Change characteristic popup if only one option

There is a need to occasionally have a product with only one characteristic as a variant, e.g. we have a shirt only in Red. But we want it to be a product with a variant because in future we may add other colours.

Now with only one option in a characteristic, it looks on with a pop-up with only one choice. What I would like to do is to either not have the Characteristic appear as a pop-up on the product page, or for it to appear as a Text instead of a popup.

I see that the code is placed by view->product->show_block_charasteristic, but I can not see where it is put together. Can you please direct me to the correct file?

Thanks

Hello,

I think that you'll probably have to edit the show_default file of the product view.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks for the reply Mohamed,

The view->product-> show_default does not render the characteristic popup. That is definitely done by view->product->show_block_charasteristic.

But I do not know what the following calls:
I need to know where the value which is fetched is put together. I may be wrong, but I do not think they are in any of the view files.

You could simply add that code at the beginning of that show_block_characteristic file:
<?php if(empty($this->element->variants) || count($this->element->variants)<2) return true; ?>

That will skip the display of the characteristics if there is only one variant.
The characteristic itself is done via that file in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/types/characteristic.php which you can override as explained in the documentation:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...tation.html#override
But for such a small modification, you should rather do what I said.

Thanks Nicolas,

Do we already have a function I can use to check the number variants or the number of elements in the popup?

What do you mean by "in the popup" ?

Drop down menu

Mmm. I'm not sure I understand.
The code I gave in my message does just that:
<?php if(empty($this->element->variants) || count($this->element->variants)<2) return true; ?>

See the count($this->element->variants)<2

It checks that count of variants is below 2 and if so, it returns (with the return true; code) so that it won't display the rest of the file.

I'm sorry Nicoals. I did not read your post properly, I though because you said add "that" code at the beginning, you wrote the line of code which I should be adding my code before. But you actually had written the code for me to use.

Thank you very much. Working EXACTLY as I wanted it to. Sorry about the time wasting after that.

P.S. I'm not sure if you are aware, but for some reason the view file is called block_charasteristic. It can cause a little confusion when searching for a view with the term "characteristic".

Thank you for the feedback. We'll change the name of the file (you will have to do again your customization after updating).