Advice on best way to show characteristics SOLVED

Morning all,

I could do with a little advice.

I hae set up a shop which is a lending library and everthing is working great so far.

When customers request to loan an item they can choose the semester or term the loan is for - autumn, spring or summer.

I can set up a chrahteristic, but the term has to be selected individually for each item. Is there a way of selecting the term globally either before adding items to the cart - or maybe applying on checkout.

The only way I can think of is to make 3 seperate shops with the same products, so customer selects shop autumn, shop spring, or shop summer.

I'm hoping there's a better way, mainly because if we update or add a product, we'll have to do it 3 times.

Any ideas for a possiblle solution would really be appreciated. site is here:

www.wslr.co.uk/index.php/resources-catalogue

hanks all,

Ian

I'm making some progress and think I'm doing the right thing, but can't make it appear in the checkout screen.

I've made a new custom field in the orders table - this is a drop down menu with 4 options.

It doesn't show on checkout. What am I doing wrong??

Ian

This is sorted now.

It didn't work on my system but now does!!!

I'm sure I didn't do anything differently.

Ian

Thank you Nicolas

Ian