Creating Product Attributes Manually

You can use Attributes and Filter Categories as a useful method for a customer to refine the selection of products when viewing a traditional product category on your website.

Attributes appear under Filter Categories in the sidebar. An Attribute is an invisible category created only to be used in combination with a Filter Category. For instance, an attribute category of “12 in” would contain products with the attribute of “12 in.” When selecting that attribute under the Filter Category, the product selection on the page will filter to show only the products that have the “12 in” attribute. Therefore, Filter Categories do need to be created before creating Attributes.

You can view Attributes and Filter Categories on the image below.

Create an Attribute

Once you have created Filter Categories, you can create Attributes.

• Navigate to “Filter Categories” under the PIM section in the Portal.
• Find the Filter Category to which you would like to add attributes – this can be done by searching or taking a quick look through the filter categories.
• Click the Details icon.

As you can see, this is a new Filter Category without any attributes. To add any attributes to this Filter Category – click the "+” button and enter the attribute information.

• Fill in the “Add Attribute” form with the following information:
  • Code – the code entered should be unique. Also, keeping the same code format will help streamline this process (i.e., fg_color_silver, fg_color_red, fg_color_blue, etc.). Special characters may not be used when creating codes.
  • Name – this is what the customer will see on the commerce site.
• Click the "Add" button to create the new attribute.

As you can see, the attribute has been added to the Filter Category. Add as many attributes you would like to each Filter Category – just remember to create them in the appropriate Filter Category.

You can also create and edit attributes in the Products section of the PIM Portal using this same process.

• Navigate to “Products” under the PIM section in the Portal.
• Select the “Filter Categories” tab.
• Find the filter category to which you would like to add attributes – this can be done by searching or taking a quick look through the filter categories.
• Click on the Details icon.

Edit or delete an Attribute

• If you need to edit an attribute – select the edit icon, and you will be able to correct or update the attribute’s name.
• If you need to delete an attribute – select the trash icon, and the attribute will be deleted.