Variable Products and Filters Question

  • Example: We have a product (wine type) and three variations of that wine. Each variation is made from a different grape. We have a filter plugin which can grab categories/tags/attributes. We want to be able to create a filter by grape variety. We cannot assign a category or tag to a variation? Is there another way? Can we create an attribute to add to each variation (I don’t think it works that way)? Sadly because this synchronises with our till system we cannot change that variation structure. We have a plugin that already that shows variations as single products on the shopping page, but we need to be able to filter the grape varieties. Categories and tags only apply to parent products. Any ideas on how we can achieve this?

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  • Hi @martinabeldesign, when you create atributes for a specific product they are not available as a filter, but when you create product atributes and use those to generate variations then you’re able to filter products using those atributes. Since you’re already listing variations you should be able to achieve this.

    Would this be an option to what you’re trying to do?

    Thread Starter martinabeldesign

    (@martinabeldesign)

    Hi Ze,
    Thanks for the reply.
    We are using the WOOF WooCommerce Products Filter which I think can use Attributes, but it may not do so with our set up. Will have to test. The Attributes on the products at the moment aren’t listed in the default Products > Attributes section of the website because they come from the till…

    The issue is we synchronise our products with GoodTill. They have a sync plugin. So they are set up as a parent and (for example) 3 variations on the till. We then sync with WooCommerce and they appear on the site, the variations are already there. We haven’t used attributes to generate those variations. I think this is a problem. The attributes for the product on the till I think are generating those variations. If I try to generate new variations using product attributes on the site, then that won’t synchronise (I think) with the till, or will mess up the system. I’m guessing we might need a php dev to help with the grape varieties ??

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