Characteristic variants are repeating themselves

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11 years 2 weeks ago #168425

-- url of the page with the problem -- : uhansworkwear.com/men-s/coats-jackets/pr...uilted-flannel-lined
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.2
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.3
-- PHP version -- : 5.3.29
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Firefox31

What's causing this? I had created a product with two characteristics. Color and size. When I add 2 new values to the "sizes" characteristic, I go back to my original product and delete the current "sizes" characteristic because even though I added two new values and they show up in the backend of the product, when I click on manage variants this is what I get. As you can see the product variants are repeating themselves and show 4 or 5 times or more and on the front end, if I was to click on a color and size that is no longer in the backend variants, it will show no stock.
I can't seem to get this to work correctly. As long as I never add a new value to a characteristic, it works fine, but If I add more values to the characteristic, this is how it displays.
I've had to delete the characteristic and recreate a new one so it will work. I don't want to have to create a whole new set of characteristics everytime I need to add another value.
Please help. Thanks so much.

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11 years 2 weeks ago #168427

Hi,

Depending the option "auto variant", HikaShop will try to generate the variants for the product using the characteristic values.
If you remove a characteristic, HikaShop is trying to delete the variants which are not useful (which are duplicates) but there are some cases when the algorithm is not working properly.
I am actually working on a new algorithm for the variant generation ; in order to prepare the integration of characteristics/variants of HikaMarket (which will become the new product edition system in the HikaShop backend too).
So in the next HikaShop release, this variant duplicate should be fixed.

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11 years 2 weeks ago #168513

Ok, thanks.
So if I understand, right now, after creating a characteristic and applying it to a product, I can't change that characteristic (such as adding some new values to the characteristic) and have them show up on that particular product? Is that right?

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11 years 2 weeks ago #168516

Hi,

You can edit the characteristic values of an existing characteristic.

It is just that the feature "auto variants" in HikaShop which will generate automatically the different possibilities when you add/remove a characteristic to a product.
But when you are in the section "manage variants", you can delete/edit/create new variants for your products ; the option "auto variants" is there to help you to generate the variants faster. Taking all values of the characteristic and creating all possible combinations.

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Jerome - Obsidev.com
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Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
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