Hi @SilverRainCraft. You’ve run into an issue that I’m not sure was foreseen when Square created and tested the options feature for auto-variation creation. I’m guessing that the case of using the same set of, in your example, colors twice did not come up when this was beta tested and I’ve not seen anyone else bring it up yet.
What is happening is that the options feature is assuming that you want every permutation of the items in both sets. In this specific case what you want are the combinations, which would automatically remove any duplicates. Permutations see green-blue as different from blue-green, while combinations consider them the same.
For now, so that you can get your store up and running, I’m going to suggest that you do not use options/variations for this. Instead, hopefully it will work for you to set up two modifier sets — one for Color1 (required) and one for Color2 (optional) for customers to specify their choices. Honestly, in my mind, using modifier sets will be much simpler and cleaner for customers to deal with, rather than having to scroll through 152 color variations. But I might be missing something you haven’t mentioned. If so, feel free to get me up to speed.
Chip A.
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