Admin Configuration

Once you've installed POSM, you can customize the options' stock manager using these settings available in Configuration :: Options' Stock Manager:

Field Name	Field Description	Added
Products' Options' Stock Manager: Version	Displays the plugin's version number.	Removed v5.0.0
Products' Options' Stock Manager: Release Date	Displays the plugin's release date.	Removed v5.0.0
General: Enable Products' Options' Stock Manager?	Allows you to easily enable or disable the overall POSM functionality in your store. This allows you to install the plugin and create your managed options before the store-side processing begins. (Default: true)	v1.5.7
General: Duplicate Model Numbers	Specify how the POSM admin-level tools (Catalog :: Manage Options' Stock and Catalog :: Options Stock — View All) should handle duplicate model numbers. Choose from 1. Allow (default). No special handling is provided. Duplicate model numbers are allowed. 2. Disallow. Duplicate model numbers are highlighted in the tools' display; you cannot save changes for an option-combination that includes a duplicate model number. 3. Message-Only. Duplicate model numbers are highlighted, but duplicate values can be saved.	v2.1.0
General: Options' Stock Re-order Level	Specify the stock-level at which a low-stock email should be sent, if configured, for any products managed by the Options' Stock Manager. (Default: 5)
General: Back-in-Stock Date Reminder	If your store is using POSM's back-in-stock labels with availability dates, you might want a reminder when a date is imminent. Identify the number of days prior to any expiration that the notification should be issued; set the value to 0 (the default) if you do not want a reminder.	v2.3.0
General: Divider Color	Allows you to customize the divider color used in the Catalog :: Manage Options' Stock tool, specified as a CSS color.
General: Option Types to Manage?	Identify the option types to manage. The current version of the plugin supports dropdown (0) and radio-button (2) options only. (Default: 0,2)
General: Optional Option Types List	Enter types of options to be ignored when determining if a product's option-combination is managed, using a packed, comma-separated list. The built-in Zen Cart option types are Dropdown/Select (0), Text (1), Radio (2), Checkbox (3) and File (4) — Read-Only (5) options are automatically ignored.	v1.5.2
General: Optional Option Names List	Enter the list of optional product options for your store, using a packed, comma-separated list of their option_id values. All option values associated with the options that you identify here are ignored when determining if a product's option-combination is managed. Use this value in conjunction with the "Optional Option Types List" to further refine your store's option-combination configurations. For example, if the "Dropdown" option type is in your Option Types to Manage list, but you have one dropdown-type attribute that defines a "Gift Wrapping" choice, that choice doesn't affect whether or not the selected option-combination is in- or out-of-stock. You'd list that option's option_id value here to have it excluded from the POSM option-combinations.	v1.5.2
Stock Status Display: Show Messages?	Choose where (Store Only, Admin Only, Both or Neither) the POSM in-/out-of-stock messages will be displayed. (Default: Both). If you choose Store Only or Both, this status will be displayed to your customers on the shopping_cart, checkout_confirmation and account_history_info pages. See also the Dependent Attributes: Stock Status Display setting, below, which operates independently of this setting. If you choose Admin Only or Both, the in-/out-of-stock messages will be displayed within your Customers->Orders details display, invoices and packing slips.	v1.6.1
Stock Status Display: Messages for Unmanaged Options?	Should the store-side processing include in-/out-of-stock messages for non-POSM-managed products? If set to true, the messages will be displayed depending on the unmanaged product's stock quantity — In Stock if > 0; the default out-of-stock message (PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_STOCK_NOT_IN_STOCK), otherwise.	v1.6.1
Stock Status Display: Include In-Stock Status?	Identifies whether (true) or not (false) an "In Stock" status should be included with the store-side products' display — the status always displays if an option-combination is out-of-stock. (Default: true).
Admin: Model Number Field Width	If the Model/SKU numbers used by your store need more space to display, update this setting to contain a valid CSS width value to increase those inputs' width. The setting is used in both Catalog :: Manage Options' Stock and Catalog :: Options' Stock — View All. (Default: 9em)	v2.1.8
Dependent Attributes: Enable	Identifies whether (true) or not (false) your store-side processing should include the dependent-attributes' javascript. (Default: true)
Dependent Attributes: Insert "Please Choose"?	Identifies whether or not the plugin's dependent-attributes processing should insert a "Please Choose" selection into a product's drop-down options. If false, the first option value for each attribute is assumed to be a "Please choose …" type value. Note: This setting does not apply when a product has a single drop-down option. The language-file constants associated with this setting are present within /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/products_options_stock_extra_definitions.php.
