How to Have a VARIANT with a CHARACTARISTIC List?

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12 years 4 months ago #57443

I have a product that has three SIZE variants: 80g, 100g, 120g with each variant having a different price. Now, each of those STILL NEEDS a colour Characteristic drop down: Red, Gree, Blue, etc...30 different colours.

Basically the customer needs to SELECT a SIZE and COLOUR for the item.
Changing SIZE changes the price.
Changing the colour does not affect price.

On the product page, the Size Variant drop down is working fine, but the COLOUR drop down says: No values found

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12 years 4 months ago #57462

You should not use a characteristic for the colour selection. Otherwise, you will have to set a price for each combination variant of size and colour.
Instead you should use a custom field of the table "item" for the colour selection:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...p-field-listing.html
Or an option:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ct-form.html#options

The no values found means that you didn't add the two characteristics at the same time. You would have to do that to make it work:
1. Delete all the variants of the product on the listing of variants that you can access via the button "manage variants" on the product edition screen.
2. Delete the characteristics of the product.
3. Save the product.
4. Add the characteristics again.
5. The system will regenerate all the variants automatically and you should be able to see the dropdowns properly on the front end.

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12 years 4 months ago #57465

The SIZE was set up as an option.

OK, I set up a Custom Field called hair_colour and is a Single Dropdown.

AHA! I see, it shows up on the FRONT END on items in the Categories I selected.
Got it!

Thank you.

Last edit: 12 years 4 months ago by MSTACE.

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12 years 4 months ago #57523

This method works great but could use a couple of suggestions:

  • The options need to have sorting or made moveable (AJAX) as editing large lists of options is tedious.
  • The Custom Fields need to have access to a PRODUCT and not just a CATEGORY.

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12 years 4 months ago #57574

The options have an ordering. There is an order column you can fill in the listing of options of each products.

For custom fields, you can just create an unpublished category and attached it to the product as a second category and use it in your custom field. That way, the custom field will only display for that product.

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