Hi all,

I'm struggling to get my head round the best way to add a product with
multiple variants to a basket. For instance, say I had a product with size
variants and colour variants, which variant ID do I pass into the basket? Do
I concatenate the variant IDs for Commerce Server to somehow work out?!... O
r
would I create a variant for every combination, and just add that? If this i
s
the case, how would I display the colour in one drop down and the size in
another. Sorry if it seems like I'm asking alot here, I just can't get my
head round it - the penny is taking a while to drop on this one!

Many thanks in advance,
Scott

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Hi Scott,

As per Commerce Server, Each product can have multple variants. But
each Variant is recognised by a VariantId. So in your case, the
combination of "Size" & "Color" makes "One Variant Id". You have 2
solutions:

1. Display the combination of "Size - Color" as one Variant and in
BizDesk assign variantid to each of these combinations. e.g.
SM - Red  (VariantID in BizDesk = smred)
SM - Blue (VariantID in BizDesk = smblue)
XL - Red  (VariantID in BizDesk = xlred)
XL - Blue (VariantID in BizDesk = xlblue)
etc etc.

2. If you want to show "Colors" & "Size" in separate drop downs, in
that case you have to dynamically generate VariantIds in from based
upon user selection and pass that to basket.

#1 is much easier to impelement. If you still have any doubts, let me
know.

Good Luck
Dinesh Chadha


"Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<14DF18ED-7C60-4C6F-B6FB-E3A
20369E76E@microsoft.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to get my head round the best way to add a product with
> multiple variants to a basket. For instance, say I had a product with size
> variants and colour variants, which variant ID do I pass into the basket? 
Do
> I concatenate the variant IDs for Commerce Server to somehow work out?!...
 Or
> would I create a variant for every combination, and just add that? If this
 is
> the case, how would I display the colour in one drop down and the size in
> another. Sorry if it seems like I'm asking alot here, I just can't get my
> head round it - the penny is taking a while to drop on this one!
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Scott

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