‘create variations from all attributes’ not working properly

Hi @oasiswork07 – How many variations should be created?

Can you send us a screenshot of the ‘Attributes’ tab (with the attributes expanded)?

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– Joey

How many variations should be created?
Reply:
there are plenty :/

Can you send us a screenshot of the ‘Attributes’ tab (with the attributes expanded)?
Reply:
Expanded Attributes: https://ibb.co/xm1gxNr
Variations created: https://ibb.co/XtvpCPW [notice they are duplicated]

Hi @oasiswork07 – Thanks for those screenshots!

You’ll notice when you click the ‘Create variations from all attributes’ option that the notice says: “Are you sure you want to link all variations? This will create a new variation for each and every possible combination of variation attributes (max 50 per run).”

Considering you should have ~5,700 variations, you’ll need to process that several times. Each variation will need to be updated with it’s respective prices, etc.

There are two options that may help:

1. Use a plugin that helps with this process: https://www.storeapps.org/product/bulk-variations-manager/

2. Instead of variations, use Product Add-Ons for almost all of these different attributes: https://www.woocommerce.com/products/product-add-ons/

Both of these options may help. In my opinion, using Product Add-Ons may help immensely in managing these options. You can create a pre-sales ticket for Product Add-Ons if you have any further questions about how it works: https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/

As for why the variations are duplicated, it’s really hard to say. That’s certainly not expected, though I’m not able to duplicate this locally. I would suggest assuming this was a small hiccup, unless you see it happen again.

Thanks!
– Joey

Thank you for the suggestions. ??
Regarding duplications it did happen every time I created the variations after bulk deleting them.
Although, this is happening only for products where we have many attributes.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by oasiswork07.

Any solution for this?

Hi @oasiswork07 – Sorry for the delay. It’s possible this could be a performance issue, though I’m unable to duplicate locally with the same attributes.

Can you send us your SSR? You can find that at: WP Dashboard > WooCommerce > Status > ‘Get system report’
If you paste that there, the links are set to nofollow, so they aren’t logged by search engines.

– Joey

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Hello,
Any update on this?

Please share updates on this.

Hi @oasiswork07 ,

Sorry for the delayed response. I’m looking over the list and just wanted to confirm: are you certain there are duplicates being generated? The reason I ask is because the variations list shows a truncated version of the attribute values, so I’m not sure if what looks like a duplicate is actually duplicated.

For example, these two variations:

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/5DfEMh

While they look like they could be duplicates, the Graphics value where I see AMD Radeon Pr could be any of these:

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/9X9e0J

Have you confirmed if any of those are actual duplicates? If so, which ones?

Hi,
Just to confirm I created all the variation linked to 1 processor attribute ‘1.4GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor\, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz’
& exported the CSV file.

If you calculate the attributes: https://ibb.co/xm1gxNr
Then total variations that will be created with ‘1.4GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor\, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz’ are 1152[6x4x8x3x2x1x1x1=1152]

I checked the occurrence of ‘1.4GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor\, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz’ in CSV file it is 1198.
CSV File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gn03EuywqKx-Nh6HCc_-WND3arHbACBZ/view?usp=sharing
Find query snap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q_qp425LK-90JNJ7uamShOs1DtvebvbE/view?usp=sharing

Hey @oasiswork07 ,

I did some analysis on the CSV file, and I don’t see any item where an identical copy of all the attributes are on two separate lines.

To confirm what I’m seeing, I imported the main product (no variations) from the CSV file, and used the Create variations from all attributes option, running it enough times to create all possible variations from those attributes.

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/w2x1iw

This generated a total of 5 x 6 x 4 x 8 x 3 x 2 x 1 x 1 x 1 = 5,760 variations.

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/ZS0ycI

If you’re seeing a different number, there may be some residual variations, or another plugin is doing something odd with the variations as they’re being generated.

I did find that you can increase the number of variations being created at a time by setting the WC_MAX_LINKED_VARIATIONS constant. You can do this by setting the value in your child theme’s function.php file or via a plugin like Code Snippets with the following line of code:

define( 'WC_MAX_LINKED_VARIATIONS', 100 );

This will set it to generate 100 variations at a time. If you use this, though, be cautious not to generate so many that the site goes beyond your server limits. This page has more information about saving large amounts of data on your site.

Since I did make all those variations, I also exported them to a CSV, which you can download here.

Hope that helps!

Hey,
Thank you so much for sharing deep insights. ??

Regarding your suggestion to increase ‘WC_MAX_LINKED_VARIATIONS’ limit.

P1. For few product were attributes are less I’m able to create ~200 variations in one go.
P2. But for products with many attributes like above the maximum I can create is 50 variations in one go.

Q1. What causes this difference in P1 & P2?

Q2. If I set ‘WC_MAX_LINKED_VARIATIONS’ to suppose 100 then for P1 also I will have to run twice. :/

To be honest, I don’t see how WooCommerce can do that by default. It checks that limit each time it adds a variation, so if it’s going beyond it, then another plugin or other code outside the core WooCommerce is adding those.