Magento 2.x Feature Requests and Improvements

Feature request from seansan, posted on GitHub Mar 16, 2015 Please add option to avoid merging of cart on login of customer Many customers just do not understand Something like this https://github.com/jacquesbh/jbh_cartmerge http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5638173/how-do-i-stop-magento-merging-the-basket-on-login http://www.blog.magepsycho.com/clear-abandoned-cart-items-during-login-in-magento/ ... View more

Feature request from jason-neumann, posted on GitHub Mar 18, 2015 Currently credit memos don't store if their transaction was done online or offline. This can make it hard to tell what's happened to an order if there are multiple credit memo's applied to it. I suggest adding a column to sales_flat_creditmemo called online_refund that's a tinyint and is set to 1 if the refund is done online. This could then be added to the Credit Memo's main grid and when viewing an order and would enable quick filtering to see just the online or offline refunds. This has great benefits from the merchant standpoint because you can then easily reconcile refunds made through Paypal (or whoever your gateway is) and refunds made by cash or whatever other method. I would be willing to submit a pull request for the feature if it's something Magento is interested in. ... View more

Feature request from shirtsofholl, posted on GitHub Mar 26, 2015 Please add Magento store code to body class (as extra class) Now we have route + page-name cms-index-index cms-page-name I suggest to add webstore code (or even domain/url) and/or both cms-index-index cms-page-name store-en domain-com What does it solve? ability to set CSS per store view (so per language store-en) ability to set CSS per domain (so per domain-com) Maybe there is a better way. And there are ofcourse other methods to achieve someting like this - but it seems as a quick win ... ... View more

Feature request from Pakkapao, posted on GitHub Mar 29, 2015 I'm using Adobe Acrobat v11. Store currency is THB, Thai - Baht. [Checkout Page] [PDF file] ... View more

Feature request from zbych, posted on GitHub Apr 05, 2015 Getting following error: Instance of Magento\Framework\Data\CollectionDataSourceInterface is expected, got Some\Backend\Class\Of\Model\Defined\ByMe instead. I am not sure if it is intended, if it is, and it is within the rules of core functionality, then please cancel this issue and sorry for bothering. I am just not sure if blocks can accept only objects that inherits the Collection interface. ... View more

Feature request from joh-klein, posted on GitHub Apr 16, 2015 The current region codes for Germany seem not to be widely known (a quick Google search didn't reveal a source for them). And some others seem to be impractical but most importantly will probably hinder exchanging addresses with other systems. I could provide a PR with the current data for regions from Wikipedia for these 13 countries (US, CA, DE, AT, CH, ES, FR, RO, FI, EE, LV, LT, BR). Right now I lean towards adding another column for backwards compatibility. Quick link to relevant source code: https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/develop/app/code/Magento/Directory/Setup/InstallData.php#L300 ... View more

Feature request from JamesAnelay, posted on GitHub Jun 03, 2015 There is a bug/issue with widget sort orders which means if you have widget widget updates for the 'default' handle and another a specific handle e.g cms pages it is impossible to have your cms_page update block show above the default handles update block. This is because DB layout updates are pulled in per handle sorted and then the next handle is pulled in this means you can only sort widget updates on a per handle basis. A fix would be to pull the updates from the database using all current handles using IN($handlesArray) in the select statment. e.g for Magento1 https://github.com/JamesAnelay/WidgetSortOrders ... View more

Feature request from aoldoni, posted on GitHub Jun 17, 2015 Hi All, This is to discuss the scenario where cron tasks still run in Magento, even in maintenance mode. As per the installation guidelines, you should always activate the Magento cron in the crontab ( http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v1.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html ). This means adding the /bin/magento cron:run command to the crontab. Suppose a situation where you are with Magento under maintenance mode for, let's say, 30 minutes with the intention to run a MySQL backup or run some heavy database data synchronisation script. After looking at the code, I noticed that the following entry points will fail to run as we are in maintenance mode (which is a good thing): index.php cron.php (public web entry point). get.php static.php ...also API connections would fail as they all go through the \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::run() and the \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::assertMaintenance() methods. However, ./bin/magento cron:run would still run, as the cli cron entry point doesn't check for maintenance mode. Please note the following steps: vagrant@mage2:/vagrant/data/magento2$ ./bin/magento maintenance:enable Enabled maintenance mode vagrant@mage2:/vagrant/data/magento2$ ./bin/magento cron:run Ran jobs by schedule. This means that, even in maintenance mode, the crontab could still be firing database operations, and, depending on the Magento cronjob scheduled to be executed (or new custom cronjobs that were created), it could potentially trigger other heavy database operations to run in parallel with the database maintenance operations already being executed. So, if you really need to stop all operations in your application for a brief period of time (a maintenance window), you would (a) not only put Magento in maintenance mode, but would also need to (b) deactivate the cron. My conclusion based on the above is that it would make sense for at least the ./bin/magento cron:run command to check for the maintenance flag as well. This would be safer, and possibly assure that during maintenance mode there's nothing happening in the application. Can you guys please point out if you share this opinion? Thanks. ... View more

Feature request from kabel, posted on GitHub Jul 10, 2015 The mcrypt php extension and the underlying libmcrypt are unmaintained and there is a strong effort to remove them from the PHP core. [1] [2] This would be a good opportunity to port any password or data encryption to the better maintained openssl or password extensions. ... View more

