Price change on attribute?

[Dragen]

Hi,

Is there a way in which I can make the product price change depending on the attribute specified?
What I've got is an item which is a boxed set of several items, which you can also buy individualy. I want to have a drop down box where you can specify which items you wish to buy (i.e; all of them, just the mug, the mug and coaster etc). Obviously the price wont be the same for just one item as it would be for all of them.

I do not want to have them all as separate items.

Or am I able to somehow change the component to a dropdown, which changes price depending on the selection?


Thankyou

Lee

[jont]

This functionality is not available out of the box but can can hack the templates using Javascript to force the page to display a new price upon changing the selection.

I have seen this implemented on an Actinic site (can't remember the URL but think it was a picture framing site) ... some automated functionality of Actinic is lost but for that particular site the automatic change of price worked wonders.

[jont]

Lee - are you looking to change the price on the product page or would the cart page suffice?

[Dragen]

Well I can list all the seperate prices for the items on the product page, but I guess the price only has to actually change on the cart so that the customer is charged correctly.

[jont]

If it is just in the cart you can set the products to use associated products (making them optional components) and set the pricing model accordingly - this will change dynamically in the cart but you will need to add the prices into the associated products HTML to display on the product page - alas this is a manual entry and not dynamic

[Dragen]

Thanks,
That only works for a component though doesn't it? If so is there a way of making it work for an attribute, because I would quite like it to use a drop-down box and components only seem to be check boxes.

[jont]

Against the attribute you can use the "select using" and you have the option of radio buttons or a drop down box. Using this method is not always ideal but it can be made to work - albeit a bit of a cludge - depending on how you want the presentation on the screen

[Dragen]

What html do I need to implement to change the price?

[jont]

The usual solution is to set the base price and then add in the components ... the price can be entered into the "HTML for name" to be displayed on the screen in the drop down box .. alas this is not automated so you have to manually enter the information (or use some funky database manipulation). If you have a look at the default installation there should be a couple of examples on how this is set up.

Unfortunately this does not change the actual main product price on the screen - that requires some hardcore programming to affect the change

[Dragen]

Ok, I understand all that, but does this mean that there is no way of using a drop down box to select the choices, which also changes the price?

Thanks

[wjcampbe]

Once the page is written to the site it does not change until the next time you upload the same page. The only way the price can change on the page is if the whole page is rewritten.

It is possible to use javascript or server side php or asp to force the page to reload when a selection is changed, and it is possible for those scripts to change what is written.

It is not possible to make that happen without adding something to the standard Actinic page.

[Dragen]

Sorry if I haven't been quite clear with what I want.
I don't mind about the price on the product page changing when a selection is made. What I want is like with a component where you can make it add to the price on the basket, except I would like it to be using a drop down box instead of checkboxes.
I know I can use an attribute with a drop down box, but I can't seem to change the price using an attribute.

Hopefully I clearer this time.

Thankyou