Magento 2.x Feature Requests and Improvements

Feature request from vesan-83, posted on GitHub Aug 18, 2016 "composer install" command overwrite modifications in mapped files (files from composer.json -> extra.map node of magento/magento2-base module). Preconditions Magento 2.1.0 Steps to reproduce Clone the project where any of mapped file is customized e.g. pub/index.php or dev/tools/grunt/configs/themes.js Run "composer install" Expected result Customized file will stay customized so that "composer install" will not touch existing files. Actual result Customized file is replaced by default one ... View more

Feature request from ihor-sviziev, posted on GitHub Aug 23, 2016 I have CORS requests issue with fonts when I using CDN. In order to fix it I'm changing my .htaccess. During deployment I do composer install. After that my changes were reverted. Preconditions Magento 2.1.0 installed via composer Base Static URL is CDN domain (CloudFront in my case) Steps to reproduce Install Magento 2 via composer Change your file pub/static/.htaccess (as example add Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" ) Remove vendor directory Do composer install Expected result My pub/static/.htaccess file should not be overridden. Actual result My pub/static/.htaccess file is overridden and my changes were reverted. Possible solutions: Do not add this file to map listing in composer.json of magento2-base package, move it to magento/product-community-edition package Add ability to override htaccess ... View more

In the Netherlands you write a VