Visible and Global

Hi @loopforever!

Attribute% d global:
“1 or 0. Mapping screen labels this as” Is a global attribute? “”
What does it mean. Can you give an example?

A global attribute is one that can be used by multiple products. You can see more about them here.

Custom attributes are the ones that are only used for one product and are created on the product itself. You can read more about those here.

A 1 in this column means the attribute is global. 0 means it’s custom (i.e., not global).

What is the default value for “Attribute% d visible” and Attribute% d global?
1?
0?

There isn’t really a default value for either of these. It just depends on what you want.

The Attribute Visible column corresponds to the checkbox on the attribute settings that makes the attribute visible on the product page or not. You can see that checkbox in this screenshot.

I hope that was able to clear things up! Let us know if you have any further questions!

Thank you very much for your reply. I am grateful.
By default, I am curious about the following:
What exactly happens if the global attribute value is left blank in the csv file for the export-import situation? That is, it will not have a value of 0 or 1 and it will be empty.
Maybe you touched on this but I did not fully understand. I am sorry for this. Thank you for your understanding.

Hi @loopforever. Thanks for clarifying, I understand better what you mean now.

What exactly happens if the global attribute value is left blank in the csv file for the export-import situation? That is, it will not have a value of 0 or 1 and it will be empty.

The global attribute column is required. If you leave it blank, it could mess up the import of that product. There are safeguards built in to try and be as friendly to the user as possible with the import process, so the import might still work correctly even if a required column like this is left blank, but filling it out would be the safer bet.

Thinking about your previous question about the default value a bit more, I’d say it would probably be a safer bet to assume that an attribute is not global by default. So a 0 in this column.

On the other hand, most of the time you probably would want an attribute to be visible on the product page, so I’d say 1 would be a safe default value for the “Attribute visible” column.

Hi @loopforever

We’ve not heard back from you in a while, so I’m marking this thread as resolved. If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.