How can I get a product kit to display its own attributes as opposed to the attributes of all the associated products?
many thanks
Wed, 11/14/2007 - 20:26
Re: Display product kit attributes
what would that be? An attribute none of the products has but its collection?
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No, more a default/global setting. All the products have a set of attributes (all the same of course) but loading the product kit page with attributes for all the products looks messy and confusing - so I'd prefer a global setting. Since we're not talking about t-shirts (for example) but rather animations, it's safe to assume that my clients would select the same attributes for all their product kit products so a global would be preferable.
Did you ever solve this?
I have the same problem - would like attributes at the kit level, not product level. Did you fix this?
I assume you also had an issue with not being able to see kit items on the order and invoice screens, where kit information is lost and you only see the comnination of units.
Can you help?
Re: Display product kit attributes
Yup I need this too, more so attribute options are set at the product kit creation point. It would seem like that would work for what you need too, rather than just a global setting for all. If anyone has any insights on this you have no idea how much it would help me. I have one more day to work this out before we opt to drop attributes all together and just make duplicates of all our products with each attribute option which obviously would utterly suck.
Cheers!
Re: Display product kit attributes
I agree with the previous poster that the best way to handle this seems like it would be to be able to attach attributes to a product kit rather than having a global value, etc.
Doesn't seem like a great deal of code modification would be needed, though I'm still working through the learning curve, so I can't whip off a patch or module to solve the issue myself.
Of course the quick and dirty solution would be to hide all but one of the products attribute options, and then use a bit of javascript (jquery would make it fairly painless) to set the others to the same value when its value(s) is(are) changed..
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Good quick & dirty solution to this, tcindie. Was wondering if there had been any more movement on this by anyone, though. I have a situation where one purchases a video collection.
Easy way to think of this: Let's say a user wants to buy a whole season of their favorite internet tv show. They can buy individual episodes (products) from the site in either DVD or VHS format. A season would be a collection (product kit) of the appropriate episodes (products). It would be weird to have it so that the user could purchase 8 out of 9 episodes for the season in DVD format and 1 in VHS.
While I guess one could simply create a new "product" for the collection, this would necessitate that the packaging of the collection was done in advance and not packaged on-demand due to stock level issues and such. It just seems like a waste when weights, dimensions, stock levels are all tied to the product nodes and yet silly to have someone choose each individual product's attributes in such a case.
It does sound like a case for a special product kit derivative module or something. Or maybe simply a module that implements tcindie's quick and dirty solution? Any ideas?
Product Kit Attributes?
How can one add attributes to a product kit?
We definitely could use this capability.
Has this capability been developed and if so where might I find it?