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Brit Mansell
Brit Mansell

Reputation: 786

Is it possible to add multiple attribute values to a single attribute in a Magento product?

I have a basic product in Magento Enterprise (v1.11.2.0). I need to add 0 to many instruction sheets to this product. I know I could just hard code the links within a textbox and have them show on the page, but at some point, I'm going to need to access the value(s) for these attributes through the Magento API, so I need to break them out.

I know I could add multiple attributes to the set (ex. instruction-1, instruction-2, etc.), but that's not very clean or scalable.

I also know that I could add multiple "Custom Options", but something about that just doesn't seem right. If I come across a product that needs these custom options, that is really going to muddy up the user-facing view logic distinguishing between the two (actual custom options and faux custom options).

Ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1912

Answers (2)

Kalpesh
Kalpesh

Reputation: 5685

Create one attribute called instructions as varchar in eav_attribute. Save all the data of instruction-1, instruction-2, etc.. in instructions attribute in serialized form. So, next time when you show the instructions, just unserialize them and you will be good to go.

Or are you looking something different?

Upvotes: 1

Nate
Nate

Reputation: 578

It's possible depending on how much work you're willing to do. I recently built a module with a many-to-one relationship and based it off of how tier pricing works. I basically used a custom renderer looping through all the current values and inserting them into a table. Then I used javascript to insert and delete rows. If you copy the classes magento used for tier pricing, you shouldn't have too much of a problem.

Upvotes: 0

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