I am creating a custom attribute for categories using this resource.
The attribute field "Tagline – Category Head" is shown fine in the backend, but when I type a value and save the category, the value is not saved (it stays blank). I also searched the database for any field named "tagline" and nothing came up.
Here is the code
Setup/InstallData.php (just the install function)
public function install(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context)
{
/** @var EavSetup $eavSetup */
$eavSetup = $this->eavSetupFactory->create(['setup' => $setup]);
/**
* Add attributes to the eav/attribute
*/
$eavSetup->addAttribute(
\Magento\Catalog\Model\Category::ENTITY, 'tagline1',
[
'type' => 'text',
'label' => 'Tagline - Category Head',
'input' => 'text',
'source' => '',
'visible_on_front' => true,
'required' => false,
'sort_order' => 100,
'global' => \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\ScopedAttributeInterface::SCOPE_STORE,
'group' => 'General Information',
]
);
}
view/adminhtml/ui_component/category_form.xml
<form xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Ui:etc/ui_configuration.xsd">
<fieldset name="taglines">
<argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Taglines</item>
<item name="collapsible" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">100</item>
</item>
</argument>
<field name="tagline1">
<argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">1</item>
<item name="dataType" xsi:type="string">string</item>
<item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">input</item>
<item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Tagline - Category Head</item>
</item>
</argument>
</field>
</fieldset>
</form>
Best Answer
Attribute type "Text" doesn't working as you need to change it as varchar.
You are not getting value in even database just because of it, check in eav_attribute as your attribute length is 0.