Stock by Attributes 5.0 Beta (for v1.5.0)

dack:

Is anyone hosting this file somewhere else? The link in the first post reports a 404.

I'm also looking for a copy of this add-on

Sorry for late reply nor have I had a chance to do any updates from my last version. Building a house for a client out of state. Latest version is in my signature. If for some reason it does not work. Let me know and ill have my wife look into it.

Thanks, Charles

This add-on looks extremely useful, but I'm not sure if it will address my needs. Hopefully those who have used it can help me before I go through the pain of installing it unnecessarily.
The issue I have is our store will be selling fabric. Each product can be sold in 3 different sizes (quarter metre, half metre or metre).
We purchased in 5 metre "bolts", which equates to 20 quarter metre pieces, so initial stock level shows as "20 Units". We need the stock to be adjusted accordingly, so if for example someone purchases 2 metres, stock is reduced by 8 units, half metre only reduces stock by 2 units, etc.
In a fresh v150 install, the attributes sort the pricing perfectly but stock is only adjusted by the total quantity regardless of attribute chosen.

Will this add-on help me? If not, will any others that anyone is aware of?
All suggestions greatly appreciated.

You are right this mod isn't going to solve your problem because I don't think you need to use attributes at all let alone an add-on to manage stock by attributes..

Why are you using attributes for this product at all?? If you are selling a product where 1 unit = 1/4 meter, and I choose 8 units this would be 2 meters correct?? If I choose 2 units, this is a 1/2 meter. If I choose 4 units, then this is 1 meter. So what is the need for attributes here?? I think if you have clear product descriptions your customers will understand that 1 unit is equal to 1/4 meter.

greggillies:

This add-on looks extremely useful, but I'm not sure if it will address my needs. Hopefully those who have used it can help me before I go through the pain of installing it unnecessarily.
The issue I have is our store will be selling fabric. Each product can be sold in 3 different sizes (quarter metre, half metre or metre).
We purchased in 5 metre "bolts", which equates to 20 quarter metre pieces, so initial stock level shows as "20 Units". We need the stock to be adjusted accordingly, so if for example someone purchases 2 metres, stock is reduced by 8 units, half metre only reduces stock by 2 units, etc.
In a fresh v150 install, the attributes sort the pricing perfectly but stock is only adjusted by the total quantity regardless of attribute chosen.

Will this add-on help me? If not, will any others that anyone is aware of?
All suggestions greatly appreciated.

creinold:

Sorry for late reply nor have I had a chance to do any updates from my last version. Building a house for a client out of state. Latest version is in my signature. If for some reason it does not work. Let me know and ill have my wife look into it.

Thanks, Charles

I am also looking for the most up to date version of this. I don't see any link in your signature.

Skippersyacht:

I am also looking for the most up to date version of this. I don't see any link in your signature.1st post in this thread.. in creinold's siggy

http://www.sidewalkstyles.com/creinold_SBA5.0_alpha_version1.5_for_zencart_V1.5.0.zip

I'm having an incredibly weird problem, hopefully someone can help me out...

I've installed this module, but all attribute combinations show as "out of stock". I have size/color combinations. The backend works just fine, I can normally add stock for each combination and everything gets stored in the DB just fine. But, when I go to my product page, there are no combinations available. so, to make sure, I disabled the Dynamic Dropdowns and tried adding ie. Black / Small to cart. When I go to shopping cart page, it says that combination is out of stock. I enabled "Show available stock level in cart when less than order" and it says "Stock available: 0". But, the DB clearly shows some stock.

Does anyone have ANY ideas? I triple checked includes/functions_lookups.php and includes/modules/pages/shopping_cart/header_php.php and everything seems to be fine.

Here are two screenshots:
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Any help would be much appreciated.

creinold:

http://www.sidewalkstyles.com/creinold_SBA5.0_alpha_version1.5_for_zencart_V1.5.0.zip

I was about to comment that I thought that might be the latest... it's a little confusing that the "alpha" is newer than the "beta", but I understand why. You may want to put a link to this one in the first post too. Probably also remove the dead link too.

I can't seem to find the page now, but there's some page somewhere that explains what changes need to be made to a module to make it work with 1.5. That page also mentions that files in admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes are ignored. I noticed there's still a file in there with this module... Is it being used or could it safely be deleted?

Thanks, was able to download it and test it out on my site. Works great on the dropdown attributes but as mentioned in this thread doesn't work for my text field attributes. Looking forward to when someone is able to work that out!

dack:

I was about to comment that I thought that might be the latest... it's a little confusing that the "alpha" is newer than the "beta", but I understand why. You may want to put a link to this one in the first post too. Probably also remove the dead link too.
can't edit posts after 7 minutes..

