it will be completely independent of this mod and compatible, but will know nothing about quantities so you would need to build that in.

However, even with quantities built into the display, customers won't be able to order multiples. Zen Cart's attribute system doesn't have any attributes that support ordering a quantity of the same attribute. That's a very big deal. I built a partial solution to this once to support a specific requirement for a client. It was horrendously complex and took me about three days to develop and test, test, test.

On stock reduction not occurring, I used to investigate these individually, but the problem was always due to one of the same two issues: either the includes/classes/order.php class hadn't been properly loaded to the server, or there was a backup of the original in the same folder overriding the changed version.

[trippy1976]

I'm trying to implement qty by attribute for my 1.3.7 site so I can sell shirts in the holiday season.

So far, I'm not having luck. I suspect it's due to the module needing 1.3.8, can someone confirm this?

Can someone point me to something that WILL work for my 1.3.7 cart?

When I did install this, I was able to see the back end and it appeared to work. I.e. I could put in 3 small shirts and 4 mediums and then hit the update link and the main product showed qty of 7 with the appropriate sub-qty. But then, when I went on the front end and purchased 1 small shirt, I would see the main qty go to 6 on the admin view but the sub-qty for small would STAY at 3. The behavior I expected to see was that both the main qty AND the sub-qty would go down.

If I went to the front end and tried to order 4 small shirts, it would tell me there were not 4 available, which is correct. But then I could still order 3 since the sub-qty remained at 3, but in reality I would only have 2 available at this point.

So I'm thinking that either my cart version is not compatible with this and I hope someone can point me to something that works (doesn't need to be fancy). Or, I have misunderstood the purpose of this mod and someone can point me to something more appropriate for my needs. Or .... something else :)

Any help or direction is appreciated.

[kuroi]

A few possibilities ...

if you've installed the AJAX version then you won't have all the files needed - there's lots more about this elsewhere

if you've not installed it properly, in particular the includes/classes/order.php file, then it also won't work, and in the way you've described.

the current versions may well not be compatible with 1.3.7, in which case go back to the downloads area and get the version that was written for 1.3.7.

[trippy1976]

Yep, i grabbed the 1.3.7 version, works like a champ.

One question, is it supposed to "turn off" attributes that have 0 qty or no? Right now, if my "small" is 0 qty, the cart still shows small as an option on the front end. Just wondering if that's expected behavior. Any tweaks out there to turn that off automagically if stock on an attribute is 0?

Thanks for the help

[Vall]

Hello,

I've tried looking for an answer or a solution but could not find it. I'd like to ask if there is any addon that alows you to search based on attributes.

For example I have clothing sizes S, M, L and I want to search for only M, or filter the rest.

If no, could I ask for a quick explanation what's the main problem with that?

Thank you!

[kuroi]

Yep, i grabbed the 1.3.7 version, works like a champ.

One question, is it supposed to "turn off" attributes that have 0 qty or no? Right now, if my "small" is 0 qty, the cart still shows small as an option on the front end. Just wondering if that's expected behavior. Any tweaks out there to turn that off automagically if stock on an attribute is 0?

Thanks for the help

The base stock by attributes mod merely adds stock to the attribute, and has no impact on its display. The AJAX version may be attempting to go where you want, but I can't be sure as I've never used it.

[kuroi]

Hello,

I've tried looking for an answer or a solution but could not find it. I'd like to ask if there is any addon that alows you to search based on attributes.

For example I have clothing sizes S, M, L and I want to search for only M, or filter the rest.

If no, could I ask for a quick explanation what's the main problem with that?

Thank you!

This mod can't help you with this. It has nothing to do with searching.

The topic generally has been discussed a number of times, but I don't know of any mod that does it, as a general mod capable of handling any combination of attributes would be very complex and slow. Normally when one of our clients wants to to search by attribute we write custom code based either on attributes or on a new product type with additional product codification to meet the specific needs of the store.

However, this thread is already excessively long just from supporting this mod, so if you need more information about how this can be done, please start a new thread.

[Schweb Design]

I've spent countless hours going over these posts...

Is it true that it is still not possible to either

1- display to the customer the different attribute variations and how many of each are in stock

or

2- disable the attribute option(s) from the respective dropdown menu's that are not in stock.

I have the Stock By attributes module version 4.7Ajax (up from 4.7 multi add) successfully installed.

I saw posts by several members years to months ago asking about this / almost solving this / etc - but with no stated solutions... has anyone figured out how to do this?! Could you point me to contributed modules that can do this?! If i'm asking this in the wrong spot could you lead me to the correct place?!

Thank you for any advice you can extend to me.