Variations - Drop Down Menu vs Selection Box

Selling on Amazon Listings and Variations
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Do any of you know why some variation items have drop down menu and others have a selection box?

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Basically because of a couple/few of different reasons from what I’ve seen.

  • The amount of children
  • The multiple coders writing up things
  • The category

Having seen some of the back-end code (XSD’s and MWS) to build my own MWS app, I noticed the use of different terms for the same Element (example: Merchant ID vs Seller ID) and different basic structure.

I tested once to see the # of children and how it affected the dropdpwn/selectionbox (as it is mostly the reason I’ve seen) but I don’t recall the amount it switched at.

With changes to the product pages I don’t even know what still holds true.

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So with our current debacle of having one item cleaved our product parent, the listing went from item box to drop down for all products.

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The amount of children

My observations support this.

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I agree and thats what I thought but with one item cleaved I would be reducing an item not adding, and it went from boxes to drop down selection. I am thinking it is a category node change.