I'm still going through the hellishly long pages of this thread to find an answer, but perhaps someone can either answer or point me in the right direction to save my time and sanity.
I'm using the slave products primarily as quantity options. I'm working on a printing site that sells fixed quantities (1000, 2500, etc) of product but also needs the functioniality to sell multiples of those fixed quantities (i.e., 3x2500). The Master/Slave works perfectly for this and helps the shipping costs figure correctly.
HOWEVER, I need the following functionality which seems like it wouldn't be too difficult:
Master Product/Description
Master Options
Slave Products (Quantities)
(when add to cart is clicked, the master options are applied to whatever slaves are selected by the user and added to cart as one listing) for example: user chooses 14pt paper weight (master option) and 2x2500 quantity (slave options) and it lists in cart all together. i know there's a mod early on in this thread to get master and slave to add together, but a) doesn't seem to match current version of your contrib and b) would add as 2 separate products.
I know as well that I could add all the master options under each slave product, but that's precisely the mess I'm trying to avoid. Plus, I have some mods installed on the attributes (upload file, text fields) that don't even work properly under the [un-modified] slave products.
Ok, think that's it - any ideas?
nathan