Thread: Feature Request: Size and Color display

Anyone have any thoughts on how difficult it would be to make an XML package that would show inventory in size and color in one glance on a page with those sizes or colors that were out of stock displayed in grey to signify temporarily out of stock. On items that have multiple sizes, it can be frustrating for customers to cycle through the drop down and repeatedly get "sorry out of stock" message.


Example from banana republic website:

This would be best handled with xml and ajax... I'm not sure how sturdy it would be using the color size modifiers... probably ok. But we have done a similar implementation of this for products that use multiple variants. It was also tied to variant data like price, name, image, stock status.

Yes, this is best handled by AJAX and custom product XmlPackage. We have done this in 2 ways (both using the modifiers) where the first example at http://www.thecloset.com/p-1058-obey...l-bandeau.aspx hides any combinations that aren't available (in this example the AJAX actually powers the images and add to cart form too) and another solution we have shows all the color/size combos but only allows you to select those in stock (sorry can't give a link to this just yet).

If you are interested in such AJAX/modifier solution contact Jan at jsimacek@compunix.us