Limit on variations displayed in ‘Add Order’

  • Hi –

    I have a number of products each with 70 variations (choir and singing part). This works fine from the front end as students can select the choir they wish to join and their singing part.

    However, in the backend if I want to manually add a new order and I go to ‘Add Product’, I type in the product name and only see 15 of the 70 variations in the list.

    Is this a deliberate restriction? Or is there some way around this? We need to be able t process a number of orders manually and this will prove quite a problem for us.

    Thanks for your help.

    Barry

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  • Plugin Support RK a11n

    (@riaanknoetze)

    Could be related to the “PHP Max Input Vars” setting that your server has (you’ll get the number under **WooCommerce > System Status**). Ask your hosting provider to increase this.

    An roundabout way would also be to add products to a manual order by using the variable ID when searching.

    Thread Starter bazzjazz

    (@bazzjazz)

    Thanks for the reply, very helpful. I’ll check it out on the server.

    Thread Starter bazzjazz

    (@bazzjazz)

    hmmm, PHP Max Input Vars is set to 1000! so that shouldn’t be the problem.

    Problem is I have 14 products each with 70 variations, so keeping track of variation ID’s will be a pain, but perfectly doable if I can’t find another solution.

    I have a 36 variation product. I too can see only 15 variations at a time, but there are pagination arrows, eg ” << < 1 of 3 > >> ” to enable me to navigate to the next 15 in the list, and so on. Do you have these?

    Re PHP Max input vars, I have been searching for a while to see how many input vars one needs per variation, without finding any published value, but I reckon it could be around 30, so you may need to set more than 1000. However, first see if you have the pagination arrows.

    Thread Starter bazzjazz

    (@bazzjazz)

    Unfortunately no, no pagination arrows at all, only the scrollable dropdown.

    I’ll check further into the PHP Max Input var.

    tHanks!

    Here is a screenshot showing the pagination buttons that I can see in my admin product page:
    WooCommerce variation pagination buttons

    There is a duplicate set of pagination button off-screenshot at the bottom of the list of 15, in-line with the “Save changes” button.

    I have deactivated all other plugins and switched to Twenty Sixteen, so I’m confident that they are there by default.

    Consider deactivating your other plugins and switching to the default theme and test. It could be that one of your software elements is causing a conflict and preventing the variations pagination from showing.

    Thread Starter bazzjazz

    (@bazzjazz)

    Ok, I see where you are now. I do have those pagination options on that page. The problem I am having is when I create a new manual order (orders -> add new order), and when I add a product with variations to the order, I only see 15 of the 70 variations for each of these products.

    So the only way I can access them is if I search by the variable ID.

    Sorry, I see where you are now.

    I see 11 variations in my product search dropdown list. The actual number may depend on font size. However, the list is scrollable, so I can get at all 36 variations in my product. It didn’t work until I made sure each variation had a unique SKU. Please advise if your non-showing variations have unique SKUs.

    My setup is 2016, latest WP & WC, with no other plugins.

    Thread Starter bazzjazz

    (@bazzjazz)

    I checked that all the variations had unique SKU’s and they did, they were automatically assigned by Woocommerce when I set up the variations. BUT, I went to test again and suddenly I am seeing all 70 variations in the scrollable dropdown.

    They definitely weren’t there before as I rigorously checked, but now they are!

    No explanation, but I am assuming it is something I did inadvertently.

    Many thanks for your time and help.

    regards,

    Barry

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