Hello All, When adding and/or editing a product with it's combination of shared choices... BV2013

The shared choice combinations seem to be totally randomized when trying to edit the individualized content and pricing for these combinations.

Example:
Choices: "Blue","400 Piece"
Choices: "White","350 Piece"
Choices: "Green","450 Piece"
Choices: "Green","200 Piece"
Choices: "Green","100 Piece"
Choices: "Black","500 Piece"
Choices: "Red","350 Piece"

The above is just a sample of the ordering on this product edit page. This is requiring a great deal more time to edit each safely (meaning that we take care not to skip a combination and yet we can't get into a "groove" of editing all of the "Black" in each set size & then the "Red" in each set size, etc.) ... They are simply a random mess.

Note: there are some products which perfectly arrange the choices. All the Black, Blue, Green, Red, White (which is alpha sorted). However I have no idea why one product does this and another doesn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks,
Steve

Edited by user Friday, November 22, 2013 10:02:27 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Aaron,
It seems that the variations are sorted alphabetically (based on the product name field, i think) when they are created. It also seems that if you remove the individualized product name (like what happens when you use the "copy value to product variations" feature from the product's general options page), then the variations seem to have no specific sorting.

When we add variations, we can sort them (immediately after adding... we can sort the columns of combinations) however, this seems to have absolutely no effect on the ordering of the combinations once saved. Maybe, if that sorting could be used. ??

Another option may be to provide a "table" type view for the variation combinations that could be sorted by each column (as needed, like the one that I mentioned above except with editable fields). This would also allow for bulk changes (with slight variable info in each one) to be made without having to scroll through such a long page of "form" style product combinations. Currently I edit individual image file names for each color combination this way through a sql connection. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Steve