Loading child description and other child properties on specific selection

Is it possible to load the child description and other child information as the user selects a child product by selecting a specific in the parent product page view?

Aside from the description, one set of data I'm looking for is a list of the categories a selected child is in.

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Laura Coles (757)

Ah that's awesome, I wondered why some templates were loaded as an AJAX template while others weren't.

Perhaps too hard, but now I've seen it's possible, I've got one Custom Script I'd like to reload on variation selection. Do you think this would be possible using this approach?

Otherwise do you know how I could list a parents active child SKUs? Something like [childSku , childSKU2, ...] ?

Thanks so much Erik, the last couple of questions you've answered have really helped me.

Erik Merkley

Yeah it's not that simple. Nothing here is happening server-side, that B@SE code is just generating JS. In fact that block won't even output anything, it's just setting up the text representing some JS objects in the Neto variables facebook_track and facebook_extra. Later on in the custom script it uses these to generate the important line which does the work on the client:

fbq('track', '[@facebook_track@]';[@facebook_extra@]);

Take a look at what that custom script actually generates in the page source and it will be a lot clearer what is happening.

It can get really confusing when you have server-side code generating client-side code! Facebook pixel is hard enough to work with as it is.

Erik Merkley

Weird, it seems to work for me. You're probably just getting cached results (from the server cache, clearing your browser cache won't help). Easiest way to overcome this is to append a code to the querystring, and increment it each time you make a change, like this:

https://www.thetrail.co/footwear/?c=1

https://www.thetrail.co/footwear/?c=2

https://www.thetrail.co/footwear/?c=3

etc.

Because that appears to be a unique URL to the server, it forces it to regenerate the page instead of draw from the cache. Turning on Web Development mode in the settings can help too, although I don't find it perfect at avoiding caching.