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Variants in eCommerce not working as expected

Jon Lennryd
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Hi all, I have created a variant in eCommerce which I call Colors. In that I created Red,Green,Blue. Very nice.
Secondly, I created a product, and assigned the Colors variant to it, all three colors. In the list of products, I now get a product with three variants below. All good.
But, and here is the big but, when I click one product-variant, and edit it's description, it's image or any of it's data, my changes will affect all three product-variants!
I expected the eCommerce to create three different variants of the product, as it is stored in database. (Three keys, productid,variantid,languageid would allow me to create variants of the same product, would it not?)

As I see it, it's a bug in the eCommerce system.. How do I work around it? I would not like to have three distinct products, as we have some nice grouping based on the color. We do need to have different images for each product And color. The product description should be the same however. I don't want to create a color set for each product, as it takes away the ease of use.

As a comparison, the language versions of the product is working as expected. I create a new language version of a product, and it ends up having the same productid, but with a different languageid. Neat and effective. Why is not variants working the same way?

Thank's in advance!


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Jon Lennryd
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Found it. It's a setting below advanced configuration, for some reason in Language. Select which fields should be available as variant-versions, and you can then create different product-variants.

Updating the eCom documentation would help. ;)

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