Managing varients

I have resently ditched Virtuemart and giving your product a go, so far thumbs up for a product that is much easier to use.

I do have one problem so far. Is it possible to prevent varients from automatically producing all possible combinations?

The suituation is I'm selling shoes and have 3 charactertics: size, colour and heel size, with about 20 different sizes, 10 colours and about 8 heel sizes. Not all of the combinations of characteristics are relevent to each shoe due to different brands and ranges etc. When I go to manage varients it auto populate about 1600 possible combinations but I often only need 10. So is it possible to stop Hikashop from automatically creating all possible combinations?

I have tried deleting all combinations bar say 10 but it deletes all combinations so I'm back to where I started. There also seems to be a bug in this area, if I unpublish any varients they still remain in the drop box of the product page, the only way to stop that behaviour is to delete the varient.

Many thanks for a great product, hope you can shine some light on my problem.

If you want to change the behavior of the system so that it doesn't generate all the variants, you should change the line:
if(!empty($new) || (empty($results)&&!empty($main_ids))){

to :

if(false){

in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/product.php
There is no option for that for now.

That's indeed the normal behavior, when you unpublish a variant, it stays displayed, but it's not buyable. It's only when you delete it that it won't display.

How can the unpublish varient not showing on front-end?

I finally deleted those unpublish varient lines. Thanks.

May I know how to remove the button "Choose options" under the product name on category page? Thanks.

In the hikashop options of your menus/modules (you can access them via the menu Display->Content modules/menus) you will find the option "Add to cart button display" that you can turn off for that.

got it. Thank you.