In Satchmo documentation, it says about ProductVariation: "Variations are all Products that are never displayed directly to a customer, but represent the actual product as you would have it on the shelf." (http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/product.html)
This is not the way Satchmo 0.9.2 behaves: in fact, it shows all existing product variations. Is this a bug in implementation or outdated docs? As a few people in this group noted previously, having a ConfigurableProduct with several variations results in a huge amount of variation records (e.g. a shampoo that comes in 10 bottle styles, 5 sizes, 6 colors, 10 cap/lid/dispenser types => 3000 ProductVariations). This makes Satchmo unusably slow. I've submitted a patch for admin section that speeds up variation creation, but the rest of the pages are also painfully slow with high number of product variations. Someone suggested using CustomProduct instead of ProductVariations. I've started to try this approach, and it seems to work. Now I am a little confused: CustomProduct seems to achieve the same goal as ProductVariations. They can both use Option Groups. Apart from the ability to have custom images for each Variation, what limitations of CustomProduct should I be aware of? Am I on the right track? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
