Related Product Attributes

[jeffrey]

I am have a really tough time with this wondering if anyone can help. I am really new to Merchant 5 and I am trying to get the related product to display with their attributes on the product page. I have the most recent version of Sebenza's Product Page Template, but i am not sure how to get it to work. If anyone has any idea how to do this it would be greatly appreciated:D

[dotCOM_host]

Related products get displayed on the product pages by default - you don't have to do a thing, just assign products as 'related' to one another. What is it specifically that you have problems with or doesn't work the way you want?

[jeffrey]

As far as the related products showing up that is not my problem, its getting the attributes of those related products to show up on the product page as well.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Without additional support, the attributes of a related product cannot be displayed on another product page. Rather they appear when the customer clicks the link to the related product's page, or clicks add to basket in which case they get an intermediate window that displays any required attributes.

[dotCOM_host]

As far as the related products showing up that is not my problem, its getting the attributes of those related products to show up on the product page as well.
Ah, I missed that part somehow :-) But, it looks like Bruce beat me to a response on this and explained how the attributes work. Since they go with a specific product, you can only view the attributes when you view the product in question. If you want to change that, you would most definitely need a 3rd party module (don't know of any off-the-shelf) or a custom mod written to do this in your store. I believe Bruce would be qualified to write one, if you are interested, so contact him off-list. If he's not able to write it or it doesn't fit in his schedule, send me a note, I may have other developers I can also refer you to for such programming tasks.