An internal reference for safe variation re-imports
Variation exports now carry a hidden Everlyst reference, _evl_ref, on every row. On re-import it reconnects each spreadsheet row to the exact variation it came from - so a reordered or re-sorted sheet can't quietly attach your edits to the wrong offering.
The hard part of a round-trip is matching rows back
Exporting variations is easy. The dangerous part is the return trip: figuring out which row in your edited sheet belongs to which live variation. Sort the file, paste a block, or shuffle a few rows, and a naive importer can line your edits up against the wrong offerings without ever noticing.
A reference that travels with the row
Every variation export now includes a hidden Everlyst reference - _evl_ref - on each row. When you bring the file back, Everlyst uses that reference to reconnect each row to the exact variation it came from, no matter how the sheet has been sorted or rearranged in between.
Why it’s a safety feature, not plumbing
This isn’t a tidy column for its own sake. It’s the thing standing between “I edited the medium” and “I accidentally edited the small because the rows moved.” For variation editing, where a mismatch means changing the wrong price or wiping the wrong option, getting the match right is the whole game.