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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 24/09/2024 10:54:37

Hi guys,

I am using DW10 for the first time and I find it hard to get used to the new structure of the interface, so please bear with me.

I am trying to set up a product with variants, nothing fancy. However, I cannot find any way of turning variant combinations into products (I have separate, product numbers, descriptions, and assets for each Variant). I could assign assets to variants but it seems that's pretty much all I could do.

I have also noticed the absence of "create" folders while browsing for assets. This was annoying in DW9 but it may have been solved at some point (I may remember it wrong).

The DW10 documentation does not say much about setting up Variants: https://doc.dynamicweb.dev/manual/dynamicweb10/products/managing-products/index.html?tabs=variants.

I have also noticed that the "Media with Thumbnails" paragraph lacks any way of sliding through thumbnails. Is this something I am missing or it was by design (of course, this is a Swift related issue).

Thank you,
Adrian


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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 24/09/2024 15:19:53
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Hi Adrian

Turning variants into products happen automatically - DW10 does not support "simple" variants like DW9

We are aware the flow of creating variants starting with the variant groups is not optimal and we are currently working on UX reqork to make it more intutitive.

So here are the explanation:

First you have to add variant groups to the product:

Once you have create those, you can create the actual variants - the variant combinations:

When you click "Save combinations" the variant products are also created.

Can you elaborate on "Media with Thumbnails" ? I do not quite understand that question.

BR Nicolai

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 24/09/2024 15:49:50
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Hi Nicolai,

Thank you for the details.

I got as far as defining the combinations but after defining the combinations I could not find any way to adjust ProductNumbers or other details of the Variants.

As for Media with Thumbnails, I am talking about the "Gallery" column:

 

And this result:

I would expect that the thumbnails will turn into a vertical slider but instead, they take all the space needed to be listed completely.
Maybe I am missing something.

In the backend, on the product, I see the thumbnails like this: