I'm just wondering if I'm getting this right, it's achieving the result I want but feels like overkill. I have lots of products that need drop downs like in the image below. However they all have different requirements for what the dropdown contains. So for each configurable product I create a unique attribute.
I then create an attribute set for each product based on the default attribute set but with the unique attribute I created for that product added. Is this correct?
I tried to create products with the default attribute set after adding the unique attribute to the default set but then when I created subsequent configurable products, I couldn't remove the previous attribute from the default set. So I was ending up with an increasing list of attributes in the default set that I would only use once.
The bottom image is of all the attribute sets for each individual product.
Appreciate any help.
UPDATE
Appreciate your comments Steve.
Okay, so I created a color attribute unique to an individual product. I added that to the default attribute set which is the kind of thing I think you were suggesting. That's okay when I create that configurable product but when I then try to create subsequent configurable products I get this...
but I don't need that attribute for the second product and I can't then remove that attribute from the default attribute set because I get this...
That is why i went down the road of creating a unique attribute set to go with the attribute. It seemed like a lot of duplication but I see no way round it. For each of my configurable products the configurable element is going to be unique rather than a general small, medium, large etc. They will generally not be reused. What do you do differently that allows you to get round what you suggest I'm doing wrong?
