Hello forum!
My company is using the Oxid web shop for quite some time now, but none of us know much about its different functions and the plentiful of options to choose from.
We use an electronic inventory management software and are looking to connect it to the web shop so that our day-to-day business can proceed normally while the shop is running. Thing is: for different variants of the same article (colour, size) we generated individual files to display them side by side in the shop.
Since we’re changing things up, we’ll be using parent articles with the variants connected to them. But we still want to display them side by side in the shop and fear that it will not be possible anymore.
Is there any way to achieve it still, even with the proposed change in the system?
Thanks for all help and answers!
-Matt
The idea is: parent articles show up in lists, variants do not. You could modify your shop to show variants in lists, but this requires some programming, additionally variants have to be assigned to categories and by default they are not searchable. The more easy way might be to adjust your import scripts to import variants of your inventory management as separate articles in oxid.
you could modify your list templates to show article variants, in this case you don’t need to assign variants to categories, but loading lots of variants could affect shop performance and you will have less control over the amount of products per page (sometimes there will be more, sometimes less products)
Thank you for the replies, guys! Since I am no programmer, and it appears to be some effort, I believe we’ll just stick with parent articles shown in the shop.
Nonetheless, thank you for taking the time to answer my question!