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Thu, 07/23/2009 - 10:13
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Hi All!

I have a webshop which sells electrical switches. I have some problem creating very similar products.

Let's say for example, I have a relay that has 1kA 2kA 4kA and 5kA variants. The housing is the same, and the description is the same too. These variants differ in SKU and price.

I firs thought about creating attributes, but there are lots of products (more than 50) which have variants and since attributes are global it is very hard to manage them.

Is there an easier way to handle this problem with übercart?

Any idea is welcome!
Gábor

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Thu, 07/23/2009 - 10:43
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Re: How to create product subtypes

So what I would basically like is node level attributes.

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Thu, 07/23/2009 - 12:45
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Re: Re: How to create product subtypes

Seems like it has been solved in 2.x:
http://www.ubercart.org/forum/development/7067/questions_about_attribute...

EDIT: the above solution is not the one I needed, it only adds attributes to the node object. I missed something.

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Thu, 07/23/2009 - 16:37
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Re: Re: Re: How to create product subtypes

Although attributes are global, you can override them at the local (node) level. Just click on edit node and then select the attribute options to override them.

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Fri, 07/24/2009 - 06:49
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Re: Re: Re: Re: How to create product subtypes

Yes that's true, but that does not help me much. My product variants are local to almost each product, so I can not create a general attribute type like one can for example a color when handling t-shirts.

I have a device which has 5 subtypes, but one has a difference in temperature range and the other in rated current, so I would have to create much more attributes than products and handling them would be a nightmare.

Another problem is that I have an importer module - if I will have time to clean up the code I will publish it here - which does price import based on product SKUs and the attribute and option related tables are quite messy.

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