Magento cant associate simple to configurable product

Question

I created a configurable product and went to the associated products tab and used the quick create product feature to create a bunch of products based on my configurations. However non of these products appear in the list of associated products.

I noticed that the attributes I created don't even show up on the edit product page, on either the simple, or the configurable product.

I started first by creating 3 new attributes for a configurable product I want to add, I setup the options for each one and created a new attribute set based on default that included the new attributes I created.

When I create a new simple product or configurable product, you cannot see the attributes I have created. I have tried with the attributes in the general tab as well as on their own tab. But they are never visible when you try to edit the product.

I'm suspecting the reason I can't associate the products is due to this strange problem

I'm using 1.4.2 [edited to add my work flow/screen grabs]

• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/01-attirubte_set.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/02-create_configurable.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/03-setup_configurable.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/04-quick_create.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/05-associate_product.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/06-manage_products.png
• http://www.buggyonpurpose.com/magento/configurable_products/07-edit_product.png

Answer 1

It took a while but finally figured it out. When I created my attributes, in Attribute Properties where it says "Apply To:" I had only assigned it to configurable products, but you must also assign to simple products as well. (or just apply to all)

Keep in mind you will have to recreate your original configurable product before it will work.