Introduction to Advanced Product Options

Introduction to
Advanced Product Options
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Advanced Product Options
Advanced Product Options extension enables creating any number of the
predefined custom options or combinations of them for products. Then you can
bulk assign predefined custom options to any number of products as well as bulk
remove the assignment of the predefined custom options. It is also possible to
apply predefined custom options directly on the product edit page.
Advanced Product Options extension makes the process of creation of
custom options for bunch of products easy and smooth. You do not have to
create the same custom options for several products separately. All you need to
do is to create custom options template and assign it to needed products in one
click.
Moreover, you can upload images for custom options, track stock inventory, set
default options and make custom options dependent.
Recently Added Features

Features
1) Compatibility with Firegento MageSetup Extension for German market
2) Compatibility with Innoexts_StorePricing
3) New feature "Do Not Restore Deleted Options" is added to the options
templates
4) Ability to select customer groups for special and tier prices
5) "Cost" attribute is added for custom options
6) Ability to update/keep unchanged quantity of product options when
updating options template
7) Multi-dependency functionality
8) "Allow Backorders and Notify Customer" feature
9) Ability to "Allow Backorders" for out-of-stock options

Weight for Custom Options
1. Ability to specify a weight for custom options
2. Ability to setup an absolute weight (option's weight replaces a product's
weight)
3. Shipping costs include weight of custom options

Custom Options Images / Color (Image)
Swatch
1. Ability to upload images for custom options (give your customers graphic
example of what you are offering)
2. Customers can see the images in original sizes on the front-end
3. Ability to create custom options of the "Swatch" type (it displays only
images instead of custom options on the front-end. Customers will click on
images to select a custom option's value)
4. Ability to replace a product's image with a custom option's image
5. Ability to replace a product's gallery with option's gallery
6. Ability to append option's images to product's gallery
7. Ability to display all uploaded images of a custom option above the custom
option (applicable to the drop-down and multiselect only)
8. Ability to change a sorting order of images using a drag-and-drop
functionality
9. Ability to specify color's hash codes to display color's thumbnail on the
front-end (it allows creating color swatch options)
10. Ability to combine several images by placing one image over another.
(Example: you can put an image with some wording over an image with a t-shirt)

Extension URL :
Live Demo
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/advanced-
product-options.html
Frontend URL :
http://product-options-extensions.magentoext.com/
Admin URL :
http://product-options-extensions.magentoext.com/admin
(Please select "Advanced Product Options" in the list of available
extensions)

Frontend Display

1. Disable Compilation Mode if it is enabled
2. Log out from Magento Admin panel if you are logged in
3. Unpack the contents of the ‘extension’ folder from the package file
purchased from MageWorx to your Magento root folder
4. Log into Magento Admin Panel
5. If Cache Control is enabled in Magento go to ‘System >
CacheManagement’ section, select ‘Refresh’ under ‘All Cache drop
down nu and press ‘Save Cache Settings’
6. Enable Compilation Mode back if necessary
7. Now go to ‘System > Configuration > MageWorx tab >Extensions
& Support’ section. If you see ‘Advanced Product Options’ in the list
of installed MageWorx extensions you are done.

If you use a custom template or theme you need to copy the
extension’s layouts and templates to the folders with the custom
design. You should copy all the folders (“layout” and “template”) inside
the folder “app/design/frontend/default/default/” of the extension’s
package to the folder with your current template and/or theme :
“app/design/frontend/<your_template>/<your_theme>/”.
Don’t forget to refresh the cache if enabled

Extension Usage
Log in to Magento Admin panel and go to ‘Catalog’ >
‘Advanced Product Options’ section. Click on the ‘Add
Options’ button to add a new template. You will see
default features available for custom options:

‘Title’ – name of the template. It will be visible for admin on the product edit
page in case of manual assignment.
‘Status’ – a status of the template (Enabled/Disabled).The process of addition
of new options is the same as standard one in Magento except for new
fields like “Description”, “One - time” and “Default”, i.e. when adding new
option you need to specify:
• Title of the option (displayed on the front-end);
•Input Type – the type of options (textarea, check-box, drop-down etc.)
Is Required – determines if an option is required or not at a product page;
• One-time – if enabled, custom option’s price will be added only once to
product total despite the quantity of products added to cart ( Technical
note: the option's price is being divided by the qty of products added to the
cart, though appears as a whole value in the cart);
•Sort Order – determines the sort order of an option among other custom
options at the product page.
• Description – the description of a custom option, which will be displayed
near the option on the front-end. It gives your customers the full details
about what you are offering.

You can also upload an image of each custom option’s value and set the
default value for them
Add image – allows you to upload an image of a custom option. It will
be visible on the front-end near particular custom option. If there is
an image already uploaded for an option’s value, the button
transforms to “Change Image”
Default – this option allows you to specify a default value for custom
option. If specified, appropriate value is shown for custom option by
default on the front-end. If the option’s type is radio-button or drop-
down you can specify only one default value. If it is check-box or
multi-select you can specify several default values

When you are done with options you can assign them to the products. For
this just switch to ‘Products’ tab and select the products you need. Click on
‘Save Options’ to complete. After that the custom options will be assigned to
chosen products and displayed on the front-end for them.Note: you can use
built-in filters to find necessary products easily.
One more feature since v2.0 is the “.
One more feature since v2.0 is the “Duplicate” button. It allows you to
duplicate existing template so that you don't have to create all custom
options again.

Custom Options’ inventory
Advanced Product Options extension allows specifying available
stock quantity for each custom option’s value. For example, if you
have a custom option “Color” with 3 values: Red, Blue and White.
You can specify quantity for each option (Red, Blue or White). This
quantity is decreased when product is purchased and retrieved when
order is canceled or refunded. Available quantity can be shown on
the front-end near each option to show your customers how many
products with particular custom options left.
Out of stock options can be hidden or disabled on the front-
end(this happens automatically when the quantity gets zero).
Note: in order to ensure that quantities of the options previously
assigned to products won’t be overwritten while one makes any
changes to the options template, Qty field is not updatable in this
case. This will guarantee that quantities of custom options of the
products will always reflect actual data.
In order to enable custom options’ inventory you should turn
this feature in the extension’s settings. Once done you will see “Qty”
field for each custom options’ value.

Customer Groups for custom options
Advanced Product Options extension allows you to create
custom options, which are be visible only for particular custom
groups. It’s useful if you provide different products’ configurations
for different customer groups or want to provide different prices of
custom options for different customers.
This feature can be turned on/off in the extension’s settings
(“Enable Customer Groups for custom options”). If on, you will see
“Customer Groups” setting for each option in the back-end

Settings
You can find extension’s settings in System – > Configuration – > MAGEWORX–
Catalog – > Advanced Product Options

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