Adding radio buttons or drop list.

Hi, is it possible to add radio buttons to a given product?
I sell t-shirts, so I want to add radio buttons (or a drop down list) to enable customers to select size and colour.
Any ideas?
http://www.ksp.co.nz/ksp_store/

Mi,
This is a good place to start!!!

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php

1. Search for: attributes

All done with Atributes. Check this TUTORIAL.

Hope this helps.

Excellent. Exactly what I was after... Thank-you :smile:

Don't suppose you know of any way to "batch add" to all existing products?

Hi, Totally Zenned ...
The tutorial is good, but I have been hassliing with it all afternoon with two little radio buttons for a black version and a red version of the product. They both show up as selected every time.

Substituting a dropdown doesn't work either. The dropdown turns into two already selected radio buttons on the page and I can't deselect them.

Checkboxes work fine, just like they should.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
... Doug

BTW ... I didn't mean to just address my question to only one person. Anybody who has a solution, and knows how to make radio buttons work without all being selected is just fine by me.

.. Doug

DougFairchild:

BTW ... I didn't mean to just address my question to only one person. Anybody who has a solution, and knows how to make radio buttons work without all being selected is just fine by me.

.. Doug

Doug,
Attributes, Force to Select

The beauty of this procedure: Is a warning box appears at the top of the page stating they have not selected a attribute color you offer to the customer.

Example of what it should look like in the Option Value Manager:

(Add the following Option Values below)

1. I used color as an example: Use the option name value you would like:
2. The 0, 10, 20 are sort orders below

Please Select Color 0
Red 10
Black 20

Now in Attribute Controller for the product with this Option Name Value:

1. Add, Please Select Color to product, sort order 0
2. Associate the flag properties to Please Select Color
3. Under Attribute Flags: the colored boxes
4. Yellow box, Used for Display purpose only: Click Yes
5. Tan box, Default Attribute to be marked selected: Click Yes
6. Add, the following red, black also with sort orders, and leave the flag properties to default (do not touch)

Bye the way, are you from Iowa, in high school I had a classmate with the same name. Just curious

haredo:

Doug,
Attributes, Force to Select

Bye the way, are you from Iowa, in high school I had a classmate with the same name. Just curious

Actually, I'm from Texas. My Grandfather was not the eldest son in a Scottish family that owned a mountain of Talc on Lake Erie, so he set out to Waco when it was a little frontier town on the Brazos, surrounded by Comanches, one of which shot my Grandmother with an arrow on her way in the stagecoach from Little Rock, Arkansas to marry him. She was tough and made it.

But one night when there was nothing else interesting to do, I did a search on my name and came up with another Douglas Fairchild in Vermont. I asked him what he knew of his ancestors, and he replied that the only thing he knew was that his Great Grandfather had owned a mountain of talc on Lake Erie.

So your high school friend may have been a distant relative. Ask him the question sometime. :-)

Anyway, thanks for the instructions. Unfortunately, either there is a bug in my copy of Zen Cart or I didn't completely understand, because I think I did what you said, and now I have three stuck radio buttons instead of two.

http://www.subaruspecialists.com/partsdept/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_73&products_id=193

If that doesn't get you there, go to http://www.subaruspecialists.com and navigate to the STI 2008-09 page and look at it.

Any further instructions, or am I just too dumb to do this? I spent all day yesterday and always came up with the same thing. Checkboxes work, but are not really a fit for the selection. Radio would be nice.

TIA,
Doug

Do,
Pm sent to you, private message..

DougFairchild:

Unfortunately, either there is a bug in my copy of Zen Cart or I didn't completely understand, because I think I did what you said, and now I have three stuck radio buttons instead of two.

http://www.subaruspecialists.com/partsdept/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_73&products_id=193

Well, as usual, it was a bug in the operator. The instructions didn't mention that the radio buttons should all have the same name, like "color", so I forgot my HTML and gave them their values as names. It seemed rather peculiar to me at the time, but this Zen Cart contraption is a very different thing than what I am used to.

Anyway, I figured it out and it now works.

**I do have one other question, if anybody knows the answer: How do you change the order in which the radio buttons appear? **

I wanted "Red Anodized" to be the top button, because it is the usual choice for this product, and "Black Anodized" to be beneath it. I don't know if Zen Cart is reversing the order because it is arranging them in alphabetical order, or if it is just getting even.

Anybody have any advice for that ?

Thanks,

Doug

Do,
admin panel/ catalog/ option name manager/ red an

1. click edit
2. look for sort order, give here a value of 5
3. same with black an, give him a sort order of 10