New more user friendly product/variants logic. Let's discuss

a.m. wrote:

Download as PDF - one could put a link to this on homepage, I was thinking front-end like New Products - All Products.

Product Inventory searching.

Product: Canon Digital SLR Camera

Has two variants

Canon Digital SLR Camera - Black  $670

Canon Digital SLR Camera - Silver $630


Manage Products
Search Product Name: Canon Digital SLR Camera
Does not return any products?


The actual name of the product is: Canon Digital Rebel XSi 12.2 MP Digital SLR Camera

I think that could be a little confusing.

Home   /
Electronics   /
Camera, photo   /
Canon Digital SLR Camera
is actually
Canon’s EOS Rebel XSi.

Effectively three titles for the same product.

Attributes vs Variants

This product currently has two variants  : black and silver.

It could be published using one variant with an attribute (color) and two records (black) and (silver) with a price adjustment.

Using attributes was the way I learned rather than variants.

How will this change with the new logic?

jariwalakrunal wrote:


yes you are right. I got both things mixed up along the thought . but still, there should be also a "add to cart" button for the grouped product that will add all the associated products to the cart. in magento, there is also a default quantity.

I also would like to know at this point what the purpose of setting prices and managing inventory and all the options for the grouped product is ,  ... (this is where I got confused with bundled products)... I still think that with this version, we are half way between grouped and bundled products.

This change is a great movement.

This way, we can share a simple product in some grouped products and we don't lose stock control and it's easy to manage prices, etc.

Now, with product variants, if two products uses same product variant, we have to duplicate it and is to dificult to manage prices, text, stock (imagine with hundred of products and 10 variants on each one...)

sch09 wrote:
jariwalakrunal is absolutely right. bundle products != grouped products

sch09 wrote:
You always can create a new product template for such grouped product

sch09 wrote:
similar in magento all these fields (price, inventory, etc) are ignored for grouped products

JonNopper wrote:
That's just a sample data. Furthermore, there's no such product with "Canon Digital Rebel XSi 12.2 MP Digital SLR Camera" name. The grouped product name is "Canon Digital SLR Camera" if you have a look at the latest development version.


JonNopper wrote:
Not sure that I got your question. We don't have variants anymore. We have simple products (with or without attributes) and we have grouped products with associated products.

a.m. wrote:

I have downloaded the changeset from this thread (So please download the latest development version, install from scratch, and play with it.)
I can see the new SKU, price and stock quantity. Definitely an improvement.
But I get this error:

Admin area > Manage Products > Edit
The partial view '_CreateOrUpdate.SEO' was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations.

Source Error:
Line 31: @helper TabSeo()
Line 32: {
Line 33:     @Html.Partial("_CreateOrUpdate.SEO", Model)
Line 34: }
Line 35: @helper TabCategories()

JonNopper wrote:
Everything works fine out of the box. Do you have the following file? \Nop.Web\Administration\Views\Product\_CreateOrUpdate.SEO.cshtml

Yes it is in the source.


nopcommerce _2dcb54b7e1ca
Windows 8
Visual Studio 2012 Professional


I shall re-build, deploy and try again.