How to link directly to a variante of the product

Hi,

Yes no problem.
When you access a product page, you have by default a URL like that:
/menu-item-alias/product/ID-alias.html
The id is the id of the main product.
If you replace that id by the id of the variant, you'll access the product with that variant preselected.

Hi,

Go in the menu System>Mass actions, create a new mass action with a filter on the product_parent_id equal to the ID of your product (you can find it on the products listing on the right side) and an action "display the results" with the product_id and other columns to identify the variants. When you click on the "process" button, you'll get a listing of the variants of that product with their ID.

Hi,

I suppose that it's because of the "Characteristics dynamic display" option you have activated in your HikaShop configuration.
That setting didn't exist when I answered previously with the URL solution:
www.hikashop.com/forum/product-category-...-product.html#285729
With that option activated, the variant pre-selection based on the id in the URL is not supported. That would require some development to support it.
In the mean time, I would recommend to turn off that option and it will work like before.

Hi,

None that I know of. The search is done on the products, not the variants.

Hi,

It makes it so the search plugin will search in the data of the variants, not just the data of the main products. If it finds a match in a variant, it will provide the URL of the main product of the variant. If the main product doesn't have a canonical URL and the URL can be generated dynamically, it will use the id of the variant instead of the id of the main product in the URL. This can allow the system to preselect the default variant selected when reaching the product page, overriding the default variant.
This might indeed be a solution if you're using the Joomla search mechanism.
Note however that this mechanism has been removed in Joomla 4 to have instead the "smart search", which doesn't have that capability.

Hi,

Yes, the URL should then be:
3dstudio.nl/webshop/product/291-v-ray
Note however that you have the "Characteristics dynamic display" setting turned on in the HikaShop configuration page. In that case, there is no pre selected variant when the page is displayed since the system will ask you to choose each characteristic one after the other.
So if you want this URL to display that variant 291 when this id is in the URL, you need to turn off that setting.