product title variants/characteristics

let's assume I have 3 products/shirts:

product name: shirt red
product name: shirt green
product name: shirt blue

The product title would be e.g. "shirt red".
This is fine, since I can make an accurate selection with Options tree list in backend, and I can add variants SIZE: M, L, XL.l

When I select SIZE M on product page, I would get title "shirt red: M"

Can we edit the ":"?

Now, I have also a characteristic COLOR: red, green, blue.
When I want to make use of the Filter, I guess I need to add the characteristic COLOR red.

But this will result in the following title "shirt red: M red" and I also get a dropdown field for COLOR with product page.
Since there is only the option "red" with dropdown, this would still be intuitive to use.

Do I have to go with a custom field on this one, or can we tweak it in another way?
Is there a better way when it comes to title with focus variants and characteristics?

When I just take the title "shirt", I can't make accurate selection with backend admin tree dropdowns.

2Hello,

when I follow your approach, I would have the following product names:

product name:

- shirt
- shirt
- shirt

This will cause an issue, when I want to select e.g. "shirt red" with backend tree lists, because of the missing COLOR postfix (see attached image). I guess what I actually need to do is add the COLOR with product name and have 1 main product for each COLOR. Makes most sense and would look like this:
product name:

- shirt red
- shirt blue
- shirt green

Now, I would add Variants SIZE (M, L, XL) with each product.

On the product page, I would - as an example - get the following product name after SIZE selection: "shirt red: M [product code]"
This would be perfect.

But what if I want to Filter products based on characteristic COLOR?

In order to use the Filter, I would need the Characteristic COLOR added with each product.
When I do so, I am getting an additional dropdown for COLOR, which would have only 1 Option (COLOR red).

It would still work for frontend users since there is only 1 color Option, but now I am getting the following title with product page: "shirt red: M red [product code]". As you can see, I would get the COLOR twice with the title.

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Title with product page "shirt red":

on load "shirt red [product code]"
after selection SIZE: "shirt red M [product code]"

If possible there should only be 1 dropdown (SIZE) and I would want to use Filter for COLOR, SIZE.

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ok...sorry

Thank you.
Now I know how to.

As you said, I will use a custom field for COLOR.
And good to know about the translation string.

I don't want to hack core either, unless really necessary.

Thought about it all morning.

I will keep the Characteristics COLOR and SIZE
Having both dropdowns isn't so bad after all, because they will follow the selection logic and I do like the auto generated title.

Having the COLOR twice in the title isn't perfect, but it will work fine and might even be a good idea (translation of characteristics).
The way you have it right now (title generation) is the most logical way to auto-generate the title.

Logistics will need a "speaking" title with logical order of characteristics, when processing the order.
This way they can double check the order (product code/speaking title).