The Small Green Tree Blog

Many products have “attributes“. For example if you sell shoes they might be available in different sizes and different colors.

In coping with attributes, one approach would be to create a separate product code for each possible product option - but you would soon find you are dealing with a huge database of products!

So for that reason you have always been able to add a field for attributes with your Web-store-buddy “buy now” buttons (typically a drop down list). Like so:

However, with only one drop down list to work with, this method gets awkward if you have multiple sets of attributes. For example supposing you had lots of size variations and lots of color variations! You could try adding them to one list like this:

This approach is fine with just a few product options.  But when you have lots of options (and lots of different types of options), it gets out of hand.

So to solve this problem we’ve upgraded the Web-store-buddy attributes feature so that you can now add up to five separate attribute lists to a buy now button. Here is the example above using the new method and two attribute lists.

If you use web forms with file uploads, we’re pleased to announce some new features!

• Web-form-buddy now supports multiple file attachments.
• As before, you can choose whether a file upload is optional or required. But in addition, you can set a number for how many files are required.
• You can set a size limit independently for the maximum size of any one attachment as well as the maximum size for all the upload files taken together. Previously the maximum upload size was 5Mb - that has been increased to 10Mb.
• You can set a limit on the number of file uploads (from 1 to 10).