Advanced Order Options in SP2

[c.wagner]

Hi guys,

I just recently upgraded to SS Pro 10.2 SP2 from SS Manager 10.2 SP1 and modified a product to use the advanced order options. Before I modified my product, I had 2 drop down menues for order options. Interior Color and Exterior Color. Once I added SKUs to these options, they got combined into one big drop down menu instead of the 2 drop down menus I had before. Although this is ultimately OK, the checkout is not as clean looking as it used to be. Am I missing something or is this just a limitation of adding SKUs to order options?


It went from two menus looking like this:

Interior Color Exterior Color
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red Gray
blue Red
white Teak

To one menu like this:

Interior Color Exterior Color
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red Gray
red Red
red Teak
blue Gray
blue Red
blue Teak
white Gray
white Red
white Teak

Thanks
Chris

[Jim]

This is the way it is designed to work. The addition of not just the sku but also the inventory tracking and weight on a per option basis requires that each option combination be unique and is essentially a product in itself. Therefore, the pulldown list must contain all possible option combinations.

Here is a little more information on how the advanced options work.

For ShopSite generated pages the Advanced Order Options will only be displayed on a Product's More Information page, not on regular pages with products assigned. Special Javascript code is added to the moreinfo page to populate the options as mentioned above.

On the product More Information page you will still see a number of pulldown menus equal to those in the standard options . In your case the two pull downs will have the default name you give to the pull down, i.e. Interior Color and Exterior Color. When the shopper clicks on the Interior Color pull down the first menu will be populated by the options that are available in the first list i.e. Red, Blue, White. After a selection is made in the first option the second pull down will be populated with options that are available for the item selected in the first pull down. So if for the Blue option you only have the Red and Teak items in stock only Red and Teak will display in the second pull down. Or if for the first option they select White and you only have the Red option available for that combination they would only see Red in the pull down. When the item is added to the cart they would see The product name, price, sku etc with White Red.as the selected options and no pull down menu will appear.

If the product is being displayed by Order AnyWhere code, then the required javascript code to make the options populate with just the available options is not available so all option pulldowns will display as before. However in the shopping cart all possible option combinations will display as you have noted. This allows for the additional parameters needed to keep track of the sku, inventory, per option price, weight image etc.

[c.wagner]

Thanks Jim, I have a pretty good feel for what is going on now. Since I use a custom product template and don't include the order options in the product more info page, (I have always thought this option looked better in the shopping cart page especially when there is no price difference) shopsite generates this menu in the cart. If I where to go and modify my more info template to include the order options, this menu would not appear at all on the cart page.

Chis