Dropdown instead of textboxes in product customization

[bangsters]

I need to add products that allow 4 letter initials on both sides of the product. With another cart before, we were able to create 4 dropdowns for the front and 4 for the back, each dropdown has the option of a letter or number.

Is this possible with prestashop? If we are to modify some of the code, where would it be? My apologies but I'm pretty new to prestashop.

Also, on the product packs, can I set a pack limit or how can we customize to be able to do this (or if there's a module existing). We need to be able to set a pack or group where there is a max, say 10 pieces, and they can order any combination of the individual items as long as the total is 10.

Can this be done? Or if someone can do it please PM me.

Thanks

[rocky]

It would be easier to use a text field, but if you must use dropdowns, you could go to Catalog > Attributes and groups, create "Front", "Back", "Left Side" and "Right Side" attribute groups with "A", "B", etc as attributes. Unfortunately, that will generate many combinations and I'm not sure that PrestaShop could handle it.

PrestaShop doesn't have the option for customers to select any 10 products and add them in a pack. It would require custom development.

[bangsters]

Thanks! I'll look into the attributes you mentioned.

As for the packs, what I mean is the packs are defined, like in PACK A, it contains Ipod, Iphone, and Macbook. But when a customer purchases Pack A, he can choose how many Ipod, Iphone, or Macbook right (this is how prestashop works now I believe)? What I need to be able to do, is if Pack A is max 10 units, then the customer can only purchase say 4 Ipods, 5 iphones, and 1 Macbook, since the total will be 10. He cannot get 10 Ipods, then 10 macbooks for Pack A.

How can that be done?

[rocky]

No, PrestaShop doesn't let you do that. You can specify the quantity of each product in the pack, but your customer can't specify how many of each product is in the pack. The best you can do is create multiple packs with different quantities of products. On the product page, the customer can add the pack to their cart, or add individual items from the pack to their cart from the pack listing.

[bangsters]

thanks!

any alternative I can do then? I need to be able to let a customer purchase an item that is a group of sub items. our site is a poker chip site. a customer should be able to buy a 300 chip set and specify how many red, blue, black, as long as total chips are 300.

any idea how this can be done?

[rocky]

I can't think of any way other than using customisable text fields "Red", "Blue" and "Black", but there won't be any validation, so it will rely on the customer making sure that the quantities add up.