How to handle products with variants of variants?

[Dochr]

Laravel version: 6.20.35
Aimeos version: 2021.07.6
Php version: 7.4.9
environment: Win

I was looking for a solution on this forum, but did not find an answer.

I want to have several levels of product variants:
Parent: A shirt
Children: Different color versions of a shirt
Grandchildren: Different sizes of a particular color of a shirt

How should I do it?

So far I am able to have only one level:
Parent: A shirt
Children: Different colors and different sizes of a shirt

This is done by having a selection product with variants.
However, when I tried putting a selection product inside selection product, it would not display properly - I can only see children of a parent product, but not grandchildren.


Part of my shop.php file for product import:'

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'controller' => [
		'jobs'=> [
			'product' => [
				'import' => [
					'csv' => [
						'location' => './storage/csv_import',
						'skip-lines' => 1,
						'mapping' => [
							'item' => [
								0 => 'product.code', // product_id
								1 => 'product.label', // UTF-8 encoded text, also used as product name //product_name
								9 => 'product.type', // type of the product, e.g. "default" or "selection"
								3 => 'product.status', // enabled (1) or disabled (0) // in_stock
							],
							'text' => [
								7 => 'text.type', // e.g. "short" for short description //text_type
								2 => 'text.content', // UTF-8 encoded text //description
							],
							'price' => [
								6 => 'price.currencyid', // three letter ISO currency code // currency_id
							],
							'attribute' => [
								11 => 'product.lists.type', // For variant attributes "variant" otherwise "default"
								12 => 'attribute.type', // colour
								5 => 'attribute.code', // colour value
								13 => 'product.lists.type', // For variant attributes "variant"
								14 => 'attribute.type', // size
								4 => 'attribute.code', // size value
							],
							'product' => [
								10 => 'product.code', // for selection - variants separated by newline
							],
							'catalog' => [
								15 => 'catalog.code', // e.g. Unique category code 
								8 => 'catalog.lists.type', // e.g. "promotion" for top seller products //lists_type
							],

Example csv:

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product_id,product_name,description,in_stock,Fashion:size,fa_colours,currency_id,text_type,lists_type,product_type,product.code,product_lists_type,attribute_type,product_lists_type,attribute_type,catalog.code
1122,Red M shirt,Grandchild: Red M shirt,1,M,red,USD,short,default,default,,variant,color,variant,size,home
1133,Red L shirt,Grandchild: Red L shirt,1,L,red,USD,short,default,default,,variant,color,variant,size,home
2222,Blue M shirt,Grandchild: Blue M shirt,1,M,blue,USD,short,default,default,,variant,color,variant,size,home
2233,Blue L shirt,Grandchild: Blue L shirt,1,L,blue,USD,short,default,default,,variant,color,variant,size,home
11,Red shirt,Child: Red shirt,1,,,USD,short,default,select,"1122
1133",default,color,default,size,home
22,Blue Shirt,Child: Blue Shirt,1,,,USD,short,default,select,"2222
2233",default,color,default,size,home
1,Shirt,Parent shirt,1,,,USD,short,default,select,"11
22",default,color,default,size,home

[aimeos]

Each variant of your selection product must contain all variant attributes, i.e. color and size in your case.
You only need that two levels, not three.