"Conditional" options

rph wrote:Beta release of Dependent Options is now out. It's currently for 1.5.1.3 only. During the beta release period the price will be only $25.00 (this is half the price of similar mods for other carts like Magento). The cost will be going up after I've finished backporting to earlier OpenCart 1.5.x versions.

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Woohoo, great news...will this price include updates?

Also any word on it working with options-boost yet?

elbobiam wrote:Woohoo, great news...will this price include updates?

Yes it does (I'll likely be making an advanced version in the future full bulk applying dependent options but that will be a separate mod).

Also any word on it working with options-boost yet?

I just released Dependent Options 20 minutes ago. It'll take Q a while to do a code review (unless he's supremely lucky and everything works out-of-the-box). I'll be messing with the internals a bit in the coming weeks so Q may want to wait until I'm out of beta anyway.

rph wrote:

dizarter wrote:

rph wrote:This won't change the way options work but you can put quantity/pricing on the last child option value (assuming the option value is unique).

So, this means it won't be possible to track product quantities per dependent options combo choice?

Not directly, no. You can do this round-aboutly if you make the last option value in the chain unique (e.g. Small Red and Medium Red instead of Red) but that obviously creates a lot more work.

Cool, congrats on the launch!

Yet again, making the last option in the chain unique will make all other option quantites to update after purchasing?

E.g. I have product with two options, color and size, and different quantites for each of the option values (some are out of stock).

Will it be possible, using the last option in the chain, to make all other option quantites updated after purchase?

dizarter wrote:Yet again, making the last option in the chain unique will make all other option quantites to update after purchasing?

All option quantities will automatically update just like in a normal cart. It's just that that behavior is probably not what most people will need. It doesn't matter that their shop has 70 small shirts and 40 red shirts. It matters that they have 17 small red shirts.

rph wrote:It doesn't matter that their shop has 70 small shirts and 40 red shirts. It matters that they have 17 small red shirts.

Exactly what I am asking, but you still didn't answer my question, so I think.

In a normal cart, if I have 1 red shirt (large) and 1 blue shirt (small), in options for color red and blue will be shown and in options for size small and large will be shown. Customers will still be able to add 1 red small (or 1 blue large) to the cart, even though I don't have them.

The answer is the same as before dizarter. You have to make the last option absolutely unique. If you only have one red shirt then there's no issue. You set a quantity on that very last option and you're fine. If you have it in multiple sizes then you need to make the last quantity unique. Instead of red you have to create red [small] and red [large] then set quantities on those.

I know that one solution is to make all possible product combinations as separate options, but I was just wondering did you do anything on that part in the logic. I guess when you said options still work as normal answered my question, but I dind't pay close atention.

Even still, module is worthy addition to any serious cart.

Thanks

rph wrote: I just released Dependent Options 20 minutes ago. It'll take Q a while to do a code review (unless he's supremely lucky and everything works out-of-the-box). I'll be messing with the internals a bit in the coming weeks so Q may want to wait until I'm out of beta anyway.

Yeah, sorry...eager

They're not compatible but I'm working on the issue.

I added compatibility with Options Boost which has bulk options updating so I'm not planning to do anything myself.

That's correct.

Sorry another dumb question probably from an OC newbie but...

Can this do accurate stock control?

By that I mean if I have a widget in 24 combinations of colour and size will it update the option quantities depending on which item size/colour are bought?

That the most wanted thing for me, to be able to do stock control in OC when using options.

No. Because of how OpenCart works in order to control stock you would need to make an individual option value for every unique stock item. For instance, if you have a Medium Black t-shirt and a Large Black t-shirt you would need to make two options values: Black [Medium] and Black [Large]. If you just have Black OpenCart will have no way of knowing which black t-shirt it is.

Thanks a lot for explaining that.

I was working on one selector with just that set up, so 6 colours and 4 sizes have 24 entries in the selector box, very messy

I'm still not sure that I understand stock in OC correctly but that is not the topic of this thread!

I'm now trying to work out if I use your Conditional Options (Size is parent, Colour is child) and sell 1 X Red Medium item and under options I have 4 red/med in stock will the stock levels in options actually show (3) Red/Med left?

And what happens to the total quantity in data for that product.

Calcite wrote:I was working on one selector with just that set up, so 6 colours and 4 sizes have 24 entries in the selector box, very messy

I agree but there's simply no way around it with how options work in OpenCart.

I'm now trying to work out if I use your Conditional Options (Size is parent, Colour is child) and sell 1 X Red Medium item and under options I have 4 red/med in stock will the stock levels in options actually show (3) Red/Med left?

And what happens to the total quantity in data for that product.

I believe product option quantities only come into play when adding an item to the cart. The quantities themselves are decreased when a customer's order is submitted.

@rph Just to clarify my first part of the post, I meant that my way of having one selector and 24 drop down items was messy. I was not criticising your dependent options as it seems a good way to present the options to the user.

Is there a option to bind a option to a user group? We need this options for a shop with different country-stores with different prices (over user groups) and different optionprices. So we need to bind the options on customer groups.

I was on your website having a play about with the system, is it completed as i couldn't see it working. I think that this will be a great feature and one i really need. Looks like you have been developing it for sometime now.

Good work.