How to Master Catalog Workspace in Magento 2?

Are you using Magento 2? And you find it difficult to manage your online products? Don’t worry!! This article will provide you detail information about Product Catalog in Magento 2. After reading this, you will absolutely get the key to Catalog Workspace in Magento 2.

Where can you find Product Catalog?

From the backend mode in Magento 2, you can easily manage the Catalog as you want to. Firstly, you need to sign up with the admin account. Then click on Product category. There you can see three sub-categories: Inventory, Catalog and Categories. Pick up Catalog and you are in Magento 2 Catalog Workspace.

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What do you have in Catalog Workspace?

Once you are in the Catalog Workspace, you can see all of products listed on The Catalog grid. It allows you to control over every single products on the list: either edit the existing product or add a new one.

Workspace Control Tools

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  • Add product: If you want to create a new product, click on the button. The down arrow provide you with 6 types of product: Simple, Configurable, Group, Virtual, Bundle, and Downloadable Product. You can choose one of them for your new product.
  • Filters: Provide catalog search with multiple attributes
  • [Default] View: Show the current layout. You can simply choose another grid column view (if any is available) or make up a new one.
  • Columns: You can choose different attributes to show on the Catalog grid columns by marking the checkbox in the first column of each. The most important ones are ID, Name, Price, SKU,…
  • Actions: Product list actions offers three options: Delete, Change Status, and Update Attributes.

Columns control

  • Checkbox : You can choose the product one by one or choose all of them by selecting “Select All” option. There also is “Select all on this page” choice, which help you choose all products on the current page.
  • ID: A unique number for a single product.
  • Thumbnail: Show a small picture of product.
  • Name: Name of the product.
  • Type: Type of the product.
  • Attribute Set: Show which categories the product belongs to.
  • SKU: A unique code of product in inventory.
  • Quantity: Indicate the current number of product in stock.
  • Visibility: Show the place that a product can be seen in the catalog: Not Visible Individually/Catalog/Search/or Catalog, Search.
  • Price: Unit price of one product.
  • Action: Click “edit” to come to edit mode.

Now you definitely can master the Product Catalog on our Magento 2!

A Quick Overview of Products in Magento 2 Admin Panel (Part 1)

Magento 2 provides a great system to manage catalog, create catalog, category and other functions that directly relates to product management. This blog will provide a quick overview on product section of Magento 2 admin panel.

1.Products

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Please navigate to Admin => Sidebar => Products => Catalog.

Products section contains Catalog and Categories.

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The catalog presents a list of products on your store. You can create all product types here: simple product, configurable product, bundle product, grouped product, virtual product, and downloadable product.

2. Media

In each product edit page, admin can easily make a media gallery for the products, including both images and videos.
Here is an example of the media gallery on the product page:

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The media gallery shows multiple images, video and the swatches of that product. This part is placed under the main image and each thumbnail will display a variation of the product.

3. Categories

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Please navigate to Admin => Sidebar => Products => Categories.

The category is a good way to categorize the product catalog into a logic and suitable structure to navigate your store. The categories also make it easier for customers to shop and find items in your store.

For example, a fashion store that sells clothes for both men and women can be categorized into the following category: women, men and gear. In category women, there can be sub-categories: jackets, tees, hoodies, pants, shorts…

4. Attributes

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Attributes describe characteristics of product and decide the input control for the product. Basically, the product attributes define products, such as price, color, image, name, size, SKU, status, weight, feature… These attributes contribute to providing additional information on the product page.
Please navigate to Admin => sidebar => Stores => Attributes => Product.

Admin can easily create new attributes or add new attribute set for products in Magento 2.

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