Magento 2.x Feature Requests and Improvements

Feature request from RUjmiak, posted on GitHub Oct 19, 2016 Magento 2.1.2 Steps to reproduce Customer login Create cart (carts/mine) Add product to cart Create address (via put customers/me) Now I have address ID 109115 I checked available shipping for my address (V1/carts/mine/estimate-shipping-methods-by-address-id) and in response I get that flatrate is available. Expected result One simple call with which I can add shipping address ID to cart. Actual result You need to use POST V1/carts/mine/shipping-information where you cant use just ID { "addressInformation": { "shippingAddress": { "id": 109115, "customerAddressId": 109115 }, "shippingMethodCode": "flatrate", "shippingCarrierCode": "flatrate" } } result: Error 400 Shipping address is not set or when { "addressInformation": { "shippingAddress": { "customerAddressId": 109115 }, "shippingMethodCode": "flatrate", "shippingCarrierCode": "flatrate" } } result: Error 400 Shipping address is not set or when { "addressInformation": { "shippingAddress": { "id": 109115 }, "shippingMethodCode": "flatrate", "shippingCarrierCode": "flatrate" } } result: Error 400 Shipping address is not set OK lets to add address. Here is another funny part. You cant use address ID because it is not working (and we are just starting) { "addressInformation": { "shippingAddress": { "id": 109115, "region": "", "regionId": 0, "regionCode": "", "countryId": "SK", "street": [ "string" ], "telephone": "0902222", "postcode": "82100", "city": "Bratislava", "firstname": "My name", "lastname": "My last name", "customerAddressId": 109115, "customerId": 124252 }, "shippingMethodCode": "flatrate", "shippingCarrierCode": "flatrate" } } response Error 400: Unable to save shipping information. Please check input data. Here we can look on another weird thing - why right now we are using another address attribute name asi it is on customers/me calls? For example on customers/me call region is array, customer_id vs customerId, region_id vs regionId, country_id vs countryId... The right hand does not know what makes left... So how we can set saved address to cart? We cant... What we need to do is to get address from customers/me, then rewrite it to different structure in shipping-information call AND delete address ID. So call should look like { "addressInformation": { "shippingAddress": { "region": "", "regionId": 0, "regionCode": "", "countryId": "SK", "street": [ "string" ], "telephone": "0902222", "postcode": "82100", "city": "Bratislava", "firstname": "My name", "lastname": "My last name" }, "shippingMethodCode": "flatrate", "shippingCarrierCode": "flatrate" } } Vuala - this is working - but is this good? I think that this is bug and it should be done more simple. Thanks guys ... View more

Feature request from povesma, posted on GitHub Oct 23, 2016 It is very useful to know number of active products (status = 1) in the search categories API call. Currently we can see total number of all products (including disabled). Preconditions Magento 2.1.2 Steps to reproduce /rest/V1/categories?root_category_id=24 Expected result { "id": 24, "parent_id": 23, "name": "Best Sellers", "is_active": true, "position": 2, "level": 3, "product_count": 5, "active_product_count": 3, <---- add this one or similar, showing active products only "children_data": [] } Actual result { "id": 24, "parent_id": 23, "name": "Best Sellers", "is_active": true, "position": 2, "level": 3, "product_count": 5, <---- total product count only, which includes disabled products "children_data": [] } ... View more

Feature request from creative-resort, posted on GitHub Oct 25, 2016 Preconditions using a MySQL DB user with missing privilege e.g. "REFERENCES" Magento CE 2.1 Steps to reproduce start the setup process go to the database check / setup step Expected result would like to see which privilege is missing directly, resulting from the array_diff in setup/src/Magento/Setup/Validator/DbValidator.php DbValidator :: checkDatabasePrivileges() Actual result the general list of required privileges is shown, making it tedious to find out which one is missing. ... View more

Feature request from pareshe, posted on GitHub Nov 02, 2016 In checkout when click on Place order button take time around 13 seconds. And when Store > Configration > Sales > Sales Emails > General Settings > Asynchronous sending > Enable. Then it take 7 seconds. So it take to much time ,also send email from admin order view page. Also sending custom email using observer "checkout_onepage_controller_success_action". So email sending very slow. ... View more

