Make galleries with identical attribute value text distinguishable

  • Resolved tobiaswinter

    (@tobiaswinter)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    I have attributes and values like this:

    • Lightingcolor: none / yellow / blue
    • Opening: none / left / right
    • Additional pocket: none / left / right
    • …

    When I build galleries to fill with the corresponding images, I end up having galleries like:

    • none – none – Gallery
    • none – none – none – Gallery
    • none – left – Gallery
    • none – none – left Gallery

    Since my attribute value names like “none” or “left” are used for more than one attribute, It is hard to distinguish the galleries. May be add the attribute name to the gallery header? May be smaller text or gray. Like:

    • lightingcolor: none – Additional pocket: none – Gallery
    • lightingcolor: none – Opening: none – Additional pocket: none – Gallery
    • Opening: none – Additional pocket: left – Gallery
    • lightingcolor: none – Opening: none – Additional pocket: left Gallery
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  • Plugin Author RosendoLabs

    (@drosendo)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi,

    I totally understand the confusion! When multiple attributes share the same values (like “none” or “left”), it can definitely get hard to track which gallery belongs to which combination.

    The good news is that we’ve already addressed this in the upcoming Version 6. I’ve attached a sneak peek screenshot of the new UI for you.

    As you can see, we are adding clear attribute labels above each value (e.g., COLOR: Beige, SIZE: Large), which will make it much easier to distinguish between your galleries at a glance.

    Stay tuned for the update!

    Thread Starter tobiaswinter

    (@tobiaswinter)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    This looks promising! Thanks, I’m looking forward to v6. Already read about it in the admin UI teaser.

    Thread Starter tobiaswinter

    (@tobiaswinter)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    I’m currently struggling getting the SVI gallery to work as expected. Please confirm if there is a bug or if it should just work.

    I have this variant configuration. Please note those variants are not global attributes.

    I have this SVI Gallery:

    I hoped to see this image in the product page gallery when for all options above “ohne” (none) is selected. But this doesn’t work. It works partly, for other SVI Galleries without “ohne” at all.

    When I change “rechts” (right) to “rechts_altered” I get a warning for any SVI Gallery that used “rechts”. However, when I change one of the “ohne” that is used by this SVI Gallery to “ohne_altered” I don’t get any warnings. This brings me to the conclusion that the SVI Gallery gets confused when I use the same options in non-global attributs. If this is the case, is there a way to fix it?

    Plugin Author RosendoLabs

    (@drosendo)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Thank you for the detailed example.

    What you are seeing is a limitation of SVI v5 rather than a setup mistake on your side.

    SVI v5 works best with WooCommerce global attributes created under Products > Attributes. In that setup, WooCommerce creates proper taxonomy terms with unique slugs, and SVI can match galleries much more reliably.

    With custom product-level attributes (non-global attributes), the v5.x logic is more limited because it relies on the stored attribute values/slug-like identifiers from the product itself. If multiple attributes reuse the same text value such as “none”, “left”, or “right”, v5 can struggle to distinguish which gallery belongs to which attribute combination. So in cases like yours, it may not behave as expected even though the configuration looks correct.

    This is one of the reasons I redesigned the gallery data model in v6. In v6 the gallery system was rebuilt to be much more universal and better at handling real-world combinations, including cases that were difficult or ambiguous in v5.

    So the short answer is:

    • In v5, this behavior can happen with non-global/custom attributes and identical value labels.
    • It is not simply user error.
    • For the most reliable behavior in v5, global WooCommerce attributes are recommended.
    • v6 was specifically improved to address this kind of limitation.

    Cheers,
    David

    Thread Starter tobiaswinter

    (@tobiaswinter)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks for the clear explanation.

    I don’t want to use global attributes in this case, so I renamed the “nones” to be specific like “no pocket”, “no opening” and so on. Since I couldn’t fix the then-broken about 30 Galleries I edited directly in the Database. After having only unique values, everything is working as expected!

    I’ve got another feature request using “or” to combine multiple possible values, that would reduce the number of about 30 Galleries in my case. But I’ll create a new topic for that – hoping you’ve that aready covered in v6 😉

    Plugin Author RosendoLabs

    (@drosendo)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    hi,

    Thanks for the feedback.

    regarding the “or” feature I did think about it in the beginning but it’s very edge case scenario so I did not add such a feature. But I will study about it again.

    cheers

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