Working with attribute sets
Magento has a flexible system to work with products. When you sell, for example, a board game or a computer, the specifications of each product are different. For a board game, information such as age and duration is relevant. For a computer, a lot of technical specifications are relevant, such as the CPU power, disc size, and so on.
To cover this, Magento 2 comes with a system called product templates, which can be compared with attribute sets in Magento 1.
A product template is a specification of product attributes that you can assign to products.
Getting ready
In the backend, we will use the pages Stores | Attributes | Product and Stores | Attributes | Attribute Set.
We will create a newproduct attribute and a new product template (such as an attribute set) that we can use in new products.
How to do it
In the following steps, we will create an extra product attribute that we can use in a product template:
- Navigate to Stores | Attributes | Product in the backend,...
