[ic] Building a new catalog system -- is it this complex?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jeme (jeme at rkdpp.com):
> Let's say we sell workbenches. We have 4 styles of bench in 4 colors.
> Each table comes with a cover in one of 30 colors (customer's choice).
> They each come with a choice of 2 types of rolling casters in one of
> the four bench colors (they don't have to match the bench), except one
> model which comes with rubber feet, but can be given casters for an
> upcharge. That's several hundred variations. Do I have to create each
> product in my products table first? Our old system is on paper and we
> just check the boxes for all the features and colors. There really
> aren't separate SKUs for each entity.
>
> As I understand this, I have to put all of this logic in flypage.html.
> Also, I have to somehow separate that whole mechanism from the generic
> method for showing simple products like hammers and screwdrivers.
>

This is exactly what Simple options are for. You can have as many
as you like for one SKU.

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Mike Heins
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