Hi, I would like to use drupalcommerce, I have this setup on one site and the drupalcommerce kickstart on another and I am having trouble getting my head wrapped around getting this to work. I am using drupal7.16:
I want to create a simple store selling basic computers for example, so I would want a product to display several things about the product such as memory, processor etc.
I've created a product type 'computer', added several fields, but things just are ot working in either case. Would there be anyone that could or would be willing to help me figure out in simple steps what I may need to do? I've read the documentation, but I'm getting no place fast.
Thank you
Hello,
you have a product entity in drupal commerce, think of that as a certain SKU, say a blue t-shirt size S, and then you have another different product SKU, blue t-shirt size L, and another red t-shrit size S.
then you have your product display which is a node entity, this is a single product in a catalog, that has different options -> red, blue, s,m,l so you use a product reference field to reference all the different SKU options (product entities) from the product display node entity.
now i'm not sure how you would go around building a custom pc, in this setup, because you either need an insane amount of products, once for each combination of hardware, or some way to have multiple product refrences where each one adds to the base price of your main product.
hope this helps a bit.
Idan
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Jim Ruby jim@v-community.com wrote:
Hi, I would like to use drupalcommerce, I have this setup on one site and the drupalcommerce kickstart on another and I am having trouble getting my head wrapped around getting this to work. I am using drupal7.16:
I want to create a simple store selling basic computers for example, so I would want a product to display several things about the product such as memory, processor etc.
I've created a product type 'computer', added several fields, but things just are ot working in either case. Would there be anyone that could or would be willing to help me figure out in simple steps what I may need to do? I've read the documentation, but I'm getting no place fast.
Thank you
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I just recently set up a Drupal Commerce Kickstart site. You have to first add a Product Display Type, let's call it Computers. Then you have to add all the fields you may ever need to display for any computer that you sell: memory, processor, width, height, brand etc. Note that you may not use all these fields on every computer you sell, but you need them in the Product Display to make them available to the Products as you enter them.
Then you create products, each with it's own SKU, title, price and info in any of the fields you create for that Product Display in the first step. Products are not pages, but only entities that the assigned Product Display pulls the info from to make a page in your online shop
The Product Display is the page your customers see on the front end, the Products are just entities containing specific product info.
Then you go back to each Product Display and add the SKU's of the applicable products.
Hope this helps.
-Cindy Dykstra
On 11/1/2012 6:42 PM, Jim Ruby wrote:
Hi, I would like to use drupalcommerce, I have this setup on one site and the drupalcommerce kickstart on another and I am having trouble getting my head wrapped around getting this to work. I am using drupal7.16:
I want to create a simple store selling basic computers for example, so I would want a product to display several things about the product such as memory, processor etc.
I've created a product type 'computer', added several fields, but things just are ot working in either case. Would there be anyone that could or would be willing to help me figure out in simple steps what I may need to do? I've read the documentation, but I'm getting no place fast.
Thank you
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Cindy Dykstra, WebMaker Inc. -
Idan Arbel -
Jim Ruby