Update product with conditional - select this before you can see the other options

[jfazar]

This seems like a basic ecommerce functionality, but I'm not sure how to do it.

I have a product that comes in different sizes, but also comes as flexible or rigid. I'd love for users to be able to select if it's flexible or rigid, then the appropriate sizes would be displayed.

How do I do this?

[Nick]

You can do this in Miva using Inventory Variants.

Here is a link to a video with an example of a product using inventory variants: https://docs.miva.com/videos/using-inventory-variants

Here is some documentation around the functionality:
https://docs.miva.com/miva10/referen...s-and-variants
https://docs.miva.com/miva10/referen...ating-variants

My suggestion would be to first create the product with the all attributes and options available. Then once the product is created you can generate variants and remove the ones that are not available.

A variant in Miva is an inactive (or active) product that is linked to a single or combination of options. This allows Miva store additional product data like inventory and images for example.

If you the store is using a default Shadows framework the frontend will show the unavailable options greyed out. Here is a quick example I set up in my development store: https://mivalearn.mivamerchantdev.com/shirt.html

[jfazar]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the explanation and your quick example but I'm using Collasus and radio buttons dont work/look the same as you have it. I've almost got it working with dropdowns, I just need to have a 'Select' option that the dropdown defaults to of zero dollars. I'm working on the live site so you can see how both rigid and flex default to the first attribute.

https://www.imagescienceassociates.com/object-level-target-family.html

I screenshot what's in the admin.

[lesliekirk]

What happens if you make that SELECT the default? Currently I see it's set to "No". try "Yes".

[jfazar]

Hi Leslie!

When I set it to default then refresh that product page you can see SELECT in the drop down for a split second and then it disappears. I also thought a negative number in the price field might have been screwing it up so I set that to zero and the same thing happens.

[lesliekirk]

Is "SELECT" an Inventory Variant product?

[jfazar]

Hmmm... this is my first time doing this, but I think it is NOT a Inventory Variant cause I added it AFTER generating them.

[lesliekirk]

Hmmm... this is my first time doing this, but I think it is NOT a Inventory Variant cause I added it AFTER generating them.

In a galaxy far far away I found this tidbit from Matt Zimmermann

On your product details page, do you have attribute machine set to accept a Select One option?

Now I'm not sure how this might apply to your current set up but it's worth a try and maybe Matt might be able to chime in.

[Matt Zimmermann]

lesliekirk That could have something to do with it, although in that case the Select One is manually added to a select as the first option and not as an attribute option.


jfazar You could try having a set of radios, one for flexible and one for rigid, and then a select with all the options for both. Then, following Nick information, generate the variants, and remove the ones that aren't available for the initial selection.

[jfazar]

I'm looking at the Inventory Variants tab for the first time and I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I kind of understand, and the video link from above doesn't get into the removing of variants part so I'm struggling a bit. I think what I should do is try and make a new product just like Nick did with a simple t-shirt and colors, versus what I have with all my crazy naming ala OL1-1X-Flex. Maybe that will help be understand this better.

I've attached what it looks like in the Admin under the variants tab.

[jfazar]

Can someone let me know if this makes sense to set the product up like this...

Object Level Target (Product Name)

Flexibility (Attribute 1)

• FLEXIBLE
• Rigid

Size (Attribute 2)

• 0.5x
• 1.0x
• 2.0x

BUT how to I handle cases? A user can purchase a case with all three sizes of the rigid target, or two sizes of the rigid targets (0.5x and 1x). I think these extra cases are going to be a problem?

[jfazar]

Matt Zimmermann figured out how to get it to work:

https://www.imagescienceassociates.com/object-level-targets.html

But now I'd like to have different images for most of the variations however I'm not sure where to add images - or how to get them to change on selection.

[jfazar]

I figured out how to have the image change based on what's been selected which is awesome, but when I add an image to the main images tab and set it to 'Main' then it breaks it and it ONLY shows that image. I played around and removed some variants which helped, even got the main image to appear BUT when I did that it made the product able to purchased WITHOUT selecting anything. We need to have it say 'Please select a valid combination of attributes.' (and a greyed out Add to Cart button).

[Matt Zimmermann]

jfazar If I remember correctly, setting a "main" image for the parent product and all the variants will make it so when landing on the page, there's an image and when you choose a variant, the main image changes. As long as you're not tracking inventory on the parent product, you should get the message you are referring to.

[jfazar]

Once I set all the product variant images to main, then it worked!