price by weight

Hi, first off - thank you for Hikashop. I've been using Virtuemart, and Hikashop is a very welcome relief.

My question - how can I set up products to sell by weight?

I'm building an online butchers shop and need to sell, for example, Rump Steak at £15.70 per kilo but have the shopper choose whether they want 250g, 500g, 750g, 1 kilo or 1.5 kilo and be charged the appropriate price. Other products can be sold per unit, say burgers, so that's no problem. I suppose I use the product characteristics but can anyone explain how this could work.

Thanks

Great, thanks for that, but is there a way those prices can be worked out automatically from the one base price per Kilo?

so we used characteristics to this as described above, but then on the product listing page it says under price $2.99 each... ideally we would want it to be the variant label so $2.99 half-pint say...
which file would i edit to change this?

ahhh if it were only that easy i could have done it without help. LOL

i want the variation name to show up. i have for instance variations of half pint, pint and quart... each with a separate price...

will try that tomorrow... when my brain recovers

so i added that line: echo $this->element->measurement; to the listing_price template and it works on the main show page but not on the listing_img_desc page. is there a different way to call custom fields on this page...?

sorry, i got it.. actually if you want it to work in both screens you need to call
echo $this->row->measurement;

nicolas, where can i find the content for the links of the ajax popup when you have added something to the cart?
thanks Liz

how do i remove the custom field i just added to my product page from the default location, and just use it where i decide it should go ?

i created a custom field in product, and placed it as you suggested earlier in this topic to replace the 'Each', this is fine.

However it appears that you have also put a piece of code to display custom fields, so my custom field is called in a location where i didn't place any code.

So i have 'echo $this->row->{MYFIELDNAME};' in the listing_price template as described above and the field is disabled in front end. On the category view it reads the custom field as expected (next to the price), however on product page itself the custom field is not shown.

If i enable front end for the field i see it in the right place in category AND product page (next to the price) but also in product page i have it shown under a H4 heading 'Specifications'.

so i've ended up with the custom field disabled for the front end and this line in product / listing_price.php

echo $this->element->main->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN.$this->row->CUSTOM_FIELD_COLUMN