Individual Product Component References

[jackhartley]

Is it possible to add reference codes to the choices of a product component?

(the actinic orders will be dowloaded into sage so I need to get the product codes exactly right.)

This is how the reference codes need to work:

Product
5255
Colour (Component Choice)
NY
Size (Component Choice)
32

Final Product Reference Code = 5255NY32

Cheers,

Jack

[I-CC]

Solution would be to create hidden products for each of the different (real) product reference codes that the combination of choices would create.

so, if you have a chair product, which comes in 2 styles and 2 colours, this would mean you have 4 chairs with different product reference numbers, so you would create these 4 chairs under there own reference number (note: no options or anything like that), so might be:

ref-1234 - chair - red - edwardian
ref-1235 - chair - brown - edwardian
ref-2345 - chair - red - georgian
ref-2346 - chair - brown - georgian

Hide these 4 products so not visible on the actual site.

Create the visible chair product with the components, attributes and choices....

Component might be called - choices.

Attributes might be: colour and then another for style...

Choices added to the respective attributes.

Then, once you have that created, go back to the component part and permutations tab and click fill list, which will then show the options available from the 2 attributes and the choices in them.

To the right, you then pick the correct (hidden) product from the Product column and decide on whether to use 'Name from Associated product' which will then display the hidden product name in the cart as opposed to the visible one.

You can also assign price options here and then also at the visible product level.

[I-CC]

Sorry, should have added.

Don't think it is possible to build product references on the fly from options as the product reference has to exist in the catalog .cat files (db) for it to be accepted upon ordering or will simply say this does not exist when you try to add to cart, hense this way, which means you have to create the list of all of the options...

[jackhartley]

that's going to take a while, but it has to be done!

Thanks for the help :)