Admin Attributes – Hide Attributes and Other Fields in Product Edit Backend

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To make editing of products (and maybe also categories) for the shop owner easier, we would like to hide some unnecessary tabs and fields from some users in the admin backend.

This means: Hiding some attributes, but also tabs like "customer reviews", "cross-selling" etc.

How can this be done?

Best Answer

Set is_visible to 0 on the attribute and it won't show up in admin forms (product page and also the attribute management page).

You can do it via a SQL tool or programmatically in a setup script:

$installer->updateAttribute('catalog_product', $attribute_code, 'is_visible', '0');

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For the entities that are mapped to flat tables (like the orders) you have to use some events to manipulate the data.
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You can use sales_order_save_before to turn the array into a string.

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