validate attribute values

[RG-1]

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Stores > Product Attributes
2. Create new or edit any existing attribute (types: dropdown, swatches or multiple select)
3. Add few identical attribute values

Expected result

1. Error - it should not allow to create identical attribute values for "admin"

Actual result

1. No errors

[antboiko]

Hi @RG-1 , thanks for your inquiry. Could you please provide some specific use cases why attribute should not be saved if user added non-unique values to it?

Thanks,
Anton.

[RG-1]

Hello Anton,

Dropdown list and swatches are used in configurable products and layered navigation, so values should be precise. Otherwise, it may create confusion and wrong assignment. When dropdown is used just to create additional information, then it doesn't matter much.

Configurable products
Creating Product Configurations [Products > Catalog > Add product or Edit] allow to select same values and generate simple products from attribute like this:

It looks like this on front-end product page:

I tried to import products form csv file, similar to this:

sku	product_type	additional_attributes	configurable_variations
s1	simple	color=red
s2	simple	color=black
s3	simple	color=red
c	configurable		sku=s1,color=red|sku=s2,color=black|sku=s3,color=red

Produsts are imported, but only s1 and s2 are used in configuration, s3 is skipped (without any error).

Management
It is hard to manage attributes with a lot of values. Let's assume that we have about 100 values of a color attribute and there is a need to add 100 new colors. It is possible to check it manually, but it would not be the smart way.

Best

[antboiko]

Hi @RG-1 , sorry for the delayed response. I've created internal ticket MAGETWO-54780 to track this issue on our side.

Thanks,
Anton.

[andimov]

@RG-1
This issue has been fixed and delivered to mainline.

[elenleonova]

The issue has been delivered to 2.1.3 and 2.0.11