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
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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.
I have a problem in finding a solution for our store. We are selling shoes with different colors and sizes. Each product has a different sku based on color and size and different stock.
Until now all is simple, I can use configurable products but I want to have all options visible in category list as a separate product.
For eg.: in flats category I have a product with 2 different colors and I want to display them separately and when I choose one of them there I want to have the options of other colors and sizes.
Is there a solution or a module that I can use?
From what is in the description, Configurable product would suit your situation better. For each configurable product, you can have multiple simple product with different colour and sizes. And you can change the visibility attribute of the simple product to make it show up in the frontend.
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.
Magento offers Configurable Products so that it lets buyer selects attributes for a given product, like Size for Shirt, or Color for a Phone.
Problem is, you must add each possible single combination as a simple product, and that Configurable Product works merely as a container. This is impractical for attributes with too many values, and unexpected values.
For example it does not allow text values. What if a buyer wants to print his name on a Shirt?
What if I wanted to add a selectable attribute of tens of values? It doesn't have to be a added through the admin area, hardcoded solutions are OK.
Something like Cart Item Annotation is there?
Configurable products should not be used for products that doesn't have a physical definition, for instance Drawing and Designs. Instead it's better to use Custom Options instead for these cases, where you don't care about inventory of products nor attribute based statistics. This could be done through the Custom Options tab at Manage Product screen. Surely this eliminates the need for configurable products for a variety of cases.
Is it possible in Magento to show the price range of simple products as opposed to the price set for the main configurable product.
For example, say we have a t shirt, configurable by size and each with a different price. It doesnt make sense to show a fixed price on the catalog page does it?
I would expect to see something similar to Prices from £3.99.
Does anyone know if this is possible without any custom modification.
I know, it is NOT good solution but worth to try.
Create simple products of each t-shirt based size then group this products like "Polo T-Shirt". Users will see only "Polo T-Shirt" but they can choose what they want from drop-down list.