osCommerce product options & Values

This chapter describes how to manage osCommerce Product Options and their values.

You can perform basic operations (add, edit, delete) with Options and Values of all products, other than doing it through some product menu. The main page of this section looks like:

Where Options appear as folders (marked in blue) and Values are listed after expanding an option. Add, Edit and Delete dropdowns include corresponding actions for either osCommerce product option or osCommerce product value. Basically, a specific value of some option is an attribute. So this data is used when creating and editing product attributes.

The following topicks are covered:

• Product Options
• Option Values

Product Options

From product options toolbar and context menu, you can perform the following basic operations:

1. Refresh Data  forces options list update. It is useful when you're changing connection or have any doubts like is the latest data displayed.

3. To edit osCommerce product option you can double click on it or use Edit Product Option button. It calls Edit product option form for selected product option. You can change Product Option name here.

4. You can Delete Selected Product Option from store using "Delete" button on the toolbar.

By deleting an option you'll delete all it's values as well and remove all references. So if some products have let's say Color option, this option will be removed from all products that includes it.

You won't be able to undo delete from store action, unless you've made a Database backup. 

5. You can Remove Option from Products using corresponding command in the option's context menu.

This action is simular to the previous one, but while deleting an option from products you will not delete it and it's values from store but you will remove all references to it in products. So if some products have let's say Black Color attribute, this attribute will be removed from all products.

6. You can simplify options management by using Expand all or Collapse icons on the the toolbar.

osCommerce Product Option Values

Product Options/Values section allows you to perform the following basic operations with option values:

1. Refresh data   forces option values list update. It is useful when you're changing connection or have any doubts like is the latest data displayed.

2. Add -> New option value calls blank Edit option value form, which is used to create a new option value. Blank Product Option Value form has two fields: Option Name and Value name. Option name has to be specified (selected from a dropdown). If desired option doesn't exist yet, you'll have to create it first.

3. To edit product option value you can double click on it or press "Edit option value" button.

It calls Edit Option Value form for selected osCommerce product option value. You can select Option name and change Value name here.

If you have a store running in more than one language you'll be able to see the language tabs in this form to write Value Names in any language available.

 

4. You can Delete selected product option values from store using "Delete" button on the toolbar.

 

By deleting an option values you'll delete them from the store and remove all references. So if some products have let's say Black Color option value, this value will be removed from all products.

You won't be able to undo delete from store action, unless you've made a database backup. 

5. You can Remove Option Values from Products using context menu:

6. You can simplify osCommerce options values management by using Expand all or Collapse icons.