[TYPO3-commerce] using allArticles=0 and stock-handling

[Sven Schumacher]

Hello,

is there any switch or simple way to get dropdowns (like allArticles=0 
provides) but without nostock-articles?

I have very large attributes-list (3 attributes, each of them have lots 
of values), and I would like to hide non existing attribute-combinations 
of articles (at the moment they are greyed and not selectable) and 
articles out of stock (displayed like normal ones, only after selecting 
and adding to basket I get the information, that they are out of stock, 
which is of course not very customerfriendly.

For example:
First article attribute might be: color (values: dark, green, blue, red, 
violet, orange, yellow, pink, brown, black)
next one might be: size (values: 120, 124, 126, 130, 140, 154, 168, 176, 
XS, S, M, L, XL)
and the last one might be: logo (values: horse, cat, dog, bear, fish)

so, if a yellow shirt in size 126 with a horse isn't in stock, it 
shouldn't be selectable, and even better: not shown.

Using something like:

plugin.tx_commerce_pi1.products.showWithNoStock=0
plugin.tx_commerce_pi1.articles.showWithNoStock=0

produces a white page without any output, so of course an php-error.

After taking a look at category_product.tpl, I found:

<br />
<br />
<h3>SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN</h3>
<em></em>
<br />
<!-- ###SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN### begin-->
<table class="com-select-attributes" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" 
border="0">
	<tr class="com-select-row">	
		<td>###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_TITLE###</td>
		<td>
		<select onchange="###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_ON_CHANGE###" 
name="###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_HTML_ELEMENT_NAME###">
		<!-- ###SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN_ITEM### begin-->
		<option value="###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_VALUE_VALUE###" 
###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_VALUE_STATUS###>
			###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_VALUE_NAME###
		</option>
		<!-- ###SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN_ITEM### end-->
		</select>
		###SELECT_ATTRIBUTES_UNIT###
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>	
<!-- ###SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN### end -->


There is no "NO_STOCK" option, like for allArticles=1, so is there any 
hook, to change the behavior of parsing and adding items of the subpart:
  		<!-- ###SELECTOR_ATTRIBUTES_DROPDOWN_ITEM### begin-->
???
Doing it the same way like for allArticles=1 AND the subpart
			<!-- ###ARTICLE_VIEW### -->
and
		<!-- ###ARTICLE_VIEW_NOSTOCK### -->
should work at this point, too, I think. So I will give it a try, and if 
successful provide a patch as diff for the current svn.