So I've been playing with this and sadly I'm not sure I will be able to use it across the board because of some shortcomings I have discovered.

SBA v5.0 like previous SBA versions do seem to support products with "optional" attributes. "Optional" attributes are attributes which would not used to track stock. They would be things that are "enhancements" to a product such as monograms, packaging options, customization options, etc. For example if I purchase a tablecloth which is stock based on size and color, and selected the option for adding a monogram. This is not possible with previous versions of SBA, and this version is no exception.

Additionally this add-on seems to turn ALL of my attributes into dropdown attributes so matter what option type for the attribute actually is. With SBA v5.0 they all "taste like chicken" in that they are ALL converted on the front end into dropdowns.

This behavior is also applied to any products where I DO NOT create product variants (because the stock is not tracked by a product variant). So If I create a product with a text attribute and do not create a product variant for this product, ALL the attributes will appear as sequenced dropdowns.

DivaVocals:

Additionally this add-on seems to turn ALL of my attributes into dropdown attributes so matter what option type for the attribute actually is. With SBA v5.0 they all "taste like chicken" in that they are ALL converted on the front end into dropdowns.

Are you sure SBA is doing this and not Dynamic Dropdowns? Make a simple test - change includes/templates.../tpl_modules_attributes.php and use the default one so that DD aren't utilized. I understand there are some downsides to this, but on the other hand, you could add a stock table which directly shows which combinations are in stock...

balihr:

Are you sure SBA is doing this and not Dynamic Dropdowns? Make a simple test - change includes/templates.../tpl_modules_attributes.php and use the default one so that DD aren't utilized. I understand there are some downsides to this, but on the other hand, you could add a stock table which directly shows which combinations are in stock...
Of course it's dynamic dropdowns doing this.. However since Dynamic Dropdowns, is fully integrated as a part of the SBA v5.0 codebase, this is a FLAW and a fairly serious one I'd say since this implementation forces the shop owner to choose between sequenced attributes and fully functioning attributes.. Dynamic Dropdowns, sequenced attributes or whatever the feature is called should not arbitrarily change ALL attributes to dropdowns and apply the sequenced attribute behavior to them...

It's too bad the Dynamic Dropdowns function only works with dropdown type attributes, but IMHO it's MORE okay to use the feature with only one attribute type than the current behavior. I was prepared to have my client convert all of her radiobutton and checkbox attributes to dropdowns. The issue is for products for which stock is NOT tracked by product variants, she cannot use any other product attribute types because SBA v5.0 "converts" them all to dropdowns and applies the sequenced attributes behavior to them. That's a flaw, and I'd daresay it would be problematic for A LOT of shopowners as there really isn't a workaround using SBA v5.0.

Is there a way to make 1.5.0 work with SBA without regard for dynamic menus? I'm not really interested in having dynamic drop downs, I'm just trying to get back to the functionality that I had from old SBA versions before updating to 1.5.0. Should I be watching for a different contribution, or is this version constructed in such a way that I can take that part out?

jaredyates:

Is there a way to make 1.5.0 work with SBA without regard for dynamic menus? I'm not really interested in having dynamic drop downs, I'm just trying to get back to the functionality that I had from old SBA versions before updating to 1.5.0. Should I be watching for a different contribution, or is this version constructed in such a way that I can take that part out?

I need this to work as well. We need to keep track of stock on hand as well as provide for freeform text and file uploading for mongramming.

This works exactly the way I need it to

davidmay354:

I need this to work as well. We need to keep track of stock on hand as well as provide for freeform text and file uploading for mongramming.

davidmay354:

This works exactly the way I need it toDon't take this wrong, but HOW?? You provide little or no information in your post to say HOW it works the way you need.. As has been reported, SBA v5.0 does NOT work with products with attributes which are not tracked by attribute variants or products which have "optional" attributes. (And based on your first post it sounds like you have those)

So it would help others following this post if you could provide more details (and even a link to your site so we can see) on how it "works exactly" the way you need.. What does it do, how did you configure the add-on to get to this result..

DivaVocals:

Don't take this wrong, but HOW?? You provide little or no information in your post to say HOW it works the way you need.. As has been reported, SBA v5.0 does NOT work with products with attributes which are not tracked by attribute variants or products which have "optional" attributes. (And based on your first post it sounds like you have those)

So it would help others following this post if you could provide more details (and even a link to your site so we can see) on how it "works exactly" the way you need.. What does it do, how did you configure the add-on to get to this result..
Sorry about the confusion.. I do need a function that will track stock by attribute, but allow for text or file upload attributes as well. I am work with a a company that sells apparel that can be monogrammed. They want to keep track of the inventory(ie: size and color)and let the buyer select the pieces they want and then upload a logo or text to embroidered on the shirt(s) they select.