Display picture based upon characteristic chosen

Hi,

I am using the Business Edition of HikaShop. Here is what I am hoping to be able to do:

Product is called "Tri-Star Crew" which is a type of shirt. It comes in Black and Purple and comes in Small, Medium and Large. I want to set up characteristics for Size and Color. I then want to show pictures of the Black product when Black is chosen and the Purple product when purple is chosen. Can I do this without setting up a product for black and a product for purple?

Yes. Once you added your characteristics for your products, go in the "manage variants" area of your product and edit each variant with a different image than the image of the main product and add your image there.
That will then work like on that page:

www.demo.hikashop.com/index.php?option=c...ow&Itemid=82&lang=en

OK, I'm thinking I know the answer to this, but right now what I am doing is this:

Let's say I have a shirt that has S, M, L, XL, 2XL as the sizes and Black, Purple, Gray as the colors.

That generates 15 variants. However, there are just 3 different colors. Do I actually need to upload a picture to every variant?

If the answer is yes, I am going to suggest that you create a way (within the product for instance) that a different picture can be added to the main variant (color in this case) and have it apply to all the variants generated. It would make management of the products much easier.

Let me know if I am doing it correctly/the only way. Thanks!

You're indeed doing it properly. HikaShop is not perfect and that's indeed an area which will require an improvement

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Is there any way around this problem? in my case i generate to many variants to change one by one... i have a Boot in three colors, and i have 10 sizes for each boot... i also have more than 10 models of boots. So instead of choosing the image 30 times i'll have to do it 300

Any Sugestions!

For the options which don't require the image to change, maybe you could use instead of a characteristic an option ( www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ct-form.html#options ) or a custom item field ( www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...p-field-listing.html ) ?

It almost works with the option alternative, but it's not there yet.

What i would like to do is something like this: global.burton.com/mens-boots-moto-boot/2...rt=1&cgid=mens-boots or www.blue-tomato.com/es/Botas-de-snow/Bur...to?product=300424411

Which i was almost able to do do with the combination of two characteristics, except i could't select the color threw an image and it would imply to add the same images over and over again (3 colors x 10 sizes x 10 products)...

Thank you for your attention.

If you only have three images (one per color) you should just have a color characteristic.
Then, the size selection can be done with an option instead of a characteristic. That way, you only have to upload each image once for your product.

Then i'll have problem with stock management, that won't cross size with color.

If i understand correctly i whould create 10 sub products (one per size) and list them as options on the main product
And i whould add color charactheristic to the Main product aswell.
That whould cause me to have two diferent stocks, one for color and one for size.

Sorry for asking so many questions, but i really need this to work on my website.

And thankyou a lot for your fast replys

Ah yes, if you want to have the stock on variants based on color and size, then you will indeed have to keep both as characteristics and upload an image for each variant, even if you upload the same one for several variants.
I don't have a solution to accommodate for both the stock and the images like you want.

Ok, thanks.

Is there any way to select the product color thru an image instead of a dropdown list?

Or some way around where i could have images linking to child products on the main product page?

It's possible to do it with a characteristic display override:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...tation.html#override
That require coding skills though.

Thanks