Characteristic, option or custom field

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4 years 2 months ago #327795

Hi Guys,

Some advice please.I print textile and people can choose from 200+ different prints.
I have multiple products on which these prints can be ordered, so naturally I would like to update the list of prints once in Hikashop and not add each new variant to the products once there is a new print available.

So, I guess adding it as a characteristic on the products is out of the question.
Would it be better to :

1) Create a custom field single drop down and add that to the possible products, but not have the option of displaying the image of choice?
2) Create a product with the prints as variants and use that product as an option on the other products?

or, is there maybe a different approach I should consider?

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4 years 2 months ago #327803

Hi,

I would recommend using a custom field of the table "item".
You could use the "radio" type. In each value of the custom field, you could enter an img tag, with the URL of the print image in the src attribute, as "title".
That way, the custom item field would display for all the products and the customers would see the image of the print when selecting it.

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4 years 2 months ago #327804

Great, I'm going to try that. Displaying an image would be great!

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4 years 2 months ago #327805

Your suggestion is awasome! Thanks.
For the images I requested it for it won't work really, as there are 200+ and that would make the product page HUGE.
However, on a different product I can use it for a color selection and later on also for a font selection.



Above is with first the img tag, then the color name and then a br tag to keep them inline :)

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4 years 2 months ago #327807

Now I wonder if it's possible to do a similar action with a single drop down that will show an image after a selection has been made?

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4 years 2 months ago #327808

Hi,

To have an image refresh when a dropdown is selected that would require custom development.

Here is a potential idea for your prints:
You could have two images: a small one and a big one for each print.
And in the value's title, you could use a modal tag on top of the img tag thanks to this extension :
regularlabs.com/extensions/modals
Then, we some CSS, you could even remove the radios and instead display a dynamic border on the selected image, and have several images on each line.
So that might be workable even though it would still take quite some space.

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