Display Component Product Details on BTO

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   We have transferred a clients shop to Product Cart as the BTO version seemed to have everything we needed. But now we're hitting a few issues so any help much appreciated.
Shop sells PC Components and custom build systems (hence BTO) for the custom build systems we want to use the drop down method to display all of the components - BUT this removes the ability to link to product details and when you check the Show Details option for each component category it simply displays a link and that launches a pop-up with details for ALL possible components. Which the way our client wants his system to work is no good as for many components he has several options (too many in my opinion but....!) so the pop-up takes a week to scroll thru. Any ideas how we can get this to display just the details for the item currently selected?
Hope someone can help me - this job is dragging on and on and on......

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metalmania Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 09-February-2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote metalmania Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Display Component Product Details on BTO Posted: 25-April-2007 at 6:17pm
	We have transferred a clients shop to Product Cart as the BTO version seemed to have everything we needed. But now we're hitting a few issues so any help much appreciated. Shop sells PC Components and custom build systems (hence BTO) for the custom build systems we want to use the drop down method to display all of the components - BUT this removes the ability to link to product details and when you check the Show Details option for each component category it simply displays a link and that launches a pop-up with details for ALL possible components. Which the way our client wants his system to work is no good as for many components he has several options (too many in my opinion but....!) so the pop-up takes a week to scroll thru. Any ideas how we can get this to display just the details for the item currently selected? Hope someone can help me - this job is dragging on and on and on......

carstone Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 12-July-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote carstone Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26-April-2007 at 9:21am
	This would be useful for my situation, too. I'm all ears!

M Robles Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 13-July-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote M Robles Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26-September-2007 at 11:07am
	If the options are so long because of variations of an option then you may consider switching to radio buttons instead of drop downs and then use apparel products (need the apparel add-on) to further drill down the option variations. BTO Example. Category - Memory Option 1 - DDR400 1-GIG ---> Change Options Option 2 - DDR400 2-GIG ---> Change Options ---> Apparel Product Options --Brand, Heat Sink, Latency or whatever This way you can skip listing all of the variations of each sub-product by letting the apparel product add-on do it, and you get the "Details" shown, plus it looks a lot cleaner.