Choices Drop Down Names Problem

[saucysal]

On my current live Version 7 website I have choices of flavours of products in drop down lists, eg the product title Dietimeal Pudding/Shake Mix, Box of 7 Sachets, and the a drop list of Natural, Oatmeal or Maple. As I have checked the box in the Permutations tag "Name from Associated Product", it will give the full product name in the cart, eg Dietimeal Pudding/Shake Mix, Box of 7 sachets, Maple". If I do not check this box it just says, "Choice: Maple" in the cart, which could be anything! So, everything is fine in Version 7.

Now, in Version 8, if I do it the same, to get the full title from the associated product in the cart, rather than just the flavour name, the drop down lists appear in the test shop changes from just the names of the flavours to the full titles from the hidden products. I want just the flavour names, eg Maple, to appear the the drop-down list, which is what I have set in the Actinic software to be the Choices.

How to I get, in Version 8, the drop down list to show just the flavour names that I have entered in the Actinic software as the Choices (Component: Attribute: Choice) for the drop down list?

Sarah

[TraceyHand]

I have a site set up exactly the same way and, interestingly, when I was testing V9, I imported my V8 site into V9 and had exactly the same problem which support struggled to recreate and I didn't get to the bottom of.

The newest V9 seems fine so I don't know what caused it. I can only recommend ensuring your V8 component layouts are consistent with your V7 site and perhaps, if you don't have customisation on your layouts, revert a few back to factory (Design > Library Find the layout in question. Right Click and 'revert to factory settings'. You may want to do a 'compare' first just to see if there are any differences)

It's interesting that you've experienced the same issue doing V7-V8 as I did initially doing V8-V9. I'm just sorry I don't have a solution

[saucysal]

Perhaps it will sort itself in 9?

Hello Tracey. Thank you for replying. Nice to know somebody else had a similar problem, as so far all the problems that I have had seem to be unique to me and I have been wondering why. Is it my deodorant?

I had to change the permutation layout in Version 8, so that I could get the stock control of choices (out of stock appearing in drop down list of choices), so perhaps it is related to that. I don't want to undo that, as the stock control is important to me. It is more important than the name of the Choice in the drop-down list being as I want it.

I am planning to get Version 8 up and running live at least roughly right before upgrading to Version 9 (I have to get staff processing orders on networked computers as soon as possible). It could be that when I upgrade again the problem will sort itself, though in your case the problem didn't arise until then.

It has taken so long for me to sort out Version 8 that Version 9 was written, Beta tested and released before I finished developing 8.

Would be nice to know if anybody else out there has had the same problem as you and I, and if they found a satisfactory solution, preferably one that didn't involve changing any layouts.

Sarah

[TraceyHand]

I had to change the permutation layout in Version 8, so that I could get the stock control of choices (out of stock appearing in drop down list of choices), so perhaps it is related to that. I don't want to undo that, as the stock control is important to me. It is more important than the name of the Choice in the drop-down list being as I want it.

That's more than likely what caused the change.
In order to show the out of stock message, I believe that you need to use a dropdown layout that shows each permutation that the message would refer to.
It'd make more sense when, for example, using 2 attributes (ie size and colour) where you'd need the full product name to tally the 'out of stock' against.

It's likely to be this 'out of stock message' change that has affected the look rather than the upgrade.

[TraceyG]

Hi Sarah,

This is because the variable is used in the layout to get the associated product name. The workaround is to:

- click on the drop-down box in the preview pane on the 'Design' tab
- the layout code window should show 'Drop-down Permuation List' layout
- double-click on the variable in this layout (should be something like 'Drop Down Permutation Entry')
- look for the variable 'AssociatedProduct::ProductName' and replace it with:

<actinic:variable name="PermutationChoiceList" value="Permutation Choice Name List" />

- click 'Apply changes' and your drop-down boxes should take the name of the choice rather than the associated product name.