Replicating Virtuemart child products

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11 years 6 months ago #100642

I am migrating a site from Virtuemart but am having trouble representing the child products using characteristics in Hikashop.

The sort of thing I am trying to do can be seen here...
https://www.artistpapers.co.uk/Fine-Art-Papers/Sequential-Art-Surfaces/Strathmore-200-Series-Bristol

I know Hikashop doesn't have child products in the way Virtuemart does, I am working on the basis that the details of the variants such as "Unit", "Size" and "Sheets" need to be configured as characteristics but I can't get my sub products to display properly. Sorry this is a bit vague but looking at the link to the original site above can anybody talk me through how this should be setup, or even confirm that what I want to do can actually be achieved with Hikashop?

Many thanks,

Ian

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11 years 6 months ago #100690

Hi,

What I can see on that link is not to be done with characteristics so no wonder you're having a hard time :)

You should create first custom product fields via the menu Display->Custom fields, one per attribute.
Then, you would create an unpublished category.
Then, in that category, you would create one product per variant of your product and specify the value for each custom product field, its price, etc.
Then, in your main product, you would add your variant products as "related products".
Finally, you would edit the related products module in order to display the products in a table layout and turn on the add to cart button.

That should give a result quite close to the link you provided.

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11 years 6 months ago #100752

Hi Nicolas, thank you for the very prompt reply.

So that solution would have a similar effect, but it seems a bit inelegant to me, and if I am using "related Products" to list child products how would I show actual related products, which I need to be able to do?

What is puzzling me is that after importing my products from Virtuemart the child/parent relationship is maintained. I notice that if I click on "Manage Variants" I see the correct child products listed, along with variants created when I (incorrectly) adding the characteristics - see image1

Would it be possible therefore to produce a version of the related products module that shows these child products with the custom fields you suggested? These could be managed via the "Manage Variants" admin option which would need to be enabled even if new characteristics haven't been set (currently this button is greyed out until a new characteristic has been added)?

It seems Hikashop is so close to being able to replicate this powerful feature of VM1 - just needs a few tweaks! I hope you can help?

Many thanks.

Ian

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11 years 6 months ago #101024

Hi,

You would indeed not be able to use related products as related products anymore in that case.

If you want to use characteristics/variants for that, the issue is that the products listing module has not been made to display variants so you won't be able to display the variants of the product as a table on the product page. The variants will display as a dropdown where the user can select the variant he wants and add it to the cart. If you want the variants to display as a table on the product page, that would require a heavy custom work but its not impossible.

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11 years 6 months ago #101025

Hi Nicolas,

nicolas wrote: Hi,

If you want the variants to display as a table on the product page, that would require a heavy custom work but its not impossible.


I'd like to achieve this, is it something you could quote me to do?

Ian

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11 years 6 months ago #101273

We could potentially develop that for you yes. If interested, you can use our contact form to request a quote.

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