Magento – Attribute Sets

A Magento Attribute Set is a collection of attributes, customized to fit certain types of products. All Attribute Sets must contain all of Magento’s System Attributes, but you can customize them to include different combinations of Simple Attributes. For example, if you sell several different kinds of T-shirts in your site, you would want to create a “T-shirts” Attribute Set, which includes the Simple Attributes commonly shared by all of your T-shirts. This may include color, size, gender, and brand. Once you have created each of these Simple Attributes (refer back to the previous section for more details), you can associate them to an Attribute Set. A product is then associated to an Attribute Set during product creation, and the Attribute Set’s Simple Attributes will appear in the New Product page so that you can set the various values.

Magento Attribute Sets Basic Operations (Add, Edit, Delete)

In Magento product attributes section you can find some options similar to Magento Add Product, Edit product, Delete Product operations which you can perform with the help of Product attributes toolbar:

Or context menu:

You can perform the following Basic Operations:

1. Add new product attribute set calls blank Edit attribute set form, which is used to create a new attribute set. Description see below.
2. To edit attribute set you can double click on it or use edit attribute set button. It calls edit attribute set form for highlighted attribute set. You can specify attribute set name and sort order.
   
3. You can delete selected attribute set from your store. Pay attention that you won’t be able to undo delete from store operation unless you’ve made d-base backup. Also you cannot delete default Attribute sets as they are defined by default by Magento.
4. To adjust columns width use icon or enable column auto width option.