VirtueMart - Adding Product Attributes

Outline

To add a drop down option to a product:

1. Log in to your administration
2. From top menu 'Components' > 'Virtuemart'
3. From left menu 'Products' > 'List Products'
4. Click the product name of the product you would like to edit
5. Click the 'Product Status' tab
6. For the Attribute List enter a title (ie Color)
7. Under that title enter the specific choices (or properties) ie Red
8. To add additional choices click 'New property' next to the title
9. Once you have entered all the choices (or properties) for the attribute click 'Save' at the top right corner

Making specific choices in an attribute adjust the price:

• Next to the property that you would like to make adjust the price, in the 'Price' field enter:
• +1 (to add $1 to the product price)
• -1 (to take $1 off the product price)
• =1 (to override the default product price and set the product price to $1)
  

To add a blank text field to a product:

1. Log in to your administration
2. From top menu 'Components' > 'Virtuemart'
3. From left menu 'Products' > 'List Products'
4. Click the product name of the product you would like to edit
5. Click the 'Product Status' tab
6. Find the 'Custom Attribute List' at the bottom of the page
7. Enter the name of the text attribute (to enter more then one text field for a product, separate the titles with ;
   
8. Click 'Save' at the top right corner of the page

Having Multiple Products with the Same Attributes

Once you have a product that has a lot of the same attributes that other products will have, instead of having to individually re-enter those attributes for each product, this is how to duplicate those attributes to a new product:

1. Log in to your administration
2. From top menu 'Components' > 'Virtuemart'
3. From left menu 'Products' > 'List Products'
4. Click the 'Clone Product' icon associated with the existing product that contains the attributes you want to replicate.
5. Change any information that needs to be changed for the new product (ie Name, Sku, Description, Price, Qty, Image)
6. Click 'Save'
7. The new product was added, using the same outline as the original product you cloned.
   

Keywords

Virtuemart Product Attributes, Drop down box, text box