[Resolved] Sort Options by Lowest denominator

[keat]

Is there any way to make a product option to default to something rather than 'Please Select'

I did ask something similar when i tried V6 a while back.

[bsmither]

That is a decision made by the skin designer.

In the skin template content.product.php, find (the following is for Foundation, other skins will be similar):

            {elseif $option.type == Catalogue::OPTION_SELECT}
            <div class="row">
               <div class="small-12 columns">
                  {* If we only have one required option replace with hidden field *}
                  {if $option.required && count($option.values)===1}
                  <label for="option_{$option.option_id}" class="return">{$option.option_name}</label>
                  {$option.values.0.value_name}{if $option.values.0.price} {$option.values.0.symbol}{$option.values.0.price}{/if}
                  <input type="hidden" name="productOptions[{$option.option_id}]" id="option_{$option.option_id}" value="{$option.values.0.assign_id}" data-price="{$option.values.0.decimal_price}">
                  {else}
                  <label for="option_{$option.option_id}" class="return">{$option.option_name}{if $option.required} ({$LANG.common.required}){/if}</label>
                  <select name="productOptions[{$option.option_id}]" id="option_{$option.option_id}" class="nomarg" {if $option.required}required{/if}>
                     <option value="">{$LANG.form.please_select}</option>
                     {foreach from=$option.values item=value}
                     <option value="{$value.assign_id}"{if $value.absolute_price == '1'}class="absolute"{/if} data-price="{$value.decimal_price}">{$value.value_name}{if $value.price} {$value.symbol}{$value.price}{/if}</option>
                     {/foreach}
                  </select>
                  {/if}
               </div>
            </div>

Change this line: <option value="">{$LANG.form.please_select}</option>

To this: {* <option value="">{$LANG.form.please_select}</option> *}

[keat]

Thanks Brian, I'll take a look

[keat]

 

Hi Brian.

 

I made the subtle change, and whilst it did indeed now default to something, it wasn't the lowest denominator.

For instance (fuses again), we sell in bags of 25, 50, 100, 500 & 1000.

It defaulted to 100

The entry for 100 units does appear in the table before the entry for 25 units..

I exported the table Cubecart_Option_Value, reordered the entries in a tidy order, changed the priority to suit, re-imported the table and now it defaults to the lowest option. I assume this is OK ?

[bsmither]

Is the image above now accurate based on what you manipulated in the table?

In admin, Product Options, Option Attributes tab, select from the drop-down the Option Name referencing the bag quantity.

In the table that appears, the up/down icon is a draggable handle that allows you to sort the Attributes (aka Option Values) for this option.

(Supposedly) No matter in which order these Attributes are assigned to the product, they will be sorted by the order shown in this table.

 

[keat]

Wish I'd known this earlier, however the method I took didn't take me long, less than 5 minutes to re-arrange the whole table.

Baically, I exported the table to a CSV file.

Arranged this in to order by value_name asc, re-arranged a few additional things like small, medium, large & X-large, then set the priority order from 1 through to  however many entries it had (about 40)

 

The image above was before I re-arranged the priority.