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How to accomplish this with attributes?

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21 Mar 2010, 12:04 AM
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How to accomplish this with attributes?

I am helping a fellow zener to accomplish the following:
I am wondering if there is a magic way of doing this with attributes.

I want to have the customers to be able to build their shelving unit online and order it,

The shelf consist of the following attributes:
Height: 36, 54 and 72 inches
shelves count: 2,3,4 and 5 (note: if the shelf height is 36 they can add 2 or 3 shelving)
size of shelves: 14 X 36, 18 X 36, etc.
Wheels Size: 3 or 4 inches
Wheels Count (sets of 4): based on the number of units they are buying and want to have wheels for.

This will get me started and i can think about accessories when don with this.

Thank you so much for your help and suggestions.

21 Mar 2010, 1:42 PM
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Re: How to accomplish this with attributes?

TamyA:

(note: if the shelf height is 36 they can add 2 or 3 shelving)

You should be able to do that with attributes, maybe with the help of this::

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=876

and:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=310

but the quoted part above suggests 'dependent attributes' where the option of some attributes depends on the selection of another, and you can't do that in Zencart now.

23 Mar 2010, 2:07 PM
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Re: How to accomplish this with attributes?

Thanks Stevesh,

I looked at those add-on, I am not concerned with the stock status since if any component is out of stock then the whole thing should be out of stock. Thanks for the reply.

what i want to accomplish is to have the customer select the
1)number of Complete units
2)size of shelf (depth and width we have 6 sizes available)
3)number of shelf on each unit ordered
2)wheels (size and quantity), for example if they order 3 units they can ask for one unit with wheels or 2 or 3 or none.