Cross variants products

Hi,

I have a problem, one of my products have two features, the color (white / black) and size (small, medium, large), but the black version exists only in medium and large version (not as small).

But even if I select the combination black / small as unpublished and inaccessible to all I still see it as an option to purchase in the frontend.

Is there a way to remove or hide this particular combination in the frontend (It's just to prevent any accidental selection by customer)?

Or I have to create two different and separated products?

Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the quick response.
I would rather not have the option to not confuse the customer, and not even visible.

I'll prepare two separate products, but thanks anyway for the good suggestion.

Hello,

2 things about this:

I do not have Sales start and end dates for variants (1.4.8 starter version)

If I unpublish or even delete the variant corresponding to a non-existing combination, it still is selectable in the front end. This is not really "expected behaviour".

For the time being, I'll change the out of stock message to "not available in this combination or out of stock"

[by the way, the date on you changelog pages indicate 2010]



...still discovering... loving it!

Stephan

Hi Nicolas,

2. Hmmm, not obvious!

You say "when you unpublish a variant, the choice is removed from the caracteristic dropdown" -- I only get an Out of stock message

But you also say "you still have all the possible values in the characteristics dropdown..." -- Yes, that is what I get... And that is what is confusing me (and probably Max) -- You STILL can select S & Yellow.

I (we) were expecting that if you select S in your example above, then Yellow should not appear in the "colour" dropdown!
I did some tests on the demo site and unless I am really not on the same wavelength with you (and that IS probable!), all options remain selectable in the dropdown lists whether or not a variant with those caracteristics exists.

I wish you can prove me wrong !
So, at this stage, I see no alternative but to use the modified "Out of Stock" message to explain that a variant does not exist.

Stephan

I see it but that is with only ONE caracteristic.

The moment you add a SECOND caracteristic, both caracteristics will appear ALWAYS.

IF I have the 6in/Blue AND 9in/Yellow THEN the 6in and Yellow options will appear in the drop down and give the "out of stock" message [with default price] EVEN if the 6in/Yellow variant is unpublished or deleted!

IF you don't have a 6in/Yellow variant, then the Expected behaviour should be : IF Yellow is selected THEN 6in should NOT appear OR IF 6in is selected THEN Yellow should not appear.

Note that I am rambling on about this although I can't imagine an easy solution to this, but then I am no developer.

Thanks for being so present Nicolas -- don't forget to take time off sometimes!

Stephan

That's what I thought

Thanks for making it clear.

Stephan

I am dealing with this issue and wondered what way you ended up going? Did you just change the out of stock message?

Yes. I put "out of stock or not available in this combination".

You can see it here : [url=http://http://www.panhamac.fr/product/365-tesiege/category_pathway-27]exemple out of stock[/url] by playing with the different options.

Not entirely satisfactory but I am not loosing any sleep over it.

Note that I have not tried the latest versions and do not know if any thing has changed in this regard.

Good luck.