Additional Option titel to distinguish different options

Hi!

I have created some options and my problem is, that some options have the SAME title but DIFFERENT option values.

Example:
Option 1: name is "Package size" and options are 10g, 50g, 100g
Option 2:name is also "Package size", but options are 100ml and 250ml

In the backend list I get the same title "Package size" but no hint which is which.

And I have ten of it

So an additional "Title" field would be fine, which is shown in the backend list but not anywhere else. So I could enter "Package size 10g, 50g, 100g" and "Package size 100ml, 250ml" but below the article with both options I get only "Package size" (as I wish).

I have written a quick and dirty hack for me, where the name is scanned for special chars ("---") and all after these isn't shown. So in my backend list I have

"Package size --- 10g, 50g, 100g"
"Package size --- 100ml, 250ml"

So I can distinguish them.

The hack is quite simple. I replaced the normal output in components/com_eshop/themes/your_template/views/product/default.php

  echo $option->option_name;

with

  echo trim (substr($option->option_name, 0, strpos($option->option_name, '---')? : strlen($option->option_name)));

That works fine, but an additional title would be better, of course.

Best regards,
Christoph

Hello Christoph,

Thank you for submitting the suggestion here. Seem it is a very odd case when you have multiple options with same name

I can help you to override the layouts of EShop at back-end side to add the ID to the option name if you want. So you can look at the ID to know which options.

Sincerely, Giang