selectable permuation grid... is it possible?

[Donna Kempster]

Hi all

Is it possible to have a permuation grid that is selectable? I've looked at all the options and played about with it for most of the morning but i can't seem to get it to do what I want!

letter A £2.95 2
letter B £2.95 4
letter c £2.95 0

etc

Add to basket in go

At the moment I've got it as a drop down menu (radio buttons would be fine if you could check more than one at a time and have different quantites for each selection??

Cheers
D

[NormanRouxel]

If you want more than one Quantity box then you really need separate products and a single-add-to-cart page layout.

It should be possible with a very concise product layout (just the Quantity field and Description containing just the letter "A", "B", etc) to get a grid of quantity fields.

The only tricky bit is then to get a heading on this page. A Fragment perhaps, with a different layout that spans the entire page width.

[Donna Kempster]

Thanks Norman I'll have a play .... weather permitting! ?I'll post if I think the result is worth it!!!

[NormanRouxel]

Try using Bare Product List as the Product List Layout for this page.

Use a Fragment Layout for the initial Fragmentt that's inside a DIV with CSS width:100% and put a <br clear="all"> at the end of that layout.

Then put a DIV around each tiny product layout that uses a class with CSS e.g. width:50px; float:left;

Tweak that 50px so the required number fit across the page.

[leehack]

You can also with a bit of jiggery pokey achieve something like this - http://www.hobuk.co.uk/acatalog/AUGER_BITS.html - where each row is a product and can be individually added in different quantities. Can have add to cart on each row or my preferred solution having a single add to cart button for the page.

[Donna Kempster]

That is very much the sort of thing I'm looking for, not for all products but for certain ones where customers choose a variety of lengths from the same design or a series of letters as in the above example. I'm going to have a play with it this pm (with Normans guidance notes) and see how I get on lol. Hopefully I'll be able to show off my success soon ...

Is there anything in the code of the page you've showed that will give me some clues?

D

[leehack]

Rough outline of the setup is this:

1. Fragment at top detailing product details
2. Compact product layout to show each product on a row
3. Custom product list layout, so that you can open and close the initial table containing the top fragment (top row) and then reopen it to provide the table of products (middle rows)
4. <tr> are done within the list layout
5. <td> are part of the product layout
6. Use listindex == 2 to include the set of table headers <TH> above the first product listed
7. Single add to cart button

Get a fragment on top and products listed below with single add to cart button, then go inside the list layout (create a new one) and get clever, just down to html skills then and understanding thoroughly how a list layout and more importantly how the html for a table is formed.

[Donna Kempster]

Rough outline of the setup is this:

1. Single add to cart button

I'm struggling to get a single add to cart button on this section only I can't see where it is other than on the main site design and this puts it on every section which I don't want. I think I've looked in all product layouts but I can't see where it is. I had a nice pattern with a grid of some sort but no quantity and an add to cart button on every line. If I could find the single add cart bit I could move on... driving me nuts! Will keep looking sure its staring me in the face!! Thanks D

[leehack]

You set it on the section itself, basically overriding the site settings, one of the first 2 or 3 tabs from memory. Quantity on product pages also needed in design - design options.