Feature request from Taral-Patoliya, posted on GitHub Nov 03, 2016 I am working on a store where i need to import products on a daily basis and the number of products may go up to more then 1,90,000. The Store discount heavily depends on the customer groups which are around 8800 including the core ones in number. The Products are imported seamlessly, but when trying to reindex the Catalog Product Price index , it inserts 130 million records in catalog_product_index_price_final_idx table which takes huge time to complete. Also the customer groups does not have any alternative. because catalog price rules, and tier prices depend heavily on them. 130 million records are a very huge amount of data on a mysql installations. Note We have 15000 products as of now, but it is expected to increase to 1,90,000. so the number of records in catalog_product_index_price_final_idx table may got up to 1.65 billion records. Note: The infrastructure of the server is optimized for high performance, with SSD for storage and MySQL configured using percona db. ... View more

Feature request from schnappenberger, posted on GitHub Nov 09, 2016 if you delete an image a.jpg from a product A gallery and have another product B which uses a.jpg, then a.jpg will be deleted in file system and product B looses this image also. Preconditions Magento 2.1.2 PHP7 Apache 2 Mysql 5 Steps to reproduce Import some Products with the same image gallery Open a product in admin and delete an image, which is used in other products Have a look on the gallery of the other products Expected result Image relation is deleted from database, the image in filesystems stays if there are relations from other products Image in filesystem is only deleted if there are no other relations Actual result Image relation in database and in filesystem is deleted Other products which uses this image have now a relation to a non existing image file ... View more

Feature request from eric128, posted on GitHub Nov 02, 2016 Preconditions Magento 2.1.2, PHP 7.0.8, Mysql 5.7 Ubuntu Apache Steps to reproduce Create new category (A) with Anchor = Yes, then create some sub categories below it. Add a large of products to A and sub categories. In my case, the total count number of A more than 10000 products. Expected result Category can be updated without error Actual result Change category description and hit Save button It takes to long to process (more than 10 min) and get memory error. ... View more

In Magento 2 checkout page when customer chooses country the page makes an ajax call and refreshes shipping-methods section. Unfortunately I have not found any tutorials how to duplicate what is happening. I suggest Magento 2 should make a tutorial how it is done so developers can duplicate that process. - add custom filters to shipping-methods or payment. I have asked about that in Magento.stackexchange.com but like normally the checkout page seems to be the most mysterious part of the Magento 2 (no replies).  ... View more

 My questions are how to add dropdown to the shipping method section and if specific method has been selected (the one that developers have been thought about) make address field required to be filled? I have added image about what i am asking to the post.   History: In magento 1.X the developers just edited the phtml file that displayed the shipping method (can be found, when searched) but in magento 2.x uses html files where php can't be used.    Example: some countries uses post-offices where customers can get their orders. So the shop owners need possibility to add dropdown of post offices to the website. Also when they can select to pick up in post office or shop then why they need to add their address making the address field dependable with selected shipping method.   I have tired to solve it myself but I do not like none of the solutions that i have came up with: adding the selection field with jQuery (somehow adding it to the order) below shipping method its content depends on shipping method that is selected (main disadvantages are that it might decrease the speed and user has to scroll down to add post office) or writing completely new shipping module that contains this possibility (Magento updates might have added dependency or changed the overwritten files that might brake the website or make module unresponsive - writing new module means writing over many default files rising risks and making the default shipping method useless (main functionality in this kind  cms)).   I have tried to ask help Magento Community Forums (programming section) and Magento Stack Exchange - no response! Both of these websites contains a lot of questions about checkout page that are without no replies including many almost duplicate questions about the problem i am facing . Are they without answer because developers lack such knowledge or something else that is unclear.   The main issue is, that I find those functionalities described elementary in such cms and can not understand why they are not added. Why developers have not thought about that user group - Magento is used all over the globe and so should be the features that can be added without changing too much the original code?    The modules (extendability) not included to Magento should be dealing with only special requirements like slider or adding blocks (that has been well documented) or third party connection (Facebook, POS... ) ... But not functionalities like those where there is atleast entire country in need such features! Difficulty adding such features (that most developers can not manage (posts i have found in web while researching [example1]))  is not allowing the shop owners to began using Magento 2.   ... View more

It would be nice if there were two buttons in addition to the 2 already existing: one to go to the first page of the pagination of the datatable, and one to go to the last page. ... View more

