AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

For our products we would like to have default options set when the customer views the product.

Also, can we have all of the available options visible by default? Right now, you have to select one before the next shows up. We would like all options showing by default.

Example would like to have the following visible and set by default:

Size: 1-pound bag

Grind: Whole Bean

Delivery: One-time (I can already get this to show, because it's a kit component)

Would it be better to create a kit with all of these as separate products?

Seems like it would be nice to be able to set default values for options -- like you let us do with kit options.

Thanks.

Will,
Not to speak out of turn here or anything but in adding a few products I've found that the copy product can accomplish what you describe. If product A is created and manually assigned all options then you would copy this product. The new product, Copy of Product A, would then have all options and you could change what you wanted.

Thanks for the reply. Not sure we're talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about what the customer sees when they go to a product page.

I currently have 2 different options set for a product -- Size and Grind.

When you first go to the product page on the public view of the web site, you only see the dropdown for Size. The Size dropdown has no pre-selected option.

Once you choose an option in the Size dropdown, the Grind dropdown appears, with no pre-selected option. You then have to choose an option in the Grind dropdown.

I would like the ability to:

1. have all option dropdowns to be showing
2. designate an option to be selected by default

For our products, 90 percent of people want the default options, so the two issues above would allow us to streamline the purchasing process. A customer would just need to hit "add to cart" and be done.

Hope this is more clear.

Mike, Logan, or Katie -- is there any way to have all of the product option choices showing by default on the product page? Thanks.

Will, product templates does it for me.

If you use product options/variants, it only shows one at a time. Probably because the subsequent choices could be dependent on earlier selections.

I wanted the same thing and found setting up a product template and assigning it to the product worked.

It doesn't set the "default value", but at least it accomplishes the visibility of all options for you.

In your case though, it sounds as if variants would be more suited to your products. The other issue that crops up is when you have 6-7 options for a product - they all line up vertically and generate alot of white-space on the product page

We have to use options/variants because we need the shipping weight to change depending on the option you choose.

Hello Guys,

This will be an easy change on the options component. We'll get something released that will address this issue. Basically if all variants are available for all options, then show all of the option choices up front.

Sounds great. The kit options also let you select a default value -- it would be ideal if we could also do that for product options. Thanks.

Hello Will,

Doesn't the sort take care of default option?

If the sort will take care of the default option, that's super. Right now, the first choice in the options dropdown is blank. You have to actively click and choose from the dropdown to select a value.

Has the ability to show all options and have those options have a set default value of the first option as described above been done yet? Is there a way I could install it if it has?

Hello,

If you check the following post you can find a link to download the patch.

viewtopic.php?t=5537

Thanks for the link. Ill try that patch. Does that patch also select the first option as the default or does it still require if using swatches to make a selection first before you can add to basket?

Hello,

The patch was in response to the original issue, so I doubt it. Please let us know what you find.

The patch just makes all options visible for me. I would love it if it would select the first option as a default.

I haven't checked this in the patch, but in RC1 I was able to remove the blank entry in the dropdown by removing this line from the producthelper.cs:
aspOptions.Items.Add(String.Empty);

Does not seem to work with swatches. Only option drop downs.

Here is a solution that might work for some:

http://8bitbyte.com/programming-help/20 ... ct-option/