Dropdown menues on product pages

Hi Nicolas and Cie,
I'm at odds creating dropdown menues for my product pages, I looked at your tutorial but frankly, it is not easy to follow.

The site sells soccer jerseys. The dropdown menues I need are always the same:
1 Size
2 Version
3 Player
4 Quantity

For every product page, I must be able to individually fill in the attributes. I'm at odds where exactly to start and how to proceed. Your tutorial is pretty vague for a novice.

I just got a little closer.

When I add the characteristics "size" "player" "version" and "quantity" under "products" then I'm asked to add values. Now, I added the values S/M/L/XL to size. When I then on the product page add Size, those values are listed. I can add values for version and quantity. But now comes the problem: how could I possibly add players from all over the world, every team etc.? This would be ridiculous. Those players I used to add in Virtuemart individually on every product page.
How to do?

I have now in each characteristic put in a (default) value, e.g. for size: choose your size, for version: choose your version, etc. After I make a product page, I add the characteristic and they show on the right size, but where do I add now the values, like S, M & XL or S, M, L & XL? etc.

Hi there,

Your questions are a little messy, could you please write a post with clear answers?
About the characteristics for example, you first said you displayed the sizes in the product pages and then you say you want to display it.
For the players, I guess you can add a custom field of type input so your customers could type the player's name.
The other solution would be to create a characteristic as well.

Eliot, I think my questions are quite clear. Please go and have a look here .
Your suggestion the customers typing in what they want is not what I need.
For the players I need a drop-down menu which shows exactly every player of the team we have available and: some players cost more because we might don't have a name and number set.
I know it's perfectly feasable, because Jerome told me so.

Ok, so the solution will just be to :
- Create your "Player" characteristic through "Hikashop->Products->Characteristics"
- Add every player in this characteristic
- Add this characteristic through your product's "characteristic" tab

But what do you exactly want to do when you don't know the name and number of the player ?

- "Add every player in this characteristic"

What do you mean? I enter 50 teams x 24 players = 1'200 players in one dropdown menu???? Can Jerome answer me?

Nicolas,

In Virtuemart (2 years ago) I made a characteristic for the players, without having to put any players names. So on every product page for the players I had empty fields where I could enter the names and player numbers of that players specific team, here in this example for Italy's AC Milan: