Product Options Not Available on Product Option Selection List More ...

In a previous post a customer did not understand why options (defined in the settings) were missing from the list of options on the product page.
It seems that there are constraints on options that can only be used once (color for example).
In the documentation these constraints do not appear anywhere.
What are they?
Thanks
Regards
Claude

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