Feature request from rbostan, posted on GitHub Oct 15, 2016 Preconditions Magento 2.1.2 Steps to reproduce No needs to reproduce Expected result If there is a column named 'Used For' for email templates, we can see our custom email templates more clear. Actual result No need. ... View more

Feature request from phoenix-bjoern, posted on GitHub Oct 06, 2016 As a developer you need to be able to retrieve categories by certain conditions e.g. to select categories by their parent ID or by their ID path. Currently this is only possible by using the categorie's resource model directly which is an unclean approach. The ProductRepositoryInterface provides a getList method which allows a developer to select products by using the SearchCriteriaInterface. For categories this should be possible in the same way. ... View more

Feature request from razbakov, posted on GitHub Oct 14, 2016 As Administrator I want to be able to upload files for each products in order to show link on frontend. Preconditions Magento 2.1 Steps to reproduce I created upgrade script to create attribute with this properties: 'type' => 'varchar', 'input' => 'file', 'label' => 'Datasheet', 'required' => false, 'visible_on_front' => true, 'backend' => 'My\Module\Model\Product\Attribute\Backend\Datasheet' Here is my backend model: <?php namespace My\Module\Model\Product\Attribute\Backend; use Magento\Framework\App\Filesystem\DirectoryList; class Datasheet extends \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Backend\AbstractBackend { const MEDIA_SUBFOLDER = 'datasheet'; protected $_uploaderFactory; protected $_filesystem; protected $_fileUploaderFactory; protected $_logger; /** * Construct * * @param \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger * @param \Magento\Framework\Filesystem $filesystem * @param \Magento\Framework\File\UploaderFactory $uploaderFactory */ public function __construct( \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger, \Magento\Framework\Filesystem $filesystem, \Magento\Framework\File\UploaderFactory $uploaderFactory ) { $this->_filesystem = $filesystem; $this->_uploaderFactory = $uploaderFactory; $this->_logger = $logger; } public function afterSave($object) { $attributeName = $this->getAttribute()->getName(); $fileName = $this->uploadFileAndGetName($attributeName, $this->_filesystem->getDirectoryWrite(DirectoryList::MEDIA)->getAbsolutePath(self::MEDIA_SUBFOLDER)); if ($fileName) { $object->setData($attributeName, $fileName); $this->getAttribute()->getEntity()->saveAttribute($object, $attributeName); } return $this; } public function uploadFileAndGetName($input, $destinationFolder) { try { $uploader = $this->_uploaderFactory->create(array('fileId' => 'product['.$input.']')); $uploader->setAllowedExtensions(['pdf']); $uploader->setAllowRenameFiles(true); $uploader->setFilesDispersion(true); $uploader->setAllowCreateFolders(true); $uploader->save($destinationFolder); return $uploader->getUploadedFileName(); } catch (\Exception $e) { if ($e->getCode() != \Magento\Framework\File\Uploader::TMP_NAME_EMPTY) { throw new \FrameworkException($e->getMessage()); } } return ''; } } Question on Stackoverflow: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/140347/show-value-of-product-attribute-of-type-file-in-magento2-backend# References: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37115850/how-to-add-custom-file-upload-function-in-magento-2 https://community.magento.com/t5/Programming-Questions/Product-custom-attribute-file-upload/td-p/29460 http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/95619/create-product-image-attribute-in-magento2 Expected result Attribute value is shown in backend. Actual result Attribute is shown in backend and saves value in database. Attribute value is not shown in backend. ... View more

Feature request from phoenix-bjoern, posted on GitHub Oct 06, 2016 As a developer who writes an order export for Magento2 you would expect that besides the getBillingAddress there would be also a getShippingAddress method. While all the [g/s]etShipping... methods exists in the Magento\Sales\Model\Order model (which is the actual implementation of the OrderInterface) those elementary shipping-address methods are not part of the API interface. Example: $order is declared as type Magento\Sales\Api\Data\OrderInterface. Practically the code "$order->getShippingAddress()" works but from a declarative view the method does not exist in the API and the implementation therefore is technically wrong. While it is understood that not all orders have a shipping address (virtual orders/goods) the majority of orders processed in ecommerce actually have a shipping address. So the shipping-address methods should become part of the OrderInterface like it is already the case for the billing-address methods. ... View more

