Best way to display product Attributes

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10 years 4 months ago #198147

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.33
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6
-- PHP version -- : 5.4.35
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome

I have products that are very much the same but come with different features.

For example:
-4 different sizes
-some added sun protection
-some added insect protection
-some National Geographic Collection designs
-some ship 3 pm evrery day, others within a week
...

I would like to have this information sitting next to the product preferably above the add to cart where you have the Characteristics showing. The attached screenshot is from the template demo as my website is currently in development.Would love to have custom text here so I can design those attributes using brand icons and add extra information with links to articles popping up in modal windows.

Options and Characteristics don't fit. Custom fields would do the job but they show up on the Specifications tab so not directly obvious. HTML in the product description would probably do the job to but then I can't run Mass actions with these attributes as filter.

Is it possible to shift the Custom fields from Specifications to the Characteristics area?
Would this be the best way to implement or does anything speak against this?
Does Hikashop provide any method so I can select the predefined attributes in the product backend without having to touch html.
Would be great if you have some ideas to bounce around.

Regards,

Edward
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10 years 4 months ago #198148

Totally forgot: I would love to use the filter to enable customers to only show products with sun protection or on National Geographic desings, ...

Regards,

Edward

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10 years 4 months ago #198168

Hi,

You definitely want to go with custom fields of the table "product" here.
That will allow to to have filters on them.

And actually, the custom product fields data does display on the right side of the product page by default. They only display in the specification tab if you've changed the "product page layout" from "default" to "tabular".
So the simple solution is to change that setting back to "default".
But you might want to keep the tabular display layout and in that case, it will require some modifications to the "show_tabular" view file via the menu Display>Views in order to move the specifications area from its own tab to the right area as it is done in the "show_default" view file.

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