Dependent Attributes: Show Model Number?	Identify whether or not the plugin's dependent-attributes processing should include the model-numbers for each attribute value on the final, selectable attribute's option. (Default: false) Note: A model-number is included only if that value is not an empty string.	v5.0.0
Dependent Attributes: Show Stock Status?	Identify whether or not the plugin's dependent-attributes processing should include the in- or out-of-stock status for each attribute value on the final (or only), selectable attributes option. Note that this setting works in conjunction with the value you set for Show In-Stock Status?; if that value is false and this setting is true, then only out-of-stock status will be displayed on the final, selectable attributes option. (Default: true)
Dependent Attributes: Show In-Stock Quantity in Status?	If the Dependent Attributes: Show Stock Status? setting (see above) is true, should the option-combinations' in-stock quantities be displayed as part of the status? (Default: true)	v1.5.6
Dependent Attributes: Outer Selector	Identify the outer CSS selector (default, an empty string) that wraps all elements associated with a single option. Note: For zc157's built-in templates, this value should be set to .attribBlock. If you are using the Bootstrap 4 template, this setting should remain as an empty string.	v4.2.0
Dependent Attributes: Inner Selector	Identify the inner CSS selector (default: .wrapperAttribsOptions) that contains, at a minimum, each option's name. Note: This value should be changed only if your custom template has modified the attributes' display formatting. In all cases, all the attributes must reside in an HTML container with the id of productAttributes.	v1.4.0
Dependent Attributes: Option Name Selector	Identify the CSS selector (default: .optionName) that identifies the in-line element that contains the current option's name. This value should be changed only if your custom template has modified the attributes' display formatting.	v4.2.0
Dependent Attributes: Attributes' Images' Selector	Identify the CSS selector (default: .attribImg) that wraps, if configured, each attribute's image. This value should be changed only if your custom template has modified the attributes' display formatting.	v4.2.0
Dependent Attributes: Use Minified Script File?	Identify whether or not the plugin's dependent-attributes processing should load the minified version of the jQuery script (default: true), reducing the page-load time for a product's page.	v1.5.5
View All: Allow Model Number Updates?	Should the "View All" processing for Catalog :: Manage Options' Stock enable the managed variants' model numbers to be updated? If set to false, the model numbers are displayed but cannot be updated; you'll need to update the model numbers on a product-by-product basis.	v1.6.1
View All: Maximum Products/Page	Identify the maximum number of products to view per page in the "View All" processing (default: 20). If your store includes a "large" number of products and/or variants that are POSM-managed, setting this value to a large number could result in the message You don't have permission to access /YOUR_ADMIN/products_options_stock_view_all.php on this server..	v2.0.1
Shopping Cart: Display Model Numbers?	Should the shopping_cart page display a product's model-number? If you choose true, a product's model number is appended to its name for the display, e.g. "Product Name [model]", if the model-number is not empty.	v4.0.0
Enable debug?	Controls whether (true) or not (false) the store-side processing should create debug-log files for problem-determination. If enabled, the processing will write records to a myDEBUG-POSM-*.log file, present in your store's /logs directory. (Default: false)

If you've also installed the Price/Weight extension to POSM, some additional configuration settings are added:

Field Name	Field Description
Price/Weight Extension: Version & Release Date	Displays the version and release date associated with the extension.
Price/Weight: Display Price?	Choose whether or not the POSM dependent-attributes processing should include the option-combinations' prices when displaying the information for the final, selectable attribute. (Default: true).
Price/Weight: Display Weight?	Choose how the POSM dependent-attributes processing should handle the option-combinations' weights when displaying the information for the final, selectable attribute. You can choose from Always (the default), Never or Non-Zero Only (displays the weight only if it's not zero).
Price/Weight: Product's Base Price CSS Selector	Identify the CSS selector value that wraps the product's base-price when displaying the product's information page. For the built-in Zen Cart templates, use #productPrices; for the Bootstrap template, use .productPriceTopPrice, .productPriceBottomPrice. Default: #productPrices.
Price/Weight: Admin Price Field Width	Enter the value to use for the CSS width of the "Price" input fields displayed by the Catalog :: Options' Stock Manager and Catalog :: Options' Stock — View All tools. Default (auto).