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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => Product creation => Topic started by: risingfire on November 27, 2012, 22:28:46 PM

Title: What, exactly, does "Parent Orderable" do in custom field Generic Child Variant?
Post by: risingfire on November 27, 2012, 22:28:46 PM
Using VirtueMart 2.0.14.  I have a parent and several child products and the ordering of the children in the add-to-cart/product details page are... confusing.  What, exactly, does the option "Parent Orderable" in the Generic Child Variant custom field do?
Title: Re: What, exactly, does "Parent Orderable" do in custom field Generic Child Variant?
Post by: K&K media production on November 27, 2012, 23:57:12 PM
It says your customers can order the parent product. Without this checkbox only the child products are orderable. In this case the cutomer must choose in frontend one of the child products from dropdown list to order the product.
Title: Re: What, exactly, does "Parent Orderable" do in custom field Generic Child Variant?
Post by: risingfire on November 28, 2012, 16:21:28 PM
Quote from: kkmediaproduction on November 27, 2012, 23:57:12 PM
It says your customers can order the parent product. Without this checkbox only the child products are orderable. In this case the cutomer must choose in frontend one of the child products from dropdown list to order the product.

*Thank you* -- I kept thinking of that option in terms of the parent somehow overriding the order of the children in the drop-down selection list in the frontend!  Okay; now it makes total sense.  Much appreciated explanation!
Title: Re: What, exactly, does "Parent Orderable" do in custom field Generic Child Variant?
Post by: afterglow80 on December 31, 2012, 20:35:29 PM
2.0.16 I can still add parent to cart when "parent orderable" is unchecked...why?
Title: Re: What, exactly, does "Parent Orderable" do in custom field Generic Child Variant?
Post by: Milbo on January 03, 2013, 16:54:56 PM
I am sorry, I cannot reproduce. Is your parent also as option selectable, or not?