Prices for choice lists, please help!

[Recoding]

Okay, I have made 2 posts so far about this problem, and so far one person replied, giving me a link to two other posts, which I am afraid didn't help me.

In short the products on my webpage (http://dev.access-irrigation.net) work fine. Unless they have a choice list, such as this item: http://dev.access-irrigation.net/aca...tion_Kits.html

As you can see it gives parsing errors, I have no idea what causes these and i have reset all of the possible settings to the factory settings in the Design>>Library>>Layouts and still I get this problem.

All I would like is a working layout that gives you basically the below image:


If someone could please help me, it would really help, my deadline is getting ever closer

-Dan.

[Confused Sally]

Hi Dan,
I am fairly new to this myself and have spent all day struggling with choices and attributes, but for a little light relief I thought I would give your problem a go!

I have not resolved it completely but perhaps someone else can take the ball and run with it.

This is how far I have got

1. You are trying to combine 2 factors a, width of the tunnel kit and b, length of the line

in order to combine these you wil need a push button grid.

so firstly create your product - Twin Line....Kits (as one product)

secondly within that product create a component - which for now I shall call size

Within the component create 2 attributes, one attribute called width - give it as many choices as you have widths, then another attribute called length, give that one as many choices as you have lengths (10m, 12.5M etc)

So now you have a drop down tree with a product a component and 2 attributes each with several choices.

Go back to the component 'Size' [in the general tab I have ticked 'component as separate order line' I am not sure if this is right.- need help here]

In Component go to Layout, change component layout to component layout with attributes and price grid

In Width attribute - change attribute layout to 'no layout'

In Length attribute - change attribute layout to 'no layout'


OK this is as far as I have got, I am as yet unsure how to get the prices in but I am sure someone else can take it from here. I just played with this a bit, I suspect you will need hidden products for the different permutations of the item.

Hope its helpful, if not please ignore, better still contact support I am sure they will help you out.

Sally

[Confused Sally]

OK this is as far as I have got,

http://www.threadsandpatches.co.uk/a...unnelling.html

this is a mock up grid I made ith the above istructions, hope it helps

Sally

[jont]

Dan - could the parsing error be due to the decimal points in your HTML? Have you tried setting a product with radios as a full integer and seeing how that responds when outputting. The 2 fields can be different (choice name and HTML name as shown on screen). Worth ruling out if you are sure all layouts are back to factory.

[Recoding]

Hey again,
Sally I tried your idea completely and I am afraid it still threw up some errors, it seems this is i not the problem

jont
I have found out that the cause of this problem is the PermutationPriceRaw, for some unknown reason it says that it is out of context, therefore not saying anything, meaning that there are some missing parts to the function formattedcurrency(), please see this post for the full details. (Although at the time of this post, the post i am referring to has not yet been approved.)

Thanks again for your help.

-Dan.

[jont]

out of context

This usually means the variable / layout is not expected to work at the position it is being used .. being used out of context. It will often list it say 10 times ... this relates to the number of times it is being used on the page (10 products, 10 fragments etc on that page). Not all variables / layouts work in all places on the site hence the error.

[Recoding]

I understand that, but if you look at this link, it shows a image that shows it is perfectly fine, right? I can't see what would be the problem

[jont]

Next to the "select page type" the exclamation error is red showing there is an issue ... something has to be wrong somewhere or it thinks it is.

As daft as it sounds - this is Actinic - try selecting another section and then focus back and see if the error goes (this can happen with some location specific variables eg: IsBrochureHomePage which can flag when opening onto the homepage first)

[Recoding]

this problem seems to be site wide, every place there is a product that has choices, there is a error, totaling at 323 now.
I think i might have found out what might be the issue, basically i wanted a system like i said in the first post and i have noticed that i have two prices, please see screenshot.
As i wanted to create the system i described in my first post, i created another price system, and i think its because the price system goes in twice that it breaks.
So now i know that below the errors i have a working length, and working price, but no radio button. How could I include that?

Thankyou again for your help, I am so glad we are finally getting somewhere

[EDIT]
I noticed this after i tried resetting all the layouts, after your recommendations jont, i hope the above post explains it better[/EDIT]

[EDIT2]
Also the error was on the variable PermutationPriceRaw, it was saying it was out of context, as i said above this was probably as i used it twice[/EDIT2]

[Recoding]

I have just done somthing I didn't think would work, but proves my point exactly,
I used the standard radio button attribute, and put it into the layout, i also put it inside the list of permutations, this is what i got:

It shows that for some reason, a valid layout does not work as it should, why is this? what can I do to fix it?

[jont]

Have you reset the price layouts? There are several and are horridly nasty things that easily break by just looking at them.

[Recoding]

I reset Prices in Design>>Library...>>Layouts and tried to reset 'Prices for Customer Accounts' but it could not find any thing to revert to.

I really have no idea what could be causing this, I tried editing the selector, to see if i changed the properties of the actual holder, if that would allow the use in context, but no luck

Thankyou jont so far for replying, i just hope we can find a solution.

[Recoding]

For some reason I am now working from home, with Actinic open on VNC...
Anyway, i got the dropdown list to work perfectly, so what is it that makes it so hard to have a radio button list? I wish was simple.