Attributes HOW-TO

[surfmueller]

so what are we talking then, a year or even longer? or is there any good inventory control system interacting with zen cart that you know of?

[Ajeh]

More like a few months on this one ...

To do stock tracking down to the attribute level has a lot of things to take into account to allow for all the different attribute types, combos etc.

If we had stronger support for new features like this, we'd be able to get these things done a lot faster ...

But we have to feed my Kitty ... such a fussy cat wanting to eat on a regular basis ...

But this is one of our priorities to get this added to Zen Cart as soon as we are able.

[SarahL]

interesting thread :) lots of great information, but like the rest a question...

I know you can add default selection to items and also the "please Select" one to dropdowns, but I want to have various radio buttons for size, colour, type and various other stuff and the client MUST select one or each - is there a check that I can say these must be selected? when they try to "Add to cart"

I cannot use default cos if they don't notice they will end up with the wrong thing...

Hopefully its not before me in the thread if it is tell me and I will go back and read through it again

Thanks
Sarah

[Ajeh]

This is what the attribute setting for:

Used For Display Purposes Only:

You may not add a product to the cart when this is selected.

If you add to Colors a:

Select from below and set this to the default and set to Display only ... it would stop a customer from not picking a valid choice.

[SarahL]

Thanks Ajeh - that worked perfectly!

now just need tow ork out the other intricisies this shop needs

[signslave]

Hello, I also got some troubles with attributes.
Most of them are working fine but i got a problem with this situation.

A banner costs
1 piece 100,-
5 piece 50,-
10 piece 25,-

Printed in 2 colors + 15%
Printed in 3 colors + 30%
Printed in 4 colors + 45%

Printed double sided + 50 %

-1 piece price in the article base.
-5 en 10 piece price i put in the product price manager
- I created the correct option names and values
- the attributs: 2 color: factor=1.15 offset=1 and so on.
The result is:
everything goes well with 1 piece.
The factor/offset is alway calculated from the base price.
That is not what i want, I want it calculated from the pricemanager prices eg

10 pieces 2 color:
10 * 25,- + 15% gives
250+ 15% from 1000 ( 10 * baseprice ) = 250+150=400

I would like:
10 * 25,- + 15% gives
250 + 15% from 250 = 250+37,50 =287,50

Is there a way to do this? I think i tried everything.
Help

[Ajeh]

There is not a calculation within a calculation on the prices at this time on the attributes.

[mynetlink]

using the attributes controller, I want to discount a product when a checkbox is checked. The kicker is, I want to discount it by a percentage, rather than a set amount. How does my attributes controller need to be set up?

thanks in advance

[Ajeh]

You could add an attribute price factor that would compute a negative amount based on a percentage.

If selected it would then apply that amount to the product.

[Hanlon]

I believe this was covered... but I'll try a go at it.

Set up an Option Name... such as Discount A (as a radio button)
Set up the aprppriate Option Values assigned to Discount A

From the Attributes Menu
Select a Product
Select Discount A from the Option Name window and the discount you added from the Option Values window
Blank out the "+" associated with Price.
In the Price Factor field, enter the factor by which you would like the price to be changed by. i.e. .6 would give you 40% off.
For the Offset field, enter "1"

This is what I've been using.. works like a charm.

Hope my instructions were clear enough.
Hanlon