Varying characteristics for individual products

Hi

I am setting up my hika shop to sell t-shirts which are available in different sizes (gents, ladies, kids) and different colours.

However not all t-shirts are available in all sizes or colours. Is it possible to edit the variants for each item or would i have to set up a different set of variants for each item which corresponds with a set of colours or sizes?

Amazing program you guys have put together, So well done! We are trying to add this to our new website, but having trouble with the exact question here.

I have several sizes needed for my clothing apparel. The first set of variants "Jacket Size (S, M, L etc.)" show up great, but any more added will either give me a 500 error or the last 3 Characteristics will not show their variants.

Here is the current link:

mediaks.com/UD2/index.php?option=com_hik...ayout=show&Itemid=13

Is there a workaround with this? I am really hoping to use HikaShop as our shopping cart, it just has SO many features!

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

nicolas wrote:

Hi,

After you added your characteristics to a product, you can the click on the "manage variants" button to edit the different variants and/or delete the ones you don't need. So you can do it.

However, please be careful about adding too many variants to a product: each combination of values is generated. If you have 10 values for each characteristic, that means 1000 variants generated automatically in one page. It can be too much for some shared hostings.
In that case, I would recommend to split them in different characteristics so that the system generates less than a few hundred of variants. That will also reduce your work as you will have less variants to delete. You can have several characteristics with the same name so no problem with the display ( note the id down to know which one you want to use when editing the products).

I need help on this subject myself.

03320b1.netsolhost.com/pastrystarproduct.../category_pathway-16

^^ Here's what I'm working on... the three different sizes we offer for this product (and most of the jams are 10 lbs., 20 lbs., and 50 lbs., I would like to have the consumer be able to select the size they would like and have the information below change per selection. As we also list the skid size for the size they require or would like to purchase, and they will change with the choice of 10, 20 and 50 lbs. pails. Please reply when you can regarding this subject.

ReillyDavidson21060 wrote:

I need help on this subject myself.

03320b1.netsolhost.com/pastrystarproduct.../category_pathway-16

^^ Here's what I'm working on... the three different sizes we offer for this product (and most of the jams are 10 lbs., 20 lbs., and 50 lbs., I would like to have the consumer be able to select the size they would like and have the information below change per selection. As we also list the skid size for the size they require or would like to purchase, and they will change with the choice of 10, 20 and 50 lbs. pails. Please reply when you can regarding this subject.

Now see I did all that, I added the Characteristics BEFORE adding the product, then managed the variants, then tested the page and it did not work for me. I checked all that before contacting this board actually. If I were to type in the description field anything "(i.e.) the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog" and something completely different in a variants description that would change, but my custom fields would not.

Thanks a lot, I'll let you know if there are any problems with this, so far it seems good, but that's because I didn't add all the products yet, fearing I would have to do them over.

I'm having a new problem, I would like to remove the item box background color, or simply make it the same as the website's background, but no matter what I choose, it continues to be the original gray color.

Thank you! That worked out for me!

One last question, and it doesn't belong here, but hopefully you'll be flagged to help me since you've been so useful so far.

I don't like Joomla's search function, and it seems like the one for 1.6 keeps crashing in Google Chrome, I noticed I have plugin's for search modules in Joomla, all we need our search to do is search the products I setup in HikaShop, how do I setup said module to be displayed and work? If that makes any sense at all, please help me. Thank you.

Just did, performed one search, came out great, however I performed another search (measure twice, cut once), and the attached image is what popped up, it simply looks like the results page, just didn't come out Joomla is supposed to. Again, I'm using Chrome 11+ so chances are there is a compatibility issue not with your software, but perhaps on Joomla's behalf, but please take a look and see if you can't figure it out. Thanks again.

It does it often, however simply hitting refresh finishes the rendering of the page it seems.

It does it no matter what I search for.

I don't notice a error at all, it just seems like the raw script appears instead of the render.

Okay, well now what I thought was only a Google Chrome error, seems to be a error on Mozilla as well, resulting in the following...

nternal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator,
 [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
</body></html>

0

HTTP/1.1 303 See other
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:54:30 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Location: http://03320b1.netsolhost.com/component/search/?searchword=compounds&ordering=&searchphrase=all&Itemid=435
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>200 OK</title>
</head><body>
<h1>OK</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator,
 [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
</body></html>