idoityourself Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Im completely confused with the new version of prestashop and the combinations. I want to be able to allow my customers to choose as many colour options as they like on the one item, a size, leave some wording, a paper type etc. The combinations generator seems to be linking all these things together creating 100s if not 1000s of different 'combinations' which is not what I need. They aren't in stock items, they are customisation details. My old version seemed to work fine but now Im totally lost how to do it. I don't seem to be able to add my colour options in manually one at a time either?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) Combinations is just simple math. First how many attributes do you have? Is it just color, or do you have some other attribute like size? Second, for each attribute, how many values are there? ie.. Color (black, white, red etc...) Size (small, medium, large etc...) The more attributes you have, and the more values you have, means the total number of combinations will increase. So first let's start by understand what you are trying to accomplish, and what attribute and values you need. Edited October 3, 2014 by bellini13 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idoityourself Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Well as an example on one product I have 91 colour options, 15 size options, 1 wording option, 1 instruction option, 2 file type opions and 3 printing options My concern is its generating a massive list of all these combinations as though they are physical products and I have to give it a quantify of whats in stock. They are all just customisation options, non of it is a real physical product that can run out. I worried it will take up server space and effect load times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PascalVG Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 The way PrestaShop by default works with attributes/variations is really not suitable for many combinations, as you notice here. A different approach does the Attribute Wizard Pro of PrestoChangeo.com. A one time investment (It's not the cheapest Module) But worth it's money, as it's speedy, it actually works with many attributes, and has many options to configure etc. I used it at a project for someone and it works really nice. http://www.presto-changeo.com/en/attribute-modules/34-attribute-wizard-pro.html Worth considering... My 2 cents, pascal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idoityourself Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 (edited) I have attribute wizard pro and it's still giving me a huge list of combinations. I've been running atw with prestashop for the last 4 years at least but now that I've upgraded I've got this issue with the combinations Edited October 5, 2014 by idoityourself (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 The huge list of combinations is unavoidable. It worked this way since at least PS v1.4 What is the exact issue you are having? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idoityourself Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 I've never seen the list before, so if it's something that was always there in the background that's fine. My concern was as above, this giant list took ages to generate and im worried all the combinations will be using resources. Can I at least set the quantity of everything to 1 and allow orders when "out of stock" so I don't have to worry about virtual things running out ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 That is up to you and has nothing to do with combinations. If you do not actually have a hard stock requirement, and would allow the ordering of products without any physical product or inventory, then why would you have stock enabled to begin with? Go to Preferences > Products, scroll down to the Products Stock section and configure this section to fit your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idoityourself Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Perfect thats what Ive been asking about for years and no ones ever responded thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PascalVG Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Do you use the AWP module for ALL your products, where you have variations?? If so, you would never have to generate the combinations in the first place, as AWP uses a different approach. Maybe contact Tomerg3 (http://www.prestashop.com/forums/user/20153-tomerg3/) (the creator of the AWP module) and ask him what combinations you can safely throw away. My 2 cents, pascal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naldinho Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I have attribute wizard pro and it's still giving me a huge list of combinations. I've been running atw with prestashop for the last 4 years at least but now that I've upgraded I've got this issue with the combinations Then you are not using it properly. With AWP you should only have one combination for the default configuration. All other attributes are just added once either as a group or individually depending on if they have an impact on price or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idoityourself Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 It wouldn't let me load them in individually. That might be why they are taking a look at the site for me, hopefully that will fix it because now its just timing out and crashing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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