I was wondering if there is a better way to manage many variant.. often when using clothing sizes, their might be many sizes.. and instead of creating each size multiple times, it's perhaps possible to use the multi node picker to pick the sizes for a product or something similar.. but where the variants only is created once.
E.g. a Sizes node which has child nodes: XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL and 4XL or something similar with many shoe sizes or colour variants.
When the numbers of products grow, I think it quickly is getting too difficult to create the variants.
Another thing, is there a way to modify, so if the variants don't have an image, it just use the first image - the product image itself?
I know that another company using Tea Commerce did a custom datatype to make this editing easier. The thing where you want multiple levels of variants is a little hard to manage in a tree structure like umbraco - but you could make a dashboard control to make the editing easier or a datatype - if you want to we could make a quote for this functionality and develop it for you. Feel free to send me an email if you want a quote.
The starter kit gives you the option to overwrite the image a variant level, but use fallback to the main product image. So you could have a look at that.
Well it wasn't quite a solution in my case, but yes I might be helpful for others :)
Perhaps I can use the "multi node picker" to select the variants.. right now it get the variants from child nodes of the product, but perhaps it's possible to use child nodes of the same parent node. e.g. create a sizes node and S, M, L, XL and so on as children..
Okay.. then they wont have to create to same variant types over and over..
Perhaps make a parent and child variant doctype and then create variant nodes and select the nodes from the product. I'm not sure if it will cause any problems as it still use nodes?
And if it could work with some small modifications in the xslt it would be great :)
Yes that could indeed be nice! Could be a feature we would considere for the next version of Tea Commerce for Umbraco 5 - but in the mean time you could "just" make it as a custom datatype and share it with the world :)
Many variants
Hi..
I was wondering if there is a better way to manage many variant.. often when using clothing sizes, their might be many sizes.. and instead of creating each size multiple times, it's perhaps possible to use the multi node picker to pick the sizes for a product or something similar.. but where the variants only is created once.
E.g. a Sizes node which has child nodes: XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL and 4XL
or something similar with many shoe sizes or colour variants.
When the numbers of products grow, I think it quickly is getting too difficult to create the variants.
Another thing, is there a way to modify, so if the variants don't have an image, it just use the first image - the product image itself?
Bjarne
Hi Bjarne
I know that another company using Tea Commerce did a custom datatype to make this editing easier. The thing where you want multiple levels of variants is a little hard to manage in a tree structure like umbraco - but you could make a dashboard control to make the editing easier or a datatype - if you want to we could make a quote for this functionality and develop it for you. Feel free to send me an email if you want a quote.
The starter kit gives you the option to overwrite the image a variant level, but use fallback to the main product image. So you could have a look at that.
Kind regards
Anders
Hi Bjarne
If you found my post helpful, could you then mark it as the solution - just to help others
Kind regards
Anders
Hi Anders
Well it wasn't quite a solution in my case, but yes I might be helpful for others :)
Perhaps I can use the "multi node picker" to select the variants.. right now it get the variants from child nodes of the product, but perhaps it's possible to use child nodes of the same parent node. e.g. create a sizes node and S, M, L, XL and so on as children..
Bjarne
That could be a solution - if you just need the variants for UI it wouldnt be a problem to make this simple approch
Kind regards
Anders
Okay.. then they wont have to create to same variant types over and over..
Perhaps make a parent and child variant doctype and then create variant nodes and select the nodes from the product.
I'm not sure if it will cause any problems as it still use nodes?
And if it could work with some small modifications in the xslt it would be great :)
Bjarne
I would like if the there was a option to use attributes groups like in nopCommerce and Prestashop use it too.
E.g. create attribute group like sizes, color,... and then under each product use that group and specify which variants is needed..
Bjarne
Hi Bjarne
Yes that could indeed be nice! Could be a feature we would considere for the next version of Tea Commerce for Umbraco 5 - but in the mean time you could "just" make it as a custom datatype and share it with the world :)
Kind regards
Anders
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