Hi poppedweb,
Hello,
Just a few more questions:
1. Will the products have different URL's (seo purposes)?
2. Will it be possible to share features in feature variants. I for example want to define group item id's so that google will recognize it is an option variant. Will this be possible as this would save me a lot of time!
3. What will not be possible to edit with those variants? What limitations does it have? And how does the database structure change? (so that we can future proof our store).
4. What will the product id's be? For example, now I have created it as follows, you have one main product which is linked to other products by defining a costum option. The ID's for the products will be a mockup of the original ID. So if you have product A with ID 1, the ID of product A variant 2 would be 1_2. This made API calls for me a lot easier, how will this work in the next version?
5. What can we expect performance wise? So after I did this huge database purge I got my store like insanely fast, but this mainly was after deleting all the options regarding the google product categories. Cant this be stored in a seperate table so that the filtering won't be affected by this? Because my store has about 250 products and 100 of them have variants. This store is also in 6 languages. So in the feature table I allreayd have about 5000 entires of features (in all languages). But then the big hit comes in. The total amount of google product categories entries is over 23000. Which makes filtering a PAIN!!!
This will do for now
1. No, this is not planned. I'm not sure it can be achieved easily. What's the point in variations if the will be displayed at separate URL. I understand SEO purpose - but still don't understand why would one use variations in this case. usual separate products will do the trick.
2. Changing Features in variation products is not planned. When we will adapt variations for Data Feed & Google Export probably will add this feature.
I suppose you are talking about GTIN here?
3. We are working on detailed description and demo - I think it will be easier to take a look in real life.
4. Each variation will have own regular product id. Example parent product has id 1, variation A has id 2, variation B has id 3 etc.
5. No test were mades regarding performance yet. Most probably variations won't be took into account in filtering. Can not say anything certain regarding this at the moment.