Making all product options + add to cart visible by default

[AbleMods]

[DonAshby]

Hi Mike,
Any thoughts yet on when the next release will be? Will it be RC3? or Final?

If you don't know yet, can you say a minimum amount of time it will take - like at least 2 weeks - or ? ... for our planning.

Thanks, Don

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello Don,

We're hopeful that it will be in the 2 week time frame. We don't release finals, we'll release RC3 and if nothing major is found it will be re-labeled final.

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello All,

I didn't notice it initially, but a patch is attached to the following bug if anyone wants to give this a try.

http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6338

[compunerdy]

Looks like it works great now..Thanks!!

[jmestep]

Ditto on the thanks!

[Will]

Awesome. Thanks! You guys rock.

Any word on the second part of this -- Don's core request that an option shows by default? Is there a way we can do this now or is this coming in the next release?

[Will]

I was able to use javascript to set the default product options. It's a temporary work-around, though.

[Jinx]

Yes, I would love to have the first option be the default selection.

[jmestep]

Posted earlier in this topic- I think this will still work to remove the blank at start of dropdown-- remove this line from producthelper.cs:
aspOptions.Items.Add(String.Empty);

[Jinx]

Awesome I will give it a try.

[Jinx]

That doesn't work if you are using swatches.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

Posted earlier in this topic- I think this will still work to remove the blank at start of dropdown-- remove this line from producthelper.cs:
aspOptions.Items.Add(String.Empty);

Don't do this if you are doing either one of the following:

using option inventory
using variant level overrides (like specifying a price for a specific option combination or marking a particular combination unavailable)
using swatches

Otherwise there probably isn't any harm. Very soon a new version of this code will be available. It improves even further the problems with Ajax and product purchase. As someone mentioned above, it's just not as cool as it should be.

[DonAshby]

Hello Logan,

I thought this was going to be in RC3 to show a default? Yet I looked all over the Dashboard in the Options settings and could not find anyplace to set the Default Option or Variant.

Looking at the date of your above post, it was before RC3 came out. So to make a default color show up, do we need to make the code change as per Judys post above?

Please explain where we are at now with RC3and how it will be changed ( it at all ) in the future? I think a number of people are interested.

Thanks, Don

[Logan Rhodehamel]

The "default" change in RC3 was to show all of the options by default, not to select one of the choices by default. The change Judy suggested would probably still work, but factor in the list of situations I gave when you should not do this.

[bha]

Hi Judy or Logan. What is the empty option for? Is it used to force an update (such as inventory display) when an option is chosen other than blank?

Thanks,
Bruce.

[jmestep]

I don't know, but I would like an explanation from Logan as to why it wouldn't work in some instances that he mentioned. I'm curious.

[Jinx]

All issues would be solved if there was a default selection. (Just my two cents)

[jmestep]

my 2 cents also.

[meer2005]

is there any way to make aspOptions.Items.Add(String.Empty); display some text like "Select Option?" That way it isn't just blank..