unique component options

[davidfarndon]

Does anyone know how I might manage to do this?

I have a client for whom I building an actinic site (v7.0.1. developer) they sell office furniture and I want to be able to have (as an example) :

a chair = £x

options which change price ... of which only one should be selectable
star base option A : adds £5
star base option B : adds £10
star base option C : adds £15 ... etc. maybe a drop down box

and a second drop down box containing the various fabric options. These don't currently effect the price .. but potentially they might (so that would be useful to know too).

at the moment I have it working sort of ok with components, the last one component containing an attribute with choices to allow the fabric colour to be selected - but this all seems a bit ham fisted and the components (which are optional of course) presently can ALL be selected .. which makes no sense .. the base can only be one choice (can't have grey, black AND chrome .. only the one!)

is there a better way of doing this?

thanks

David

[Nadeem]

Hi David,

I'm afraid you are using the right way of setting this up. Having two dropdown list, one for the star base option and the other for the colours.

presently can ALL be selected .. which makes no sense .. the base can only be one choice (can't have grey, black AND chrome .. only the one!)

I can't quite picture what you mean by this, do you have a sample product for us to take a look at? Perhaps provide us with your website link?

Kind Regards

[davidfarndon]

thanks for getting back to me.

sure .. if you go to www.berkshireofficefurniture.com and potter through to the online shop, http://80.247.0.66/secure/acatalog/Seating.html (for instance) select workforce .. you will see a few office chairs... some of these have options which are unique (i.e. .. you can have a aluminium base OR a black base .. but not both) and also an option of various fabrics. A good example of this is the "Milton Swivel".

I really would like to be able to control the selection options a bit better... using check boxes if okay (for the various options).. but it allows the inept to actually select aluminium AND black ... which would result in the client having to chase customers to find out which they really want (not really the idea).

radio buttons, or another drop down list would be better .. which allowed only one option to be selected for the bases, or arms or whatever (these potentially alters final price) whereas the fabric (currently anyway) doesn't alter the price, it's just a choice .. though it may come that that might need to have an impact on price too.

D

[Nadeem]

Hi there David

If we can the example "First Class", you could have 3 component attached to it.
The first component, would have an attribute and choice for the base
The second component would have addon including arm rest
The third component would have just colours.

All you would need to do, is to set the permutation on the first and second components to override the product with prices. This should work.

Do you understand?

Kind Regards