Feature request from erikhansen, posted on GitHub Jul 13, 2015 I've been working with Magento 2 for the past couple of months. There have several times where I've tried to find what constant to use for the backend area and have been distracted by an inappropriate constant. The lib/internal/Magento/Framework/App/Area.php file contains these constants: class Area implements \Magento\Framework\App\AreaInterface { const AREA_GLOBAL = 'global'; const AREA_FRONTEND = 'frontend'; const AREA_ADMIN = 'admin'; If a developer is casually browsing the code, they may think that \Magento\Framework\App\Area::AREA_ADMIN is the appropriate constant to use to refer to the backend/adminhtml area. However this is another constant in a different class that is the appropriate constant to use when referring to the backend area: \Magento\Backend\App\Area\FrontNameResolver::AREA_CODE (the value of this constant is adminhtml ) To avoid this confusion for developers, I would recommend moving the backend constant into the \Magento\Framework\App\Area class and then add clear comments describing how the AREA_ADMIN constant differs from the AREA_ADMINHTML (or AREA_BACKEND , depending on what you decide to call it) constant. ... View more

Feature request from CRYX2, posted on GitHub Jul 15, 2015 Hello everyone, I was trying version 1.0 beta and I noticed that it is still the old editor of Magento 1. I think that the best solution for ecommerce in 2015 is to be able to use a much more advanced editor and also known by various types of users who normally use a website (Copywriter, customers, etc ...). CKEditor can use and create many different plugins, which allow all supporters to be able to create new plugin fully integrated into Magento same. ... View more

Feature request from johngrogg, posted on GitHub Jul 21, 2015 Are there any plans to add access to Orders when authenticated by a customer? Perhaps on something like GET /V1/orders/mine , similar to GET /V1/carts/mine ? That seems to be one of the few remaining missing end-points for the purposes of a full shopping experience (you can already manage account info through GET /V1/customers/me , but you can't access order data currently). ... View more

Feature request from robert198222, posted on GitHub Jul 27, 2015 As standard in 1.x it's only possible to add Discounts as Actions in Shopping Cart Price Rule. It would be a natural future to have both Discounts and Fees as rules. Fees could be useful if your Condition is a Payment Method and you want to add a fixed fee or/and percent of product price fee for the chosen Payment Method, for example Paypal. Same if you want to add extra fee for Conditions with very heavy products, special destinations, if subtotal is too low etc. ... View more

Feature request from toonvd, posted on GitHub Jul 28, 2015 This was not possible in Magento 1 for shipping methods but was for payment methods. This makes shipping extension creators override phtmls every time. Could it be usefull to make sure we can do this in Magento 2? To be clear, I want shipping method - custom template file, shipping method - custom template file (not required to add one tough) ... View more

Feature request from Pakkapao, posted on GitHub Jul 31, 2015 Hi, This is a feature request to have alternative method for adding attributes to the product template. Currently, the only way to add them is drag&drop which we couldn't do it via mobile. I have an idea showing list of available groups when long press attributes. ... View more

Feature request from barbarich-p, posted on GitHub Oct 26, 2015 Hello, I found a bug on discount calculation. File app/code/Magento/SalesRule/Model/RulesApplier.php Line 143 $qty = $this->validatorUtility->getItemQty($item, $rule); deeper - public function getItemQty($item, $rule) { $qty = $item->getTotalQty(); $discountQty = $rule->getDiscountQty(); return $discountQty ? min($qty, $discountQty) : $qty; } Line 157 - $this->validatorUtility->minFix($discountData, $item, $qty); go deeper - File app/code/Magento/SalesRule/Model/Utility.php $discountAmount = min($itemDiscountAmount + $discountData->getAmount(), $itemPrice * $qty); As a result, if some rule with field DiscountQty is applied after a rule without this field, the second one redefines the discount of the first one. I wrote a blog post with more details about the issue here - https://blog.amasty.com/little-known-discount-issue-in-magento-and-how-to-fix-it/ This bug comes from Magento 1, and also you can reproduce this issue at all Magento 1.4 + versions ... View more

Feature request from owenhaynes, posted on GitHub Oct 26, 2015 If you have more then one root category the following endpoint only ever returns one. Have 2 root categories (default and test root) the following is returned GET /rest/V1/categories {"id":2,"parent_id":1,"name":"Default Category","is_active":true,"position":1,"level":1,"product_count":0,"children_data":[{"id":3,"parent_id":2,"name":"Cat 1","is_active":true,"position":1,"level":2,"product_count":0,"children_data":[{"id":4,"parent_id":3,"name":"Cat 1 sub","is_active":true,"position":1,"level":3,"product_count":0,"children_data":[{"id":5,"parent_id":4,"name":"Cat 1 sub sub","is_active":true,"position":1,"level":4,"product_count":1,"children_data":[]}]}]}]} should this end point not return an array so that all the root categories are listed? This is very similar to #2096, as I guess he was only using root categories ... View more

Feature request from JamesAnelay, posted on GitHub Nov 12, 2015 In M1 to add a new Import file type handler e.g .tsv I need to add a new file with the class Mage_ImportExport_Model_Import_Adapter_Tsv in a local codepool (which sucks). It looks like this is similar in m2 (https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/develop/app/code/Magento/ImportExport/Model/Import/Adapter.php) $adapterClass = 'Magento\ImportExport\Model\Import\Source\\' . ucfirst(strtolower($type)); Would be nice to be able to add a new import type via XML so I don't have to touch the Magento namespace. As is the case with Export types. ... View more

Feature request from mage2pro, posted on GitHub Nov 13, 2015 For example, displaying the SKU to the customers would be unnecessary for some Virtual products (software, support, repair, consulting). ... View more