Object Bricks for Category-specific Attributes

[gutentag2012]

We are newly adopting Pimcore at the moment and are trying to find the best way to represent category-specific attributes on a product.
Based on the Pimcore courses it seems like Object Bricks are the recommended way to go, however it is not possible for us to have 1 Object Brick per category since some categories share the same attributes and Object Bricks need to have unique fields.

For example:
I have a Product Category that requires the attributes "tip shape" and "tip length"
Now another Product Category requires the attributes "tip shape" and "blade dimensions"

Working with object bricks I would have no other way than to split that up into 3 separate bricks "tip shape", "tip length", "blade dimensions" and usually products have way more category-specific attributes than that.
So we ended up creating over 100 object bricks which makes it pretty much impossible to find and assign the correct ones in the object brick field on a product.

Is there any way to improve this workflow or any other recommendation to go about this problem?

[markus-moser]

I would either copy the same attributes to multiple bricks and do some custom logic when reading the data for the output channels or think about using the classification store (https://pimcore.com/docs/platform/Pimcore/Objects/Object_Classes/Data_Types/Classification_Store/).

[gutentag2012]

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, Classification Stores are not supported for the GraphQL endpoints which is needed in my case.
As for the custom logic, I am not sure where to start with that since there might be quite a lot of Categories that overlap and creating such a logic for each would add quite a lot of complexity.

I will keep looking, but thank you for your answer. Maybe it would even be better to do custom endpoints for the Classification Stores instead of the GraphQL endpoints.

[filippo-groppi]

We have the same problem. We ended up creating a lot of object bricks. We've tried to use custom layouts on object bricks but with no success.