I have 1 tee shirts that comes in 6 sizes and 70 colours, 360 products (with variants) for 1 tee shirt,
is there a way when searching in admin for the MAIN product to appear first in the long list.
and also
Does cs cart really have to bring in the variants colour image appended 6 times for each colour (per size) and add the numbers after the image so it creates 260 variant images on my server ?
In the Advanced search you can select the Catalog item in the Product type option, so only main variation will be displayed at the Search results page.
This type of storage is hidden because it hasn’t been updated or tested in literally years. I strongly advise against using this feature on a production site as the results can be unpredictable.