I'm building configurable products on my Magento site (a simple way of showing each of our textiles with the swatches of the different colors of the same item under the main product image) and I have associated simple products for each individual color.
I don't seem to be able to obtain the desired behavior from the site and I'm writing to ask if you have a suggestion that might solve my problem.
At the moment I experience this behavior: when filtering products through color-level attributes I get both the simple and configurable products in my result set. Once I do that if I click on a simple product I find myself the simple product detail page, which doesn't show the box with the other color swatches.. while I would like every product detail page to show the other colors of the same item.
The intended usage is very basic really but I can't figure out if Magento can achieve that on its own or if it will require extra code; what I need is:
1) all product detail pages to show all the color swatches
2) the result list when filtering by the color attribute (for example "whites") should show the correct color images of the individual colors, without duplicates (and not the main image for that product, which would probably be in the wrong color)
Do you have a suggestion of maybe know of a plugin to achieve this?
Thanks a lot,
Sergio
Sergio,
There are two features in particular that might help you solve your problem.
First:
Click to expand the Shopping Cart section. Then, set Configurable Product Image to one
of the following:
l Product Thumbnail Itself
l Parent Product Thumbnail
Second:
To prevent the associated products from being listed individually in the catalog, set Visibility to “Not Visible Individually.” Or in your case, you may decide to do it the other way around.
Please be aware that I was not able to get this feature to work myself.
Related
I am just trying to work out pros and cons for the configurable product option. I have a shoe which is available in different colours and sizes. It makes sense to make both the size and colour configurable. The have two issues with this:
On a list page I can only show one option, and not show all the colours as individual products
I can't seem to link directly to a configurable product with the colour attribute set
Does anyone know a way of overcoming the above issues?
Thanks
Richard
Color swatches http://www.venustheme.com/configurable-swatches-guide-for-magento-1-9-1/ allows You to use configurable product options in catalog, but it is extremly slow. For better performance You can use https://github.com/wigman/AjaxSwatches.
Another idea is asynchronous popup with product options in catalog, but I don't know any extension for this.
I setup the configurable products using 4 options (color, size thickness, size width, size ball).
I want view color distinct items on the list.
When I click each items, the detail page will be same. (same color swatch and options views)
(please check my attached file.)
When I click a item has got blue color option, I want see the blue color selected on the product view page.
Please let me know the solution.
Thank you.
Interesting challenge you have there - the products are ideally suited for Magento, you should end up with a store vastly more convenient than the competitors where you cannot filter by gauge, colour etc.
As for the problem, don't put colour in the configurable product options, just the size options will do. For selecting colours the way you want, move the related product block to the main product page options area.
Your 'related products' will need thumbnails and some careful creation so they stay in the same sort order. To do this:
Presumably you are using SKU's that follow some pattern, e.g. SKU-SIZE1-SIZE2-COLOUR. Put together a module with an observer that runs on some sensible schedule, e.g. overnight. In that scheduled task get the product collection grouped by SKU and ordered by COLOUR. Put some sort order to your colours, e.g. spectrum, with Red = 100, Orange = 200 and everything sensible in between. The im of the task is to go through all the products, find 'related' products (same model code, sku). Then in that group create related product links. For the example above, with six colour variants you will need to put in 25 links (5^2) once you take all six configurable master products into consideration.
Now you will need some work on the template. Initially you may want to get anything to show, you will also need to put the currently selected product in the list in the correct place so that the colour thumbnails do not jump around when you go from one colour variant to the next.
This can be done by using an extension called Pre-Select Colors Plus Swatches. You can find a demo of said extension here:
http://preselectswatches.cjmcreativedesigns.com/products.html
There are 6 products shown in the demo. One is the configurable product and the other five are the simple products showing the various color options. Notice that each of the color options loads the parent product with the color option already selected. The configurable product can even be hidden from the category listings, if needed, so that you only show the color options on the category pages.
I’m setting up an online clothing store and have come across a huge problem:
When I make at product (a t-shirt for example), I want to be able to add the available sizes and colors, without having to create a product for every single option.
When I add a color or size, I need to be able to enter a SKU for each product, so I can tell which option the customer chose in the store. First I tried making 2 sets of attributes: “Color” and “Size”, so I could multi-select when adding a product. But the attributes didn’t show up as options in the store, as I had hoped.
I did a lot of searching, and found that some people used the “Costom Option” tab, to make fields for the available sizes, colors etc. - but I don’t want add those options every time I add a product. The multi-select feature I accomplished with the attributes, would have been perfect.
Also I found that someone was forced to pay for an extension to accomplish this - but as I am running on a very tight budget, so I really don’t want to pay anything to achieve this.
You can achieve this programmatically, observing the product save and generate all simple products of a configurable product. Unfortunately, you will have to manage stock for those items separately.
You can do this by creating a configurable products. For more information on how to create configurable products please refer to http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-creating-a-configurable-product. You can refer to http://www.srota.co for an example.
i’m new to magento and was wondering if someone can help me.
i have a product that comes in multiple colors, but if i set it up as a configurable product it just gives the user the option of choosing a different color (but doesn’t show an image to him/her)
what i would like to do is have the other colors appear underneath just like up sells would (the same design)
if anyone can help me i would greatly appreciate it
Use the Simple Configurable Products extension by Organic Internet, as available for free on Magento Connect and your problem should be solved.
One way to accomplish this is to store images for each color of the project. With JS, you could auto-select color options on the page, and still make use of a configurable product for this purpose. You'll need to do significant template alteration to make this work.
Another approach is to use simple products (which you've already created in this case), and list them directly in the catalog. With Magento's cross-sell functionality, you can tag the products to each other and provide links between product pages for each color. Obviously, this involves more navigation for the user, but does allow you to manage each product independently.
Both of these methods will retain normal product relationships and track inventory for each color of a product, so they are preferable to solutions that involve hacking the framework.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Joseph Mastey
I want to show a set of products as a table inside one product with these attributes.
Dimensions Width x Gusset x Height Code Price/Case Bags/Case Weight
So i chosen grouped product option but it does not match the requirement. How can i design a table like format from the grouped product option with radio button to choose only one product from it. So using grouped product or configurable product or by any way how can i achieve this.
Here am attaching the screen-shot which i actually wanted
I can think of two ways to represent this in code. If the dimensions tend to be from a limited set of choices, you could use a configurable product to represent this choice, simply displaying all possible sub-products in the table. This would let you reuse the existing catalog product page with a little retrofitting.
If they do not fit well, you could place the items in a category hidden from the public categories and loop through each of the products in the category to display the table. This would require more work to tie back to putting into the cart, etc.
Importantly, it looks like each of your options has an entirely uncorrelated price, so it seems to me that you need to have a simple product underpinning these options at some point. (I'm sure you could get more clever, I'm just not sure that's a good idea.)
You can easily solve this with a plugin for Magento. There is a plugin here which will do exactly what you want. It will display product options in a grid: http://www.magemechanics.com/product-grid-options.html