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Adding a New Product in Drupal Commerce
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Add New Product Problem

I have installed drupal commerce kikstart. I am trying to add a new product and the system presented me with the following pre created content type: Bags & Cases, Drinks, Hat, Shoes Storage Devices and Tops to choose from. The product I am creating is an air conditioning unit and does not fall in the categories presented and enumerated above. I have created a content type called Air Conditioning Unit, thinking that it will show up on the list above. It did not. . I noticed that under content type, there is a column called CONTENT DISPLAY, which is set to YES for the content types above: Bags & Cases, Drinks, Hat, Shoes Storage Devices and Tops. But, I can't see where exactly to turn that YES switch on. I have looked and tried everything for the past 24 hours to no avail. I would appreciate any help anyone could provide on this

Asked by: jon tegu
on October 22, 2014

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Really you want to create a new variation type and a node/content type that references it. Kickstart does this for you if you create the variation at admin/commerce/config/product-variation-types

It will probably be easiest if you delete the new content type you've created and then create the variation.
It also sounds as though you installed the demo content, which means you have an amount of work ahead of you in deleting it or working around it. If you've not got too far in your customisations then consider reinstalling without the demo data.

Andy @ BlueFusion
Answer by: Andy @ BlueFusion
Posted: Oct 23, 2014
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Thanks a bunch for this answer. I thought I did not explain it sufficiently but it looks like you understand exactly what I am running into.

Answer by: jon tegu
Posted: Oct 23, 2014
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Andy- thanks for the steps. It works. The reason I installed the demo version is to be able to walk the steps backward to recreate my items using the precreated items as compasses. Apparently, that did not work. Is there a book out there that is comprehensive enough to help someone use Drupal more efficiently? The youtube videos on the subject are not always on the mark.

Answer by: jon tegu
Posted: Oct 23, 2014
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I think it's the 'comprehensive enough' thing that's the problem. There are so many use cases you can address with Drupal that you're not going all of your questions answered in one location. In general, I like http://definitivedrupal.org/ - which has a chapter on Drupal Commerce. There is also https://commerceguys.com/drupal-commerce-cookbook - which I've not read.

As you say, a lot of the videos out there are from a previous version of DC and don't help finding things in the current version.

If you have the ability to record videos maybe you can make some as you figure things out?

Andy @ BlueFusion
Answer by: Andy @ BlueFusion
Posted: Oct 23, 2014