An Insight Into Product Attributes In Magento 2 Store

Product Attributes In Magento 2 decide the way of using the attribute in the catalog its behavior and appearance on the shopping website, and in data transfer operations. The properties and labels associated with each attribute decide how it can be used, and its presence in the shopping website.

Properties This section includes basic and advanced attribute properties.
Labels The label identifies an attribute in the Admin and also in the storefront of each store view. If your store is the multi-lingual site, a different translated label for each language is recommended.
Storefront Properties The Storefront Properties decide how an attribute can be used in your store, its appearance, and behavior. You can specify if attributes are available for search, layered navigation, product comparisons, price rules, and sorting. For text attributes, you can use the WYSIWYG editor, and decide to use or not to use HTML tags in formatting the values.

To know how to use attributes while creating a product, read this article: Product Attributes In Magento 2 Catalog.

Product Attributes In Magento 2
Product Attributes Page In Magento 2

Property Descriptions

Property Description
Use in Search Set option to “Yes” to allow people to search the catalog based on the value of this attribute.

The following attributes display when Search is enabled:

Search Weight Set Search Weight from 1 to 10 to weight the search results.
Visible in Advanced Search Allows customers to enter search criteria through a form.
Comparable on Storefront Set option to “Yes” to include this attribute as a row in the Compare Products report.
Use In Layered Navigation (Multiple Select, Dropdown and Price input types) the attribute will be included as a filter in the “Shop By” section of the layered navigation. Options available:

No The attribute will not be used as a filter in the layered navigation.
Filterable (with results) Layered navigation includes only those filters for which comparable products can be found. The attribute value that already applies to all products shown in the list doesn’t display as an available filter. Attribute values with a count of no product matches will not on the available filters list.

The filtered products list includes only those that match the filter. The products list is updated only if the selected filter(s) change what is shown.

Filterable (no results) Layered navigation includes filters for all available attribute values and their product counts, including those without product matches. The value displays as a filter but is crossed out if the attribute value is a swatch.
Use In Search Results Layered Navigation To add the attribute to the layered navigation for search results, set option to “Yes.”
Position Decides the position of the attribute in layered navigation concerning other filterable attributes.
Use for Promo Rule Conditions To make the attribute available for use in price rules, set option to “Yes.”
Allow HTML Tags on Storefront (Text Area input types and Text Field) To unlock the ability to format the attribute value with HTML tags, set option to “Yes.”
Visible on Catalog Pages on Storefront (Simple and virtual products) To add the attribute to the Additional Information tab of the product page, set option to “Yes.”
Used in Product Listing Depends on the theme. To add the attribute to product summaries that display in catalog listings, set option to “Yes.”
Used for Sorting in Product Listing Depending on the theme, includes the attribute as a “Sort By” option for catalog listings.

An Insight Into Attributes In Magento 2 Store

On the previous articles, we described currencies, symbols and how to configure them in Magento 2 admin panel. In this series of Magento 2 articles, we will describe details of attributes, product attributes and attribute set, including attribute property descriptions and tutorial on create an attributes set and create a new attribute group.

What are Attributes In Magento 2 store?

Attributes in Magento 2 are pieces of information that display as forms, reports, product reviews, layered navigation, and email messages. Magento manage the information associated with products, customers, and product ratings using attributes. Some attributes are default in Magento system, store owners can create others to address specific needs.

To read more information about creating and managing product attributes, please read these articles:

An Insight Into Products Attributes In Magento 2 Store, including best practice for product attributes in Magento 2, how to add an attribute to a product, list of attribute input types, date time options in attributes.

A Complete Guideline On Attribute Sets In Magento 2 Store, including tutorial on creating an attribute set and creating a new attribute group.

If you want to read more about importing and exporting attributes, please read these chapters:

A Complete Guideline On Data Transfer In Magento 2, including a guideline on working with CSV files, data validation, a progress of import and export data in Magento 2, examples of data transfer, tutorial on importing and exporting configurable products.

Product attributes reference and Customer attribute reference.

Above is a complete manual about attributes in Magento 2 store. We hope that you can understand how do attributes work in default installation, how to configure everything related to attributes and manage attributes’ information. In the next article, we will describe further details about product attributes. Don’t forget to subscribe Magestandard to tracking all informative Magento 2 articles. See you in the next blog post.

 

How To Update Currency Rates In Magento 2

In the previous articles, we described currencies, symbols and how to configure them in Magento 2 admin panel. In this article, we will explain a tutorial on how to update currency rates in Magento 2 admin panel.

Store administrators can set the currency rates manually or import it into the store. To make sure that your store has the most current rates, you can schedule the currency rates to be updated automatically. Complete the Currency Rate Setup before importing currency rates to specify the currencies that you accept, and to create the import connection and schedule.

