[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # In 1 category the products variants column is gone ## - **[lex131](/forum/user/12191-lex131 "View lex131's Profile")** - [![lex131's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/12191-lex131 "View lex131's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/12191-lex131) Less More - Posts: 90 - Thank you received: 2 - - 11 years 7 months ago [\#194710](#194710) by [lex131](/forum/user/12191-lex131 "View lex131's Profile") *[In 1 category the products variants column is gone](/forum/26-product-category-display/875666-in-1-category-the-products-variants-column-is-gone#194710 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.0 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome, Firefox -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : There are no errors Hello, If you go to domain/abstract and click on any product you will only see the picture of the product and the Add to cart box. If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: Abstract category product - Missing variants")* was created by *[lex131](/forum/user/12191-lex131 "View lex131's Profile")* -- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.0 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome, Firefox -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : There are no errors Hello, If you go to domain/abstract and click on any product you will only see the picture of the product and the Add to cart box. If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: [ ![with-variants.png](/forum/attachment/23096) ](/forum/attachment/23096 "with-variants.png") Abstract category product - Missing variants [ ![missing-variants.png](/forum/attachment/23097) ](/forum/attachment/23097 "...g-variants.png") - [ ![with-variants.png](/forum/attachment/23096) ](/forum/attachment/23096 "with-variants.png") [ ](/forum/attachment/23096?download=1 "with-variants.png") - [ ![missing-variants.png](/forum/attachment/23097) ](/forum/attachment/23097 "...g-variants.png") [ ](/forum/attachment/23097?download=1 "...g-variants.png") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI2LXByb2R1Y3QtY2F0ZWdvcnktZGlzcGxheS84NzU2NjYtaW4tMS1jYXRlZ29yeS10aGUtcHJvZHVjdHMtdmFyaWFudHMtY29sdW1uLWlzLWdvbmU/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) 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)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86290 - Thank you received: 14268 - - 11 years 7 months ago [\#194755](#194755) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[In 1 category the products variants column is gone](/forum/26-product-category-display/875666-in-1-category-the-products-variants-column-is-gone#194755 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.0 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome, Firefox -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : There are no errors Hello, If you go to domain/abstract and click on any product you will only see the picture of the product and the Add to cart box. If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: Abstract category product - Missing variants")* Hi, I don't know what happened but all indicates that the variants and/or characteristics of the products of that category were deleted. It could have been done manually, but if it is for all the products of a category, then it's more likely to come from an automated process like a mass action. So check whether you have configured mass actions via the menu System>Mass actions which could generate such problem. The solution will be to add back the characteristics to the products of the category. 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If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: Abstract category product - Missing variants")* Hello again, I have used Mass Actions to erase a lot of thousands of products. And i erased them using the product code, the main code of the product, i don't even have the codes for all the variants. And I did not erase products one category at a time, I erased them using 10.000 codes at a time, so across many categories at once. This is a screen shot of the Characteristics tab of the product: [ ![characteristics.jpg](/forum/attachment/23274) ](/forum/attachment/23274 "...cteristics.jpg") And when I click on Manage Variants this is what appears [ ![variants.jpg](/forum/attachment/23275) ](/forum/attachment/23275 "variants.jpg") This kind of looks wierd to me. I can see the characteristics but when I click on Manage Variants that message of Succesfully saved appears and no variants. There must be some kind of mixup somewhere. The "add the variants again" advice is easier said than done. There are 200+ products with around 10-15 variants and I don't have a backup of the way I created the variants (quite some time ago). Please help! - [ ![characteristics.jpg](/forum/attachment/23274) ](/forum/attachment/23274 "...cteristics.jpg") [ ](/forum/attachment/23274?download=1 "...cteristics.jpg") - [ ![variants.jpg](/forum/attachment/23275) ](/forum/attachment/23275 "variants.jpg") [ ](/forum/attachment/23275?download=1 "variants.jpg") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzI2LXByb2R1Y3QtY2F0ZWdvcnktZGlzcGxheS84NzU2NjYtaW4tMS1jYXRlZ29yeS10aGUtcHJvZHVjdHMtdmFyaWFudHMtY29sdW1uLWlzLWdvbmU/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) 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)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86290 - Thank you received: 14268 - - 11 years 7 months ago [\#195838](#195838) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[In 1 category the products variants column is gone](/forum/26-product-category-display/875666-in-1-category-the-products-variants-column-is-gone#195838 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.0 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome, Firefox -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : There are no errors Hello, If you go to domain/abstract and click on any product you will only see the picture of the product and the Add to cart box. If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: Abstract category product - Missing variants")* Hi, If the variants have been deleted, they have been deleted. Otherwise, they would show on the variants listing of the product that is displayed when you click on the "manage variants" button. If you have the "automatically generate variants" option of the HikaShop configuration activated, you can get the variants regenerated automatically. But that will still require reconfiguring the variants. The only effective solution here would be to extract the hikashop_characteristic/hikashop_product/hikashop_variant tables from a backup from before they were deleted in order to get back the variants data. 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If you go to domain/anime and click on any product, between the picture and the add to cart product you will see all the options/variants of the product. All the categories that you see on the left side menu work well except the abstract category. I don't know what happened, everything was working ok. I just thought I'd do some work today on it and realised the Abstract category isn't working properly. Also, I went to the backend and clicked on a product in the abstract category and then clicked on Manage Variants and a message appears: Message Successfully Saved And then nothing else besides the backend hikashop menu bar. It's white under that bar. The products in other categories work fine - just this category is weird. Please help me sort this out. Thank you! Normal with variants: Abstract category product - Missing variants")* Hello: We are going to start a project using Hikashop for 100.000 productos. Can you send us your shop url . 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