Properties

This section describes the concepts of properties.

Overview

Generally, properties are used to extend products with miscellaneous data fields. Properties are attached to products with the help of property groups.

In particular properties are used to create products with variants, configurable products and filters or just to display generic information on a product. Additionally they can also be used to ask the shop customers to enter information for a product which is about to be ordered.

Types

There are three types of properties.

Text Field

The property’s value are plain text without any logic behind it.

Float Field

The property value must be a float.

Step Type

The step type is used for filtering. It can be chose from three different methods how the steps are created.

Automatic

The filter steps are calculate automatically. The base are the entered values of all products of a category for this property.

Fixed steps

On base of the entered number LFS builds automatically all steps from the minimal to the maximum value of all entered values on the products of a category for this property.

Manual steps

All steps, which are supposed to be displayed are entered manually.

Validators

Validators are used to validate customer inputs into property fields.

Decimal places

The amount of decimal places which are allowed.

Min

The minimum value of the field.

Max

The maximum value of the field.

Step

The valid steps from minimum to maximum value.

Example

• Min: 1
• Max: 3
• Steps: 0.5

Valid values which a shop customer could input into this field are: 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3.

Select Field

The property is displayed as a select box.

Select Field Properties

Display Price

If this is checked the price of the options is displayed beside the name within the select box.

Add Price

The price of the selected option of the property is added to the total price of a Configurable Product.

Select Field Options

Every single option for a Select Field Property has to be entered. These have following information:

• Position
• Name
• Price (optional)

The options are ordered by position, lower numbers are displayed first. The names are displayed within several selection fields. if Add Price is selected, the price is used to calculate the total price of a Configurable Product.

See Also

• Properties Management Interface
• Properties within the Product Management Interface
• How To Add a Product with Filters
• How To Add a Product with Variants
• Local properties