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Fixing issues after changing product attribute type from varchar to text

2017-01-19 Alexander Dite Comments 0 Comment

In some cases there is a need to change the backend type of a catalog product attribute from varchar to text. The purpose of this change is to get more than 255 characters space for a string value. In this article I will cover the situation when problems occur after changing the backend type of an attribute. The Problem If the backend type of an attribute is changed, e.g. via install/upgrade script, Magento does not automatically copy and clean up old values….

How to Create a Category Image Attribute in Magento 2

2016-12-28 Matthias Walter Comments 2 comments

Creating a custom Category Attribute with an image upload is quite common feature requirement in our shops. So this blog-post will be about the steps you have to take to create a custom category attribute with an image upload in Magento 2. The post turned out to be quite long, but I wanted to provide a complete description of all steps necessary. So stay with us if your interested 🙂 Our Module is called `Dev98_CategoryAttributes` and the image attribute will be called…

How to create attribute-options in Magento2

2016-12-21 Matthias Walter Comments 0 Comment

Recently we had to create Configurable Products in our Product Import. To create those products we had to make sure that all simple products are generated before the configurable products and that all the attribute options for our configurable attribute are available. So this post will focus on how to create those attribute options and a problem where we had to spend some time figuring out. Preface We need to create those attribute options before we call $this->magentoImporter->validateSource($dataSource); otherwise the…

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