Filtered Characteristics?

Hi,

Today I was using characteristics and variants for the first time, but I ran into a problem. We want to sell mobile computers (hand terminals) on our webshop, but you can get them with different options. So let's say I have 3 characteristics:

1. Scan engine: 1D or 2D
2. Camera: Yes or no
3. Bluetooth: Yes or no

Now, let's say that all the devices that have a 1D scan engine always have a camera. Then from the moment someone picks "1D" for the scan engine, the camera characteristic should no longer display the "no" option because there simply aren't any devices that meet those criteria.

I hope I made myself clear here. The problem now is that people can pick options that don't exist. Some devices have up to 6 or 7 characteristics with different options, and many combinations lead to a device that's not available. I notice that the "add to cart" button disappears when picking a variant that doesn't exist, so that's good, but ideally people should not be able to choose options that aren't available. I don't think there's any feature in Hikashop that allows you to set up "filtered characteristics" or something; it would make my life a lot easier, as I can't use it the way it is now because there are too many combinations that don't exist.

Hello obsolum,

I "had" the same problem, look here: http://www.hikashop.com/en/forum/4-how-to/76746-characteristis--options-with-rules.html

regards

Thanks but... that links is not working for me?

EDIT: nevermind, I removed the ] at the end. Reading it now, thanks.

EDIT 2: okay, so like I thought this isn't possible in Hikashop and requires altering the code of the view. I have insufficient knowledge of javascript and php to bother with that, so I guess I'll have to find a different workaround.

Thanks anyway.

Sorry about the link...my mistake.

Tomorrow I show you my workaround, I'm still working on it.

Maybe it works for you too.

Well...related products doesn't work for me. It adds the related product at the end of the product page, after comments section. For me the related product has to be near the main product.

So this is what I did:

Simply add a product in the description of the main product (you have a button for that) with the respective info. I made that with help of an 3 row, 1 column table.

This is the result:

In my case this workaround is fine for me.

Hope I helped,
Mainzer

I see what you did but this is not a workable workaround for me, there are too many different characteristics for the products we're selling. I'm glad you found a solution for your website, though

Thanks for your input.