Need Drop Down Menus?

[lwilliams114]

When I am listing products some of them have various selections like color, size, etc...I need about 5 drop down menus for puchase selections. Is there a simple way to make them work with OSCmax?
Thanks very much for your help.
Lynn

[met00]

product attributes.

or, I feel the better option is to go with the family products contribution.

Now, it's true that product attributes was created just for this situation, but I have a problem that I have 20 rolls of paper with each being a different colour. Seems like a good use for product attributes, but in fact each product (item+colour) is actually a different SKU. So, product attributes doesn't work as well as I would hope (since I really then need to add a SKU to the attributes I apply to each product, and when you have many products and many attributes, it's a pain in the butt, as well as a hack in the code). With products families I am able to create a master product and then a series of slaves. The slaves all get listed under the master. So when someone is looking for paper rolls of 48"x1000' they can find that product, and then select the item and under it they have add-to-cart buttons next to every product colour and a listed SKU (this helps since about 25% of my orders come in as FAX'd PO's).

So, while attributes will work for many. If you have SKUs associated to the attributes, then you amy want to look in a different area for a solution.

[lwilliams114]

I appreciate the input MET00 but where would you look to find what I need?
Thanks

[met00]

osc family products - Google Search

[fourmat]

Hey Met00

I have a questions about the Family products. I have installed Family Products 3.0+ and I haven't seen a way to add the master product like you had mentioned. This implementation of FP really is more like a crosssell than a product grouping. It just lists the family products at the bottom of a Am I missing something or not installing the right mod?

Also, the family products 3.0+ mod doesn't work with SPPC....is there a location that explains this also? Thanks!

[met00]

Version I'm using:
/includes/modules/family_products.php - Version 1.3.2

You can see it in operation
here: - PACON - Riverside® Groundwood Construction Paper 18X24 [paconrivcp1218] - - Discount School Supplies - Discount Education Supplies from Education 4 Kids, Inc. : - PACON - Riverside® Groundwood Construction Paper 18X24 [paconrivcp1218] -
and here Baracuda G3 Parts - G3 Cleaner Parts : H2O Pool Products

In both cases we have used the family products to handle the parent-child relationship.

Now here is an entirely different implementation of the same idea. We have grouped together like items (in this case all the CDs from one artist) Greg & Steve (Greg and Steve - Entire Collection) [gands-collection] - - Discount School Supplies - Discount Education Supplies from Education 4 Kids, Inc. : Greg & Steve (Greg and Steve - Entire Collection) [gands-collection] -
But we left the individual items "active" so that when you click on that item it will load that items description up, but still list all the other items below it (unlike the first two examples where you only get the master products description).

It should be noted that we did a great deal of hacking to the module to get specific types of functionality, but for 99% of most uses the basic module would do (the last example was one of the many things we did to extend the module).

We did have to add the SPPC patch to the module, but that is really just a cut and paste (or in our case, a cut into a function and then a call to the function)

[fourmat]

Hi Met00,

Thanks for the reply. I have looked through the contributions and my personal contrib archive, but I can't find one with the version 1.3.2 that you have. Do you know where this version might be had?

[met00]

Here is the source we started from. Please note that these have to be played with quite a bit to integrate the way we have them. (also note that they are NOT in english throughout.... so the comments and code can be fun to read)