Attributes in Articles

Hi,
My client ia a fashion retailer. They are looking to have 3-4 Attribute fields linked to an article.
These will be maily used for reporting purpose.
Any standard or non-standard way to do this.
Cheers
Barry

Hi Tobias,
I created Characteristics (Attributes) and assigned them to the Merchendise categories as Info only.
Now i have a generic artcile with Variants and the Info only characteristics assigned to it.
How can i assign the characteristic values of the Info Characteristic to variants ??
eg.
Characteristic = Attribute 1, has characteriestic values 1A, 1B,1C
I have a article with 4 variants
AA0001
AA0002
AA0003
AA0004
I want to assign
AA0001 - 1A
AA0002 - 1B
AA0003 - 1C
AA0004 - 1B
Thanks for your help

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Welcome to the forum!
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thinking that because the update of work_cost is first on the list, the updated value of total cost would be correct. It seems however that the update of total cost happens first and then the work cost is been updated; not sure what the reason is for that and it happens no matter what the order is in the update statement.
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>
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