Reply To: Color swatch doesn't show up in product grid

Hey,

but the products still need the “Farbname” attribute since those are the names of the color from the procut.

Just to be clear and sum up again:
All products will have 2 attributes based on colors.

One attribute is the actual color how it was named from the designers and is the color which needs to be sold on. So if it’s a darker white, it’s probably “offwhite”. Is it a greyish blue, it could be “smokey blue” or something. Those colors NEEDS to be displayed on the product single page in the dropdown to select which color you want to buy, like the size dropdown too. Since we got severeal blue colors for example, we can’t just name it blue. Because which blue is it then? Our merchants know the difference so it needs to be named as the actual color.
This one here is set as “Farbname” at the moment. As you see, there are plenty of colors. More than 80 different colors.

BUT
since there are so many colors, it would be ridiculous if we used all of them to filter the products. To simplify this, we chose 7 basic colors. Every of these 80 colors are set to a basic color.
smokey blue -> blue
dark blue -> blue
offwhite -> white
etc.

So these 7 basic colors (set as attribute “color” and are also defined and checked to show as swatch) are the one I want to be filtered on. If they choose red, I want to display all redish colors.
THIS WORKS! The filter option in the sidebar widget works fine!
I chose the layout/style of the product where under the product picture all colors are seen as a small swatch icon. You already got pictures on the top of this thread where I showed you this.
Here is the problem. I don’t know why but there is no swatch on the products but there are just words of the color. There’s also a picture earlier from me. So if the product got colors which are set to red, blue and white there is a word on the product which says “red, blue, white” but as word, not as swatch.
So the filter works fine and it knows what to show, but it shows the color as word. I want it to be shown as swatch.