Getting rid of drop down in Apparel Product |
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jdunham
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Posted: 21-June-2012 at 4:06pm |
How would I make it so that if one of the options in an apparel product only has one available option, the drop down menu is removed and the one available option is listed in its place as text?
Here is a product on our site where there is only one option for "color": http://www.knotandrope.com/Store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=620&idcategory=26 Thank you, Jeff |
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Greg Dinger
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That would require significant expertise Jeff. The dropdown is a form element, and Javascript processes those form elements in the process of the "add to cart" and other related actions. I predict this will take a great deal of effort, potentially rendering this difficult to cost-justify.
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Hamish
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Hi,
Take a look at http://www.productcarthost.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=133 This is an apparel product generated with a single set of options. e.g. Just length, not color & length. I'll update the WIKI to make it clear that this is possible. |
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Hamish
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Wish I'd read the WIKI first - it was already there. Should take my own advice a bit more often
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Hamish,
I'm curious about your answer here, but the link to the store you posted doesn't work (product not available -- even with &adminPreview=1), and I'm not sure what you're referencing in the wiki. Could you give us something to see here, please?
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Hamish
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Hi, Oops, I trimmed it a bit to far. Try http://www.productcarthost.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=1334&idcategory=131
The admin pages are also accessible via our demo launch page : http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/addon-apparel-demo.asp The Blue Rope demo product is an apparel product with only one option group (length) attached to it and used to generate the sub-products. The reason for using the options to generate the sub-products, even though it is a single option group is to allow the features of an apparel sub-product (e.g. weight etc) to be utilised. |
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Thanks, Hamish ... but I don't see how that answer's Jeff's question:
Jeff, One thing you could do that's a built-in step in the result I believe you are looking for is to set the sub-product for the option group that has only the one option as the default option. I think this was introduced in version 4.5a -- next to the Active check box, there's a "Default" radio button. Checking that will set that sub-product as the selected default when the page loads. I just set the example product Hamish mentions above to default to the first sub-product option this way so you can get a visual on this.
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Hamish
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Hi Sean, The idea was to remove Blue as an option, because for this product it's not an option as the rope is only available in blue.
Your observation about setting the default sub-product is a good option though as it will set the color "option" to Blue so the customer no longer needs to set it, however the dropdown for color will still be there, so I expect many customers would click on it, if only out of curiosity about what other colors may be available. It is the least effort to implement though as the sub-products don't need to be re-built. |
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Thanks, Hamish. I was too focused on the option being there in the first place. For whatever the "default sub-product" option is worth, it would be better in this case to set the options to display as radio buttons. This would then cause the size/length options to display this way too, but these products don't appear to have many size/length options, so that wouldn't be much of a downside. In fact, the more I think about it, the more this might could be a very nice solution for the other products in this category as none of them have a color in their name, so some textual description of the color (e.g.: red & white mottled; green & white striped; orange). What's more, the parent product has no price, so the "per foot price" could be set as the default, and then the page would load with a price rather than $0.00. Ah, looks like Jeff has already set a couple of these products with these defaults (e.g. http://www.knotandrope.com/Store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=611&idcategory=26). Change the display to use radio buttons rather than "drop down menus", and I think this solution would be quite nice here, in this context.
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jdunham
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Thank you everyone for your replies. We just upgraded the version of PC a couple of week's ago and before the upgrade, and be I was brought on board, there was some code that was previously written to take the drop down away and of course with the upgrade, the code was over written. I will continue with some of your suggestions and figure out what will work the best. Especially since we are also in the middle of a complete re-design of the site.
Thanks!
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