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How to Create Product Attribute in BuyNoir?

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Written by BuyNoir

Last updated: 2021-07-02

An Attribute is a specification or characteristics of a product for example Color, Size, Pattern are an attribute of T-Shirt. You can as create many attributes for a single product. Product Attribute plays a major factor in buying decision of the Customer. To Create BuyNoir Attributes, open the Admin Panel and then follow the below steps

Step 1:

Click on Catalog>>Attributes>>Add Attributes.

Step 2:

Enter Attribute code and select Attribute Type.

Attribute Code: - Enter Attribute Code to identify Attribute

Attribute Type: - There are various attribute types as available in BuyNoir such as Text, Text area, Price, Boolean, Select, Multi-select, DateTime, Date.

  • Text: - A single line text, it can be named, brand etc.

New attribute is showing in the Add Product Edit Page: -

New Attribute is Showing at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Text Area: - Text Area displays text paragraphs. It can be used for creating description kind of attributes in which you need to describe the products in detail.

“Textarea” Attribute at the Product Page: -

“Textarea” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Price: - This Attribute type is used to create price fields. There are predefined attributes like Price, Cost, Special Price, Special Price From, Special Price To available in Buynoir.


    when you will set the special price for a product for a specific date, then your special price will be visible on the front end as per the set date. Here, I have set a special price from 18-02-2019 to 25-02-2019.

“Price” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Boolean: - Display a drop-down list with the options “Yes” and” No”.

“Boolean” Attribute at the Product Page: -

“Boolean” Attribute at the Front End (Website View): -

  • Select: - Only one option can be selected at a time from the drop-down list when you select Attribute type “Select”. Next, you need to provide options for drop down under the Options section.

“Select” Attribute at the Product Page: -

“Select” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Multiselect: - More than one option can be selected at a time from the drop-down list. Select Attribute Type “Multiselect” then click on “Add Option” and enter the option value.

“Multiselect” Attribute at the Product Page: -

To select the multiple options, hold the Ctrl key and down and click each option which you want to set

“Multiselect” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Datetime: - You can select date and time from the popup calendar.

“DateTime” Attribute at the Product Page: -

“DateTime” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Date: - Date can be selected from the calendar.

“Date” Attribute at the Product Page: - select date from the calendar

“Date” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

  • Image: - With the help of image attribute, you can add an addition image for a product like product logo, product instruction, etc.

“Image” Attribute at the Product Page: -

You can upload the image from the product page and you can also delete the uploaded image.

“Image” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

You can click on image to zoom the image

  • File: - With the help of File attribute type, you can upload file to more explain the product functionality.

“File” Attribute at the Product Page: -

You can upload the file from the product page and you can also delete the uploaded file.

“File” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

Customer can click on the arrow to download the file.

  • Checkbox: - With the help of checkbox attribute type, more than one option can be selected at a time from the checkbox.

“Checkbox” Attribute at the Product Page: -

Click each option which you want to set.

“Checkbox” Attribute at the Front End (Shop View): -

Note: - Only difference between multi-select and checkbox type attribute is, we can use multi-select for huge numbers option and checkbox for a few numbers of option.

Label

Click on Label, enter the value of Admin and in English

Validations

Click on Validations to set the Attribute Validation Properties.

  • Is Required: - When we set the value yes, then it will compulsory to enter the value in this attribute else not

  • Is Unique: - If you will set Yes then attribute value will be unique so that you cannot use the attribute value in another product. For example, you create the attribute “brand” in select attribute type and set the value puma, Adidas etc. then you can use the puma brand in only one product.

  • Input Validation: - To check the input validation of any data entered into a text area, set input validation. Following Input Validation can be used-
    • Number
    • Decimal
    • Email
    • URL

for example, if you set the attribute in email validation then the value should be in email format, else error will be displayed on the product page

Configuration

Click on Configuration and set the configuration of the attribute.

  • Value Per Locale: - Set Yes so that unique value will be used as per Locale else set No.
  • Value Per Channel: - Set Yes so that unique value will be used as per Channel else set No.
  • Use in Layered Navigation: - Set Yes so that Attribute can be used for Layered Navigation else No
  • Use To Create Configurable Product: - Set Yes so that Attribute can be used for creating the configurable product
  • Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: - Set Yes so that Attribute will be visible on the Product front end. (Set no to use the attribute in the configurable product)

After doing all the configuration, click Save Attribute to finally create the attribute.

By following the above steps, you can easily create a Product Attribute in BuyNoir.