fmAttributeSets, fmEditAttributeSet, fmAttribute, fmEditAttibuteGroup - Attributes Management Section
In Magento, product Attributes are quantifiable or descriptive
aspects of a product, from the color, to the manufacturer, to the SKU
number. There are two kinds of product attributes in Magento: Simple
Attributes and System Attributes. By default, Magento includes all the
necessary System Attributes. These cannot be deleted, and every product
must have each of these attributes. Therefore, all Attribute Sets must
include these attributes (more on Attribute sets in the next section).
These types of attributes include Name, Price, and SKU, without which a
product would not function. Simple Attributes, on the other hand, are
attributes created by the Store Owner. These will likely be more
specific for individual products, and therefore will not necessarily be
included in every Attribute set. For example, if you were to create an
attribute for color, with values of blue, green, yellow, etc., you may
want to apply this attribute to an Attribute Set for shirts, which you
sell in various colors, but you probably would not include it in an
Attribute Set for DVDs, for which color is not really an applicable
attribute. To create a Simple Attribute, navigate to Catalog >
Attributes > Manage Attributes, and click Add New Attribute in the
top right of the page.
Look at this screenshot to see how you can manage attributes in Magento with Store Manager:
An Attribute Set is a collection of attributes, customized to fit certain types of products. All Attribute Sets must contain all of Magento’s System Attributes, but you can customize them to include different combinations of Simple Attributes. For example, if you sell several different kinds of T-shirts in your site, you would want to create a “T-shirts” Attribute Set, which includes the Simple Attributes commonly shared by all of your T-shirts. This may include color, size, gender, and brand. Once you have created each of these Simple Attributes (refer back to the previous section for more details), you can associate them to an Attribute Set. A product is then associated to an Attribute Set during product creation, and the Attribute Set’s Simple Attributes will appear in the New Product page so that you can set the various values.
Attribute Sets Basic Operations (Add, Edit, Delete)
In product attributes section you can find some options similar to Basic product operations (add, edit, delete) which you can perform with the help of Product attributes toolbar:
Or context menu:
You can perform the following Basic Operations:
- Add new product attribute set
calls blank Edit attribute set form, which is used to create a new attribute set. Description see below. - To edit attribute set you can double click on it or use edit attribute set
button. It calls edit attribute set form for highlighted attribute set. You can specify attribute set name and sort order.
- You can delete selected attribute set from your store
. Pay attention that you won't be able to undo delete from store operation unless you've made d-base backup. Also you cannot delete default Attribute sets as they are defined by default by Magento. - To adjust columns width use
icon or enable column auto width option.
