Product overview with additional filter options on variant level
The filtering at the product level under "Catalog > Products" unfortunately only works at the master/parent product level. This option is not conducive for the following reason:
All of our products have variants and we maintain the images only at the variant level. The same applies to the product status active/inactive. Text, on the other hand, is always maintained at the master/parent product level.
This approach is deliberately chosen because variants can have different images or individual variants can be inactive.
It is now important for us to be able to locate the following at the variant level:
- Product active, has image, has NO text, has stock
- Product active, has NO image, has text, has stock
- Product active, has neither image nor text, has stock
- Product inactive, has image, has NO text, has stock
- Product inactive, has NO image, has text, has stock
- Product inactive, has neither image nor text, has stock
Olivier Utz
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Sophie Schwibach
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The general logic of Shopware that products only exist and are displayed on their model level (level 1) or on their smallest level (level 3, in our case SKU/size variant), but not on the level in between (level 2, in our case the color variant), makes things difficult for us and is not conducive to any compatibility with plugins, extensions, etc.
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Julie Thompson
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We can already choose how we want to show the listings in the storefront: either show the master product or show all variants individually. We now ran into the following problem:
Example: We sell clothes. One product is a shirt in red, blue and green and in the sizes S, M, L. We display only the master products on the listing page. For the master product, we chose a master image. All variants have different images that show the shirt in the correct color.
A customer now selects size M in the filter "size". Shopware now shows one variant in the listing that is red and is available in M, it shows the image of the red shirt. But the same shirt is also available in blue and green in size M. However, these variants are not visible in the filter results. This makes the customer think that the shirt is only available in size M in the color red.It would be nice if we had the chance to display only the master products when no filter is active but to show all individual variants as filter results.