SKU for variants way to long
 

Anyone know the answer to this.

Because of variants (colour & size) each variant is assigned it's own SKU - and because of the amount of options per size per colour some of the SKU's can get incredibly long (up to 12 digits) - is there anyway to truncuate the displayed SKU's down to the first 5 digits on emails, order history, invoices etc. as thats what we only ever use anyway?

Just use the smarty truncate feature, similar to the way the short description is truncated in the cart...

{$products[prod_num].product|truncate:30:"...":true}

Just do the same for whatever you want to shorten :)

K and the next question is then when adding variants even if i have set the parent SKU as just numbers i.e 01743 in the SKU of varaints it still prefixs the numbers with the word SKU - any idea on how to stop it doing that?

bump - anyone got any clue on this one?

It doesn't appear to do this in later unmodified versions (4.0.14 & up). The code that generates the SKU for the variants is in modules/Product_Options/func.php in func_rebuild_variants. At least in later versions there is a comment "Get unique SKU" just before the code that generates the SKU. You can tweak that code to do whatever you want.