Feature request from grasdaggel, posted on GitHub Oct 14, 2016 Preconditions Used composer to upgrade to 2.1.2 (broken M2 version) Used composer to downgrade to working 2.0.9 Steps to reproduce Used composer to upgrade to 2.1.2 (broken M2 version) Used composer to downgrade to working 2.0.9 deleted all temporary folders and did the setup:upgrade Expected result Everything is working again Actual result This output: Please upgrade your database: Run "bin/magento setup:upgrade" from the Magento root directory. The following modules are outdated: Magento_Theme schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Theme data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Customer schema: current version - 2.0.7, required version - 2.0.6 Magento_Customer data: current version - 2.0.7, required version - 2.0.6 Magento_Cms schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Cms data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Catalog schema: current version - 2.0.7, required version - 2.0.3 Magento_Catalog data: current version - 2.0.7, required version - 2.0.3 Magento_Search schema: current version - 2.0.4, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_Search data: current version - 2.0.4, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_Bundle schema: current version - 2.0.2, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_Bundle data: current version - 2.0.2, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_Downloadable schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Downloadable data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Sales schema: current version - 2.0.3, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_Sales data: current version - 2.0.3, required version - 2.0.1 Magento_GroupedProduct schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_GroupedProduct data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_CatalogRule schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_CatalogRule data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_SalesRule schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_SalesRule data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Swatches schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_Swatches data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_GiftMessage schema: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Magento_GiftMessage data: current version - 2.0.1, required version - 2.0.0 Of course we did bin/magento setup:upgrade several times now. ... View more

Feature request from paales, posted on GitHub Oct 14, 2016 Preconditions 2.1.2 Steps to reproduce Create a category/search page with a lot of configurable products with (image?) swatches Make sure the normal cache is loaded (loading another page) Load the category page. Expected result Page should load timely Actual result It seems underlying product's images are loaded as well. These images aren't used when rendering a category page. They are loaded here: https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/fb6faf5975fd7580eb407f089f8fbcacd5ee42f5/app/code/Magento/ConfigurableProduct/Helper/Data.php#L83 I'm seeing a huge performance boost when I'm disable that line, and it doesn't seem to degrade in functionality (it doesn't use those images). ... View more

Feature request from thaopw, posted on GitHub Oct 21, 2016 Preconditions Magento CE 2.1.x Steps to reproduce Declare a namespace (includes a space character or newline) like value in .xml files tags E.g: <argument name="productDataProvider" xsi:type="object"> Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\ProductDataProvider </argument> Expected result Similar declare (ignore newline, space in tags value) : <argument name="productDataProvider" xsi:type="object">Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\ProductDataProvider</argument> And initialize a class "Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\ProductDataProvider" in the constructor Actual result Magento System initialize an object have namespace like " Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\ProductDataProvider " and return an error below: Class Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\ProductDataProvider does not exist ... View more

As specified in #4832, when running the Cli application, if an exception comes up, the error doesn't get reported to the user. A suggestion from @adragus-inviqa would be a very useful tool for debugging permission issues, among other things:   "This one needs better handling of the exceptions thrown in \Magento\Framework\Console\Cli::doRun(). Something like   try { $exitCode = parent::doRun($input, $output); } catch (\Exception $e) { $output->writeln($e->getTraceAsString()); } This will get you the real exception."   Thanks,   Leonardo ... View more

Feature request from andidhouse, posted on GitHub Sep 21, 2016 Sry this is not a bug report but a recommendation. We are following magento development from releasing on - and struggle hard with all the bugs. What i realize is that lots of bugs are reported back meaning the magento team answers like "what version of xyz do you use" or "we cannot replicate this issue here" etc. This is very time consuming for us users and also for the magento team i guess so i would really strongly recommend magento to set up demo stores ov each version and each upgrade so we users can test the bugs on official installed versions. Also a recommendation for the server systems (Ubuntu/Debian), PHP, Nginx etc.) would be great so we users can use the same stable systems for our clients. Me and my company are a bit tired of all the major bugs at the moment with magento 2 because some bugs seem to here for over half a year and are still there. Pls magento take this not as an attack but just a try to speed up bug fixing as a bug reported on your systems need no further pingpong in a bug ticket regarding versions, installed os etc. etc. ... View more