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How to adjust increment-ids in Magento 2

How to adjust increment-ids in Magento 2

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Maybe almost every Magento developer has had the task to customize the increment-ids for orders or customers in Magento. Recap Magento 1 In Magento 1 you had to change the column increment_prefix  in the table eav_entity_store . I am sure there are modules out there that let you achieve that in convenient way. We have done that by using Setup-scripts most of the time. When a new store is created you need set the increment_prefix afterwards and do so for all entities that you…

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Creating Configurable Products

Creating Configurable Products

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Basically there are different ways for creating Configurable Products in Magento2 (like in Magento1). You can create it using the Admin Panel, using a Setup\InstallData or Setup\UpgradeData class or during a custom import. ADDING THE ATTRIBUTE Let’s assume we are creating our attribute using the Setup\UpgradeData class in our module. The code we might initially create could look something like the following: protected function addAttributeDiameter() { $this->eavSetup->addAttribute( ProductModel::ENTITY, ‘dev98_diameter’, [ ‘type’ => ‘int’, ‘backend’ => ”, ‘frontend’ => ”, ‘label’ =>…

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Thoughts about custom attributes and the way to manage them!

Thoughts about custom attributes and the way to manage them!

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To add or update an EAV attribute in Magento, it is necessary to add setup scripts to your code base. If you don’t handle your custom attributes in setup scripts, you are not able to install your project from scratch, which could cause a lot of problems. For example, it makes it harder to run unit- and integration tests. So lets assume that we are working in a team with 4 developers and everybody has a different task. Each task…

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Array does not exist in webapi

Array does not exist in webapi

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The Magento 2 webapi is very useful to publish entities to the world. One big advantages of the new webapi is the automatic generation of a swagger schema for RESTful API. If you prefer SOAP over REST you should also be happy to heat that Magento 2 will automatically generate all the WSDL stuff. Magento 2 analyses all the published classes/methods via PHP reflection. Any generated WSDL file contains a XSD with all the types used in the webservices. In…

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