Hmm, I'm not totally sure about that, I wasn't sure to begin with but thought that maybe you hadn't seen the tutorial. Sorry that I can't be of more assistance. It sounds like your advice to your client is spot on though. Maybe Bruce or Chris could weigh in on the confusion?
-Josh On Nov 14, 2:28 am, Joseph Wayodi <jway...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Josh <josh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure if this exactly answers your question but check out this > > tutorial, it talks about adding product variations, etc...: > >http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/tutorial1.html > > Hi Josh, > > Sorry if I wasn't more clear. > > Adding product variations as per the tutorial (checking the Create > Variations checkbox on the Change Configurable Product page) works okay. > > A customer of ours stumbled upon the "idea" of sharing option groups among > different products. For example, she has an option group named "Color", with > about 30 options (i.e Red, Green, Blue, etc.). And then she has a number of > different products that have variations based on this group, but each of > which uses only around 4 out of the 30 options (i.e. red shirt, green shirt; > red jacket, blue jacket, etc.). > > So, she has been creating (all) variations for each configurable product (by > checking the Create Variations checkbox on the Change Configurable Product > page), and then going back and deleting the variations that she does not > want (by clicking on Delete ProductVariation, in the Variations section, at > the bottom of the Change Configurable Product page). > > So, she was wondering why she can't simply create just the variations she > wants, by clicking on Add Variation, in the Variations section, at the > bottom of the Change Configurable Product page. This gives the error I > referred to in my original post. > > I have advised her to instead use the Variation Manager to do the kind of > thing she wants. Or even better, to restrict Option Groups to a single > product (because of things like being able to have price variations). > > I am also wondering what the Add Variation link, in the Variations section, > at the bottom of the Change Configurable Product page, is used for. Maybe it > should be removed to avoid any possible confusion? > > Thanks a lot for helping me see it more clearly. > > Joseph. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to satchmo-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to satchmo-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
