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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Product attributes


An attribute is a property of a product, for example, the product color, the size, or the description. You can add, edit, or remove product attributes in Magento to customize your products. In order to manage the product attributes, you should go to the STORES | AttributesProduct section in the Magento admin panel.

In the following screenshot, you can see the location of the menu item for the  Product attributes section:

The Product attributes are part of the core of the catalog. Even though you can manage the attributes, you can't remove the system attributes that are included in Magento by default. In order to see a list of system attributes, you should filter the grid by System: Yes, as seen in the following screenshot:

As you can see, there are 43 system attributes in Magento. You must be familiar with most of them since these attributes are part of the New Product form field that we reviewed in the last chapter.

Creating a product attribute

You can create custom...