[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Change characteristic popup if only one option ## - **[esotechie](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile")** - [![esotechie's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar7143.jpg)](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/7143-esotechie) Less More - Posts: 180 - Thank you received: 13 - - - - [](http://www.halare.co.uk/) - 14 years 3 months ago [\#57616](#57616) by [esotechie](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile") *[Change characteristic popup if only one option](/forum/4-how-to/57616-change-characteristic-popup-if-only-one-option#57616 "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")* was created by *[esotechie](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile")* 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? 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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. 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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")* 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: Code: $this->characteristic->displayFE($this->element, $this->params) I need to know where the value which is fetched is put together. I may be wrong, but I do not think they are in any of the view files. Last edit: 14 years 3 months ago by [esotechie](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile"). Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU3NjE2LWNoYW5nZS1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpYy1wb3B1cC1pZi1vbmx5LW9uZS1vcHRpb24/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86322 - Thank you received: 14280 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#57713](#57713) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Change characteristic popup if only one option](/forum/4-how-to/57616-change-characteristic-popup-if-only-one-option#57713 "There is a need to occasionally have a product with only one characteristic as a variant, e.g. we have a shirt only in Red. But we want it to be a product with a variant because in future we may add other colours. Now with only one option in a characteristic, it looks on with a pop-up with only one choice. What I would like to do is to either not have the Characteristic appear as a pop-up on the product page, or for it to appear as a Text instead of a popup. I see that the code is placed by view->product->show_block_charasteristic, but I can not see where it is put together. Can you please direct me to the correct file? Thanks")* You could simply add that code at the beginning of that show_block_characteristic file: <?php if(empty($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](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/62-hikashop-developer-documentation.html#override) But for such a small modification, you should rather do what I said. 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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")* Thanks Nicolas, Do we already have a function I can use to check the number variants or the number of elements in the popup? 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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")* What do you mean by "in the popup" ? 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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")* Drop down menu ![:)](/media/kunena/emoticons/3.png ":)") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU3NjE2LWNoYW5nZS1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpYy1wb3B1cC1pZi1vbmx5LW9uZS1vcHRpb24/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86322 - Thank you received: 14280 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#57846](#57846) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Change characteristic popup if only one option](/forum/4-how-to/57616-change-characteristic-popup-if-only-one-option#57846 "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")* 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. 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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")* 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". Last edit: 14 years 3 months ago by [esotechie](/forum/user/7143-esotechie "View esotechie's Profile"). 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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")* Thank you for the feedback. We'll change the name of the file (you will have to do again your customization after updating). Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU3NjE2LWNoYW5nZS1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpYy1wb3B1cC1pZi1vbmx5LW9uZS1vcHRpb24/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. 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