Some attributes invisible to some groups

[Boxon]

Hi!

I have this problem, I need to sell same product on different terms, for groups "Customers" and "Pro's".

I made product categories by pack size (tanning cream), as different values of attribute "Content" :

  1 bottle 200ml,

1 bag 15ml,

1 pack 12 bottles, and

1pack 300 bags

Now I should make values "1 pack..." visible only to "Pro's", and small packages visible only to "Customers", but, after 2 days of researching, this looks like a impossible problem.

 

So far, all I could think is to make a new product category, with own package sizes, but that is huge process - 80 products in small and big pack, just enough to go crazy...

If anybody has any ideas how to solve this (or rearrange), I will be gratefull.

[tomerg3]

As you said, there is no built in way to do this, only using customization.

 

There are a few ways you can go about doing this, depending on your skill level.

 

The simplest way would probably be by hard-coding some Javascript on the product page, that will remove the options you want to hide based on the customer group.

 

The cleaner option would be to do it in getAttributesGroups() in the product Class

[Boxon]

Well, I must say that my skill level is total bottom-end beginner. Even worse, client purchased theme that is heavily modified, and lot of things are not where they are supposed to be.

So this answer is not really helpful.

More ideas, come on guys, wake up...

[tomerg3]

Hire a developer.

[Dh42]

One way that you can do it is duplicate all of your products and categories. Then have the categories set to where you can only see them with the pro group. I have done this on a couple of sites before. 

[Boxon]

Hire a developer.

Thank you, you are really great. Fantastic answer for support forum. 

[Boxon]

One way that you can do it is duplicate all of your products and categories. Then have the categories set to where you can only see them with the pro group. I have done this on a couple of sites before. 

Dh42,  thank's for your answer. It came as encouragement after tomerg3's sarcastic answer. I will try to handle this somehow. Can you tell me what you had in mind, to duplicate, but where? Just to make a copy of every product, I had that in mind, actually to create a new product, like Face Cream Box, and to have box of 12 bottles as one product, is that what you had in mind?

Small problem is that there is over 80 products in at least 2 packages - 12 bottles, and 300 sachettes, so it's a lot of work...

[Dh42]

I don't think Tomer meant to be snarky, you admitted that you were a bottom end developer with not much experience. It is a valid solution. 

 

As for what I said, yes, duplicate them all. 80 products isn't a lot, the last shop I did it to had over 1000 products. 

[Boxon]

There must be a simplest way to do this. Like, somewhere hardcoded JS that says: "If customer is logged as Pro, make path/path/<option value="71" (or first two keys from array) display:none, else display:block". After a little research, I can make that JS, but I don't have a clue where to put it. As I already said, this is my first contact with Prestashop.

Tomer gave me a little clue, but it was not not really enough... This is getAttributesGroups function:

 

public function getAttributesGroups($id_lang)

{

if (!Combination::isFeatureActive())

return array();

$sql = 'SELECT ag.`id_attribute_group`, ag.`is_color_group`, agl.`name` AS group_name, agl.`public_name` AS public_group_name,

a.`id_attribute`, al.`name` AS attribute_name, a.`color` AS attribute_color, pa.`id_product_attribute`,

IFNULL(stock.quantity, 0) as quantity, product_attribute_shop.`price`, product_attribute_shop.`ecotax`, pa.`weight`,

product_attribute_shop.`default_on`, pa.`reference`, product_attribute_shop.`unit_price_impact`,

pa.`minimal_quantity`, pa.`available_date`, ag.`group_type`

FROM `'._DB_PREFIX_.'product_attribute` pa

'.Shop::addSqlAssociation('product_attribute', 'pa').'

'.Product::sqlStock('pa', 'pa').'

LEFT JOIN `'._DB_PREFIX_.'product_attribute_combination` pac ON pac.`id_product_attribute` = pa.`id_product_attribute`

LEFT JOIN `'._DB_PREFIX_.'attribute` a ON a.`id_attribute` = pac.`id_attribute`

LEFT JOIN `'._DB_PREFIX_.'attribute_group` ag ON ag.`id_attribute_group` = a.`id_attribute_group`

LEFT JOIN `'._DB_PREFIX_.'attribute_lang` al ON a.`id_attribute` = al.`id_attribute`

LEFT JOIN `'._DB_PREFIX_.'attribute_group_lang` agl ON ag.`id_attribute_group` = agl.`id_attribute_group`

'.Shop::addSqlAssociation('attribute', 'a').'

WHERE pa.`id_product` = '.(int)$this->id.'

AND al.`id_lang` = '.(int)$id_lang.'

AND agl.`id_lang` = '.(int)$id_lang.'

GROUP BY id_attribute_group, id_product_attribute

ORDER BY ag.`position` ASC, a.`position` ASC, agl.`name` ASC';

return Db::getInstance()->executeS($sql);

}

 

but I am not sure what to place, and where to place...

[Arnaudf]

I encountered the same problem. I also had to create different sub-categories, visible by only certain clients and duplicated duplicated my items to place them in different categories.

To avoid duplicating items one by one,  I bought StoreCommander module. It allows you to duplicate Categories, subcategories and bunch of products at once.

For this reason and many other editing functionalities, I am quite happy about that purchase.