Hide Variations that are not available

Howdy Pedro!

If I understand correctly, you have 2 attributes for your coffee: weight and ground. You want to offer a ground-type based on the coffee weight.

Instead of creating 1 variation and allowing “Any weight” and “Any ground”, you would specifically add all possible variations, but omit the ones that are not available. In this example, I’ve set up coffee in 250g, 500g and 1kg size. I offer to ground only the 250g and 500g options, the 1kg is sold only as ungrounded.

Have a look at this Variable product setup: https://d.pr/i/PthHm1
Here’s what 250g would look like: https://d.pr/i/4mkpHE
Here’s what 1kg would look like: https://d.pr/i/4Z3tzp

Does that seem like the solution you were looking for?

@eastofwest
Wow, thanks for the efforts.

The scenario you are describing is exactly what I already have.
What I want is, the second variation (the whole drop-down menu) NOT to show at all…

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why I want that:
first, it makes immediately clear, that there is no option at all (although I can have a preselected ‘unground’)
secondy, it does bloat my pdf invoice, since it is adding an extra line that is not needed.

For that I probably have to point out, that the standard ‘state’ of my coffee is ‘unground’/ whole beans, since most of the customers grind their coffee themselves.

hope I could explain.

Thanks again.
Regards
Pedro

Hi Pedro,
I suggest that you remove the Grind attribute from your products so that the only variation available is Weight.
You can do this in the Attribute tab of the product editor.

I hope that helps you to figure it out.
Feel free to get back to us if you have further questions.

@mouli
I am not sure I understand. Why would I want to remove the grind attribute? wouldnt this remove all ‘grind’ options for my 2nd level variations? thats not what I am looking for.

Again:
I have 1 product, with three 1st level variations (250g, 500g, 1000g),but only one of them is to be grinded (lets say there only exists a 500g that is grinded).
All other variations (250 g, 1000 g) can be purchased as whole beans only (not grinded) – and therefor would not need to display that line of variation.

If this is not possible at all with WooCommerce, than so be it… I just thought – why displaying a line with a 2nd level variation/attribute if it does not exist for that product…

Hey there,
Apologies for the misunderstanding.
I now understand that you want to hide the variation relating to Grind if there is only one option available for the selected Weight variation.
This would require some custom code since the Grind variation drop down will always show because there are Grind variations set up.

If you wanted to pursue the custom coding path, I suggest that a good place to start might be WooExperts.

Another suggestion would be to consider Gravity Forms Product Add-ons which enables the use of conditional add-ons, the display of which is conditional on the selection of another variation.
Note: The extension requires the installation of Gravity Forms
The downside is that because these are product add-ons, not variations, you cannot manage stock of the add-ons whereas variations lets you assign an SKU and manage stock per variation.

I hope that helps you to figure it out.
Feel free to get back to us if you have further questions.

@mouli
Thanks for getting back.
Good to know that is it simply not possible with the current WooCommerce version.

For me, it it a logical step, but I understand that most of the stores work the way it is right now…
I guess there are a lot products that are simple and natural in their first variation – think of a loaf of bread that you buy in the bakery which is naturally and in its basic version uncut, but if the customer wants it, the service is offered by request.. or there are even loafs of bread that are already cut, because a majority of the customers cut them anyways (but maybe dont have a professional cutter at home to do so)…

I wish this was an option in the future, maybe as a filter, do change that behavior.

that said, thanks for understanding and getting back.
my best regards and keep up the good work!
aovivo

Hi there,
Many thanks for your input which is most useful.
It would be great to have you add your ideas to the Ideas Board, which is where developers go to look for future plugin features and improvements.

Bye for now and good luck with it ??