[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Characteristics issue on multiple products ## - **[uteco](/forum/user/5467-uteco "View uteco's Profile")** - [![uteco's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/5467-uteco "View uteco's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/5467-uteco) Less More - Posts: 43 - Thank you received: 3 - - 14 years 9 months ago - 14 years 9 months ago [\#36276](#36276) by [uteco](/forum/user/5467-uteco "View uteco's Profile") *[Characteristics issue on multiple products](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/36276-characteristics-issue-on-multiple-products#36276 "lets assume we have 10 products each product has different variations (lets say five on each caracteristic) when you add a caracteristic products->caracteristics you add for example the title "Measurement" and valuse "1mm","2mm","3mm" for the first product and "3mm", "9mm", "20mm" for the next product and the same goes for the next caracteristic and so on you get at the end a useless amount of variations on the product page when calling all the carateristics! I had for example added 4 caracteristics on a product and the "manage variations" gave 160 variations!! But the product had only 5 different variations. Just because other products had "Measurement" caracteristics it added them all up in that product and made variations of them as well. If you could choose the applying caracteristics like the custom fileds which have multiple dropdown the automated creation of variations would be narrowed to these values! The problem is that you have to delete manually the wrong variations and since we are talking about numbers and codes it is easy to delete accidantly a right variation.")* was created by *[uteco](/forum/user/5467-uteco "View uteco's Profile")* lets assume we have 10 products each product has different variations (lets say five on each caracteristic) when you add a caracteristic products->caracteristics you add for example the title "Measurement" and valuse "1mm","2mm","3mm" for the first product and "3mm", "9mm", "20mm" for the next product and the same goes for the next caracteristic and so on you get at the end a useless amount of variations on the product page when calling all the carateristics! I had for example added 4 caracteristics on a product and the "manage variations" gave 160 variations!! But the product had only 5 different variations. Just because other products had "Measurement" caracteristics it added them all up in that product and made variations of them as well. If you could choose the applying caracteristics like the **custom fileds** which have multiple dropdown the automated creation of variations would be narrowed to these values! The problem is that you have to delete manually the wrong variations and since we are talking about numbers and codes it is easy to delete accidantly a right variation. Last edit: 14 years 9 months ago by [uteco](/forum/user/5467-uteco "View uteco's Profile"). Reason: correction Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzM2Mjc2LWNoYXJhY3RlcmlzdGljcy1pc3N1ZS1vbi1tdWx0aXBsZS1wcm9kdWN0cz90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86323 - Thank you received: 14283 - - 14 years 9 months ago [\#36319](#36319) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Characteristics issue on multiple products](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/36276-characteristics-issue-on-multiple-products#36319 "lets assume we have 10 products each product has different variations (lets say five on each caracteristic) when you add a caracteristic products->caracteristics you add for example the title "Measurement" and valuse "1mm","2mm","3mm" for the first product and "3mm", "9mm", "20mm" for the next product and the same goes for the next caracteristic and so on you get at the end a useless amount of variations on the product page when calling all the carateristics! I had for example added 4 caracteristics on a product and the "manage variations" gave 160 variations!! But the product had only 5 different variations. Just because other products had "Measurement" caracteristics it added them all up in that product and made variations of them as well. If you could choose the applying caracteristics like the custom fileds which have multiple dropdown the automated creation of variations would be narrowed to these values! The problem is that you have to delete manually the wrong variations and since we are talking about numbers and codes it is easy to delete accidantly a right variation.")* Hi, There are several solutions to that: 1. You can use options instead of characteristics: [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...html#characteristics](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/integrated-documentation/19-hikashop-product-form.html#characteristics) 2. You can use custom fields of the table "item" instead of characteristics. [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...p-field-listing.html](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/integrated-documentation/41-hikashop-field-listing.html) 3. You can create several characteristics so that you separate your values in different characteristics and thus when you add a characteristic to a product, you only get the relevant variants generated. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzM2Mjc2LWNoYXJhY3RlcmlzdGljcy1pc3N1ZS1vbi1tdWx0aXBsZS1wcm9kdWN0cz90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. 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