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Product Attachment

Quick Start

Sometimes some additional data should be added to the file. Users often need to know the return policy, sizes table, etc. Some attachments may additionally impact the marketing campaign and overall engagement to buy products and so need to be closely investigated for marketing outcome

Product Attachment Extension was designed specially to handle this sort of tasks.

Installation

See Installation Guide for more install details.

How to use

Extension gives merchant an ability to show attachments assigned to products, categories or CMS pages with related icon and be easily downloaded.

Category Attachments Attachments view

Store Configuration

Configuration can be found in the General ➔ Product Attachment tab with one groups available:

General

  • Enable Module – Enables or disables module functionality.

Admin Management

All Product Attachments admin functionality is located under the Catalog ➔ Attachments tab menu group.

Extension consists of 2 main parts:

  • Attachment Icons
  • Product Attachments

Attachment Icons

Each product attachment has a icon, enhancing visual appeal and quickly indicating the file type. This must be configured beforehand.

To manage icons, go to Catalog ➔ Attachments ➔ Attachment Icons. A grid displaying all icons will appear, as shown in the image.

Product Attachments Icons Listing Attachment Icons Grid

There is a massive actions available for deleting a bunch of icons. Each icon can also be managed separately using the “Action” column as below:

Icon action

“Action” column

Select “Edit” option in order to go to icon edit form. Click on the “Add Icon” button in order to create a new icon. You’ll be redirected to the icon management form page after any of these actions performed:

Icon Form Icon Form

The following fields are available:

  • Label. Is used for readable name
  • File. Icon file
  • File Types. Supported icon types. Can be added as many ones as needed

Attachments

In order to configure attachments behaviour navigate to Catalog ➔ Attachments ➔ Attachments menu link. Grid will be displayed there with all the attachments listed as shown on the image:

Product Attachments Listing Attachments Grid

There is a massive actions available for deleting a bunch of items. Each of them can also be managed separately using the “Action” column as below:

Attachments Actions

“Action” column

Select “Edit” option in order to go to the attachment edit form. Click on the “Add Attachment” button in order to create a new one. You’ll be redirected to the product attachment management form page after any of these actions performed:

Attachment Form Attachment Form

Attachment management form consists of 2 main fieldsets:

  • General
  • Attach to foreign entities

General fieldset in turn has the following fields:

  • Label - The name displayed on the storefront.
  • Active - Determines whether the attachment is shown.
  • Type - Attachment type. Currently, 2 types are supported: file, link.
  • Icon - File icon (Select from Attachment Icons, which were described before).
  • Customer Groups - Groups of customers for attachment being shown to.
  • Store View - Assign attachment per store.
  • File - Shown in case file attachment type is chosen. Allows to upload a needed file. The SVG file extension is supported.
  • Url - A URL builder allowing to simply configure needed url. Is shown only for link attachment types.

Attach to foreign entities fieldset gives merchant an ability to simply assign attachment to various places without the need of going through numerous pages looking for assignment place.

It has the following settings:

  • Attach to Categories - Multiple categories select for assigning attachment to many categories simultaneously.

    Attach to Categories

  • Attach to Products - List of products with the ability to simply add new ones. Click on the Add button to add new ones:

    Attach to Products

    After the click modal window opens allowing to choose other products. Click Add once all needed products were chosen:

    Attach to Products Popup

  • Attach to Pages - Similar functionality as with products but allows to assign attachment to needed CMS pages.

    Attach to Pages

Widget

There is also a CMS Widget available for showing custom set of attachments in any place. Its configuration consists of the next options:

  • Label - Title for block with the group of attachments.

  • Show Icon - Determines whether to show attachments icons.

  • Show Filesize - Determines whether to show attachments files sizes.

  • Associated attachments - Allows to add attachments in convenient way.

    Associated attachments

    Click Add button to open modal with attachments listed

    Associated Attachments Popup

Analytics

A range of information is collected about every attachment like attachment downloads, number of attachments shown per page, etc. This statistics is then reflected in fancy way on the Reports ➔ Marketing ➔ Attachments Dashboard page:

Analytics One Analytics Two

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