[ic] combining matrix & simple options for a product

[Brent Kelly]

Hi all,

Has anyone managed to use a combination of matrix AND simple options for a 
single product? Is this possible?

i.e. for each product I have multiple versions and multiple sizes. Each 
version has several attributes that need to be stored (e.g. price, materials, 
etc etc) which i would be using a matrix option for.  But then I also need to 
have a size option, which has no related attributes stored.

So what i am trying to do is have the following structure:

Product:
	Version 1 (several attributes...) 
		Size 1
		Size 2
		Size 3 (etc)
	Version 2 
		Size 1
		Size 2
		Size 3 (etc)
Product 2:
.... and so on.

The user will select a version which will display a product detail page 
display data based on the attributes stored under that version. They will 
also have to select a size before clicking the 'buy now' button.

So i figure that if i could store the version as a matrix option, and the size 
as a simple option, this would achieve what i'm wanting.. 

The only reason i don't want to store them both as matrix options & use 
'generate all possible combinations' is that I don't want the user to have to 
redundantly re-enter all the data for the version attributes for each 
version-size combination (there are quite a few version attributes).

Thanks for any help,

Brent Kelly.