Changing product reference

[stonda]

The title is probably not the good one !
For some products I propose differents colours but only one reference. I offer the differents colours in the attribute list. For example the product ref 111 can be bought in green or blue. When client buy the product I get the information for the code and the attribute value, green or blue. In my invoice software there are two codes for this product : 111G for the green one and 111B for the blue one.
So my question is : is there a way to get the similar information in Actinic : when a client choose the product 111, and tick blue, I would like to get ref 111B from Actinic.

[Bruce]

Create hidden products with the specific product references and then associate the choices to the hidden products so it takes its values from there.

Kind regards,

[stonda]

I tried this : create, for a product 111, one hidden product 111B in blue and one 111G in green. Then add component detail and associate each component detail to a hidden product. It works, but the client can choose all the possibilities : when he chosse Ref 111, he can add 111B and 111G. I need the component detail to be exclusive : client cannot choose more than one possibility. And this seems to be possible only for attributes details, not for components. So ?
Best regards. Didier

[wjcampbe]

Didier,

would it work if you make 111B the main product, and offer only one component choice of 111G?

[stonda]

Yes as I have only one choice. But for some product I must propose them in 4 colours, so I have 4 component choices. And customer can choose the 4 !

[wjcampbe]

To make only one choice possible you must use radiobutton to lay out the choices.

[stonda]

Hi Bill. I don't see what you mean. For example on this page :
http://www.supreme.fr/acatalog/inter.html
for DOM7M, you can choose between brown, black and white as colour for pool table. But product reference is always the same. It seems that I have two possibilities to propose the choice :
1. I use Attribute and I cannot associate hidden product to the choice.
2. I use component, I can associate hidden product, but I cannot get exclusive choice.

[wjcampbe]

Sorry Didier I did not see this reply.

Once you add component, then you add the Attribute to the Component and the Choices to the attribute. If you return now to the component, there is a new tab "Permutations" - on this tab, you can assign a product link to each permutation. That should accomplish what you want.

[stonda]

Thank you Bill. It works perfectly !
Just some precisions : In the permutations zone, I configure like this : valid is ticked, Pricing : Associated product price (I don't see the difference between this, component prices and override ?), Product : I select the hidden product, and ticked "Name from associated product". Is this correct ?
Best regards. Didier

[wjcampbe]

Didier,

Valid ticked - yes

Pricing - if you have set the price on the hidden products this is fine. Component price would be if you have a price on the visible product and want to specify an additional amount to charge for the component, override would be if you want to change the price and specify a new one for the product + component (only used if both product and component are offered separately elsewhere in the catalog).

Name from associated - again this setting will depend on how you name the hidden product/component attribute - I would expect that you have the right setting.

[stonda]

Bill,
Price is shown near the visible product, and there is no surcharge for the component : it is just a choice of colour generally. So I can probably use component price, put the hidden product with value 0, and use "sum of product and component prices", in the pricing model.
I see on another post to Christine that it is not possible to prevent from ordering a product which is out of stock if we use permutation : it means that Actinic allows the order for the hidden product, then check if stock is > 0, and if not, send an error message ?

[wjcampbe]

No Actinic does not allow the order. It allows add to cart, but stops the customer from checking out and shows the error message on screen.

[stonda]

Thanks Bill, for your help

[stonda]

It works, but now I have the main product on the basket with the price and the hidden product too. What is the solution to get only one product ?
For example product is pool cloth, choice are green and blue (two product hidden : pool cloth blue and pool cloth green). When client choose Pool cloth as product and green as colour, I need to see in the basket only the hidden product "pool cloth green".

[wjcampbe]

Bug - cannot exclude product line from cart

As soon as a component is added to a product and the separate line in cart option is selected, an additional checkbox should appear on the general tab of the visible product which allows setting of no main product line in cart - this is not happening for me on 8.0.4