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"Stockable Variant Plugin" help/advice #7342

Open sandstorm871 opened this topic Thursday, 07 May 2015 · 1 reply
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I am at a fork in crossroads on deciding wether to use VM3 Core Multi variants or the 3rd party "StockableCustomFields" plugin from Breakdesigns here - https://breakdesigns.net/extensions/stockable-custom-fields

The latter, works nicer & is easier to understand for an administrator of a webshop and when manually adding a product in the back end. It just makes it all very simple/easy.

But I also want to import a few hundred products & I am worried that by using this 3rd party plugin, I will only be able to get so far when using CSVi.

I have just been reading this thread where it looks as though using VM3 & Multi variants is possible to import using CSVi.

I hope you understand where I am coming from & just after advice on wether to turn to;

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[li]Multi Variants - which may be easier to set up with CSVi, but seems a bit confusing in the back end.[/li]
[li]StockableCustomFields - which is easy to use backend, but not sure about CSVi.[/li]
[/ol]

Have you seen/used this 3rd party plugin and would it be possible to set up a csvi import to link the parent/childs when using it?

The developer over there said it just needs a few records in the database;

each child product will be defined by a record in the table: virtuemart_product_customfields

This record should have:

  1. virtuemart_product_id > The parent product's id
  2. virtuemart_custom_id > The id of the stockable custom
  3. customfield_value > stockablecustomfields
  4. customfield_param > This does the trick. It should have a format like: parentOrderable=0|custom_id=""|child_product_id="102"|

child_product_id > The id of a child product, you want to use as variation

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Hey Andy,

I am aware of the stockable custom fields plugin by breakdesigns and actually spoke to him about it. I am going to see if I can add support for the plugin into CSVI 6. Just have not had the time so far.

I have just been reading this thread where it looks as though using VM3 & Multi variants is possible to import using CSVi.

Correct, CSVI 6 supports multi variants. There is also a tutorial Importing Multi Variant Custom field.

Have you seen/used this 3rd party plugin and would it be possible to set up a csvi import to link the parent/childs when using it?

Currently it is not possible as said above but I will be looking into supporting it in CSVI 6.

Kind regards,

RolandD

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