'Has one or more variants selected from' type of restriction

Create a constraint between 2 variants

Creating this type of restriction between 2 or more variants is the most commonly used method and covers most of the requirements that a product configurator may have. You can hide or unhide a material (color), 3D part or 3D model depending on the type of the option set and how each variant is defined.

Ways of defining a variant

NOTE: A restriction will affect the variant depending on how the variant is defined, as indicated in the image above.

Let's take the ring configurator example below:

Ring with metal and stone variants selection

We have a ring configurator made from 2 'Thumbnail' blocks: Metal and Stone. We already learned how you can add a Thumbnail option set in another chapter. For Metal we have 3 variants and for Stone we have 4 variants. I want to create a restriction when I select White gold (the first metal variant) to have only 2 stone options: white and black diamond. How will I proceed?

First, we access the "Create Options" tab and see the 2 added Metal and Stone option set blocks.

Metal and Stone 'Thumbnail' option sets

In this case, we have 2 sets of Thumbnail options and the constraint effect will be in terms of which materials (color) will be visible and which will not. Since, I mentioned that my restriction will be on Stone depending on which Metal I select, I will need to click on the Stone option block and apply restrictions to the amethyst and sapphire variants or whatever variants you need to restrict depending on the configurator.

Apply restriction for 'amethyst' and 'sapphire' variants in relation with 'white' gold variant

We click on the "chain" button on each of the variants to apply the restriction regarding "white" gold.

Add restriction - version 1

Or

Add restriction - version 2

The above conditions are the same. Once I have applied the restrictions for the 2 variants, I should have each of the "chain" icon buttons marked with an asterisk, as shown below.

Variants with restriction applied

To save the newly added restriction, we first click "Save" and then "Preview" for a quick test.

Effect of restriction

If we select the "White" gold, there will only be 2 diamonds, White and Black. If we change the gold to yellow, we will have all 4 diamonds available.