Question Regarding Product Filters and Versions

[Nulumia]

Hi DBTech,
I'm building a store which doesn't use "master" products which represent and contain all the different versions or platforms available (such as how this site does). Rather, I may have a plugin under "Wordpress Plugins" category, and have the same plugin built and sold separately under "Xenforo Addons". Basically just preference for traditional store/category approach.

With this setup, would I basically ignore the Product Filters functionality completely? Further, if I only ever have one main version of any product, what would you recommend doing for the Version fields? The addon requires at least one version to be defined, so not sure if I should just put primary/Primary or official/Official on every product. I did notice when only one version is entered, it doesn't show anywhere on the frontend (which would be pointless for the user) so that is cool.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Fillip H.]

With this setup, would I basically ignore the Product Filters functionality completely?

Sure, product filters aren't necessary, so if you don't need that feature you can ignore it.

Further, if I only ever have one main version of any product, what would you recommend doing for the Version fields? The addon requires at least one version to be defined, so not sure if I should just put primary/Primary or official/Official on every product.

It doesn't matter what you put for the version field if you're only going to use one version

 

[Nulumia]

Easy enough, thanks!

 

[Nulumia]

Hi Fillip - not a biggie here if not, but do you think there's a way I could pre-fill the version fields with some default value by editing some sort of template? Just to automate things for large inventories a bit faster.

 

[Fillip H.]

You would need to edit the Public template dbtech_ecommerce_product_edit_macros and add something beneath

<ul class="listPlain inputPair-container">

You probably want something like

<xf:if is="$product.isInsert()">
    <li class="inputPair">
        <xf:textbox name="product_version[]" value="primary"
                    placeholder="{{ phrase('value_a_z_0_9_and_only') }}"
                    size="24" maxlength="25" data-i="0"
                    dir="ltr" />
        <xf:textbox name="product_version_text[]" value="Primary"
                    placeholder="{{ phrase('text') }}"
                    size="24" data-i="0" />
    </li>
</xf:if>

 

[Nulumia]

You would need to edit the Public template dbtech_ecommerce_product_edit_macros and add something beneath

<ul class="listPlain inputPair-container">

You probably want something like

<xf:if is="$product.isInsert()">
    <li class="inputPair">
        <xf:textbox name="product_version[]" value="primary"
                    placeholder="{{ phrase('value_a_z_0_9_and_only') }}"
                    size="24" maxlength="25" data-i="0"
                    dir="ltr" />
        <xf:textbox name="product_version_text[]" value="Primary"
                    placeholder="{{ phrase('text') }}"
                    size="24" data-i="0" />
    </li>
</xf:if>

Will try and let you know, thanks!

 

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