Update Currency Rates In Magento 2
Updating Currency Rates

To manually update a currency rate, follow these steps:

On the admin sidebar click Stores, under Currency select Currency Rates. Click the rate that you want to change and insert the new value for each currency. Click Save after completed.

To import currency rates, follow these steps:

On the admin sidebar click Stores, under Currency select Currency Rates. Change Import Service to the currency rate provider. The default provider is WebserviceX. Click Import

The Currency Rates list will display the updated rates. If the rates have changed since the last update, the old rate displays below for reference.

Click Save Currency Rates after completed, click the Cache Management Link and refresh caches.

Currency Rates In Magento 2
Refresh Invalid Caches

To import currency rates on schedule:

Enable Cron for your store. Complete the Currency Rate Setup to specify the currencies that you accept, and to create the import connection and schedule. Check the Currency Rates list to verify that the rates are imported on schedule. Then, wait for the duration of the frequency setting established for the schedule, and recheck the rates.

How To Customize Currency Symbols In Magento 2 Admin Panel

On the previous article, we described currencies and how to configure them in Magento 2 admin panel. As we said before, there are more than two hundred currencies around the world, so there are more than two hundred currency symbols for each one. For that reason, we have to customize the currency symbols to the correct primary currency that we want to the transaction. In this article, we will provide a tutorial on how to customize currency symbols in Magento 2 admin panel.

Manage Currency Symbols gives store owners the ability to edit the symbol attached with each currency that is accepted as payment in Magento 2 store.

Currency Symbols In magento 2
Currency Symbols

Follow these steps to customize currency symbols in Magento 2 admin panel

  1. On the admin sidebar, click Stores. Under Currency, click Currency Symbols.
  2. Enter a custom symbol for each currency you want to use, or mark the Use Standard checkbox to the right of each currency.
  3. Uncheck the Use Standard checkbox to override the default symbol, then enter the symbol that you want to use.

You cannot change the placement of the currency symbol from left to right.

  1. Click Save Currency Symbols and click the Cache Management link, refresh the cache.
Refresh Cache4

Above is a tutorial on how to customize currency symbols in Magento 2 admin panel, we hope that you can find useful information from this article. If you have another way to customize currency symbol, or have any question, feel free to leave a comment under our blog post or contact us directly. Please like and share this article if you think this tutorial is useful for Magento 2 platform users. And don’t forget to subscribe Magestandard to tracking our Magento 2 article. See you in the next blog post.

How To Configure Currency In Magento 2 Admin Panel

In the default installation of Magento 2, the scope of the base currency is set to global, which allows the base currency setting to the entire store hierarchy. By setting the scope to the website level, you can manage multiple base currencies.

Specify the currency you accept, and the currency you want to display for prices. In this picture, each website can have a different base currency

Configure Currency In Magento 2
Scope of Base Currency

Step 1: Choose the Accepted Currencies

  1. On the admin sidebar click Stores, under Settings click Configuration.
  2. Set Store View to the Store View where you want to apply the configuration
  3. Under General select Currency Setup.
  4. Open Currency Options tab and do these steps:
  • Uncheck all Use system value box
  • Set Base Currency to the main currency that you want to transaction.
  • Set Default Display Currency to the display pricing currency in store view
  • In Allowed Currencies, select all payment currencies in the store view including main currency.
  1. Click Close (X) and refresh cache.
  2. Do these step to define the scope of the base currency:
  • On the left of the panel under Catalog, select Catalog. Scroll down and open Price tab.
  • Set Catalog Price Scope to Global or Website.
Price in configure currency in magento 2
Price

Step 2: Configure the Import Connection

  1. Back to the top. Under General select Currency Setup.
  2. Open the WebserviceX tap.
  3. Enter the number of seconds of inactivity in the Connection Timeout in Seconds field to allow before the connection times out.
WebserviceX

Step 3: Configure the Scheduled Import Settings

  1. Open the Scheduled Import Settings tab
  2. Set Enable to “Yes” and do these steps:
  • Set Service to the rate provider. The default value is “Webservicex.”
  • Set Start Time to the hour, minute, and second to schedule the updating of rates.
  • Set the Frequency to one of the following: Daily, Monthly, Weekly
  • In the Error Email Recipient field, insert the email of the person who is to receive the email notification if an error occurs during the import process. Separate each email with a comma (,) to enter multiple email addresses.
  • Set Error Email Sender to the store contact that displays as the sender of the error notification.
  • Set Error Email Template to the error notification email template.
  1. Click Save after completed
  2. Refresh the cache in Cache Management

Step 4: Update the Currency Rates

The currency rates must be updated with the current values before they go into effect. To update the rates manually or to import the rates automatically, follow the instructions.