Version 2.80: Product variant attribute does not show text prompt in cart and order screen

To repro:

- create a specification attribute "color"
- add a product to the catalog and give it a variant
- on the variant, add a new product variation attribute and link it to the specification attribute "color"
- give the product variant attribute a text prompt a value ("door color" for example)
- give the new variant specification attribute some values ("white" and "green" for example)
- add another product variation attribute using the same specication attribute but with a different text prompt ("floor color" for example) but the same values as the previous variant specification attribute
- save the product
- in the shop, navigate to the the product and add it to the shoppping cart, choosing different values for the variation attribute (floor color white and door color green for example)
- go to the shopping cart. On the item, the specification attributes are shown and not the text prompts so you cannot see for which variation attribute a value was choosen. The item shows color: white and color: green.

Expected behaviour:

- the shopping cart shows the text prompt so the customer can see for which variation attribute which value was chosen (floor color: white and door color: green)

sjoere wrote:
Did you set a color Name in your attribute values? Check the way the Etnies shoes are handled in the store and admin demos where you can see your expected behavior.

Presume you wanted to write "product attribute" instead of "specification attribute"

There is no any bug. Text prompt field is used only on the product details page to ask a customer to enter/choose some value. But on the shopping cart he'll see an appropriate product attribute name (not text prompt).

Hi,

thanks for all the replies so far! From a usage point of view, I think the behaviour is still odd. Let me give you the real life example. In our shop, we sell office furniture. The case that lead to this bug report is that we have desks with a colour for the surface and a color for the legs. We use the same attribute (color) on the product variant but use the text prompt to distinguish the options:

- color: surface
- color: legs

The customer will choose the desired values (for example oak surface and black legs) but in the shopping cart, both options now appear as "color" so you can't see what the choosen option is relating to. We could create separate attributes (e.g. "leg color" and "surface color", but then we would end up with a ton of attributes! The text prompt seemed to be a nice option to re-use attributes.

Makes sense?

re: "ton of attributes"
Why does that matter?   You still need to set up each appropriate one on the Product Variant Attributes tab, so it's not any less effort.

Hi,

thanks for all the replies. It seems we abused the text prompt field so we're changing our product catalog to use the attributes as they're supposed to.