1. To create Attribute Groups and Attributes, right-click on the top level of the Attribute hierarchy where you want the group, and select Add Group.

It is good practice provide a concise name for the Attribute Group.

Attribute Groups are grayed out by default because they are only containers of actual Attributes and cannot have editable attributes.

2. To add an Attribute to the group, right-click in the group and select Add Attribute. As with Attribute Groups, it is good practice to provide a meaningful, concise name:

3. Select a “Type” for the Attribute - the options are:

• Date

• Image Library (to attach additional images)

• String

• Asset Library File (to attach a PDF manual or similar content)

• Decimal

• Page Library (to attach an FAQ page to a product)

• Integer

• File Upload (to display multi-media presentations like promotional videos)

• Boolean

• Content Library (to associate shared content between products which needs to be displayed on Product Detail page)

• HTML (allows you to add a piece of HTML code that executes on the front-end website when this product is displayed.  This can be used to simply present information, or it can be a script to provide tagging, data formatting etc. directly on the front-end Product Detail page )

• Enter a “Code” associated with this Attribute. This is implementation-specific and must have a custom code logic set up by your developers. The code is stored in the iAPPS database but can be relational to or pulled from third-party information. This could include a custom code to pull materials from a warehouse when the product is ordered or custom colors or images to display on the screen with the product details. See the Commerce Developer Manual for more information.

• “Faceted” allows the customer to use in a Faceted search on the front-end.

• “Searchable” allows the customer to search for this Attribute on the front-end. While generally good, this is not always desirable. Size, for example, might be too general for a meaningful search, so you would deselect the “Searchable” option.

• If “Personalization” is selected, it means an item can be personalized after purchase.

4. Click Save to save the Attribute. Next you can add values to it.

 

To add predefined values to an Attribute, follow these steps.

1. Click the Values tab on the Attributes container.
2. Right-click inside a row in the table and select Add Value.

In the example below, because the Size Attribute was defined as “Type = Integer”, the “Numerical” field lets you specify the size as an integer. Click the green plus-sign to save “Value”.

3. When you complete several Values you can select “Enable Website Display Sorting” in the top right to indicate the order the Values appear on the front-end.
4. Click Save.

Note:  The values in the attributes are not saved until the Save button on the bottom of the page is clicked. Save often. If you add or remove an attribute, the entire attribute section refreshes and you may lose un-saved values, unless they are default values set on Product Type Attributes.

Right-click a row in the Add a Facet container and select Add Facet Range. You might do this, for example, in order to display laptops with a range of screen sizes in only one or two categories, such as small (12-15”) or large size (16-18”).

1. Define a Range using the From and To fields
2. Enter text to appear on the front-end in the Display Link column.
3. Enter Alternate Text to provide hover text
4. Click the green plus-sign to save the range.

After adding a Facet Range, it will appear in the gird listing. You can then highlight and right-click a row to Add Facet Range, Edit Facet Range and Delete Facet Range.