Actually, the products administration interface creates all possible OptionItems combinations for product variations. It may be annoying for some use cases, especially if not all possible variants are meant to be available. It is the case at my company where we imported massive amounts of products and variations from Prestashop to Community Store: when we used the panel to manage a product and saved, new variants were created silently.
This new option partially solves this issue by disabling by default all variants that do not already exist,
Actually, the products administration interface creates all possible OptionItems combinations for product variations. It may be annoying for some use cases, especially if not all possible variants are meant to be available. It is the case at my company where we imported massive amounts of products and variations from Prestashop to Community Store: when we used the panel to manage a product and saved, new variants were created silently.
This new option partially solves this issue by disabling by default all variants that do not already exist,