Showing Custom Options on Magento Product Page

Question

I am having a problem displaying custom options on the product page in Magento. I'm using Modern as the base for my theme, and changing themes doesn't seem to have any effect. The catalog.xml is almost the stock one for the theme.

When viewing the page, I get the message "Please specify the product's required option(s)." but nothing shows up. Additional information that have been added to the attributes show, but no product specific custom options.

Looking with developer hints, I see that /catalog/product/view/options/wrapper.phtml is not appearing on the file. Could something be missing in one of the layout .xml files?

Any idea what might be going on? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you have tried enabling the default template and it still doesn't work, try creating a new product with some options and see if that works. If that still doesn't work, enable the logs and pop them open and see if there are any errors being recorded during rendering. Also, make sure that they aren't just being hidden using CSS or JavaScript (try turning off the latter, for the former use Firebug to inspect the page)

Answer 2

The problem I had was related to this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/forums/forum/1228365/topic/4978977

The difference is that the attribute was set to container2 in my case when I need it set to container1.

Hope this helps someone else with this issue.

Answer 3

Compare your layout files to the default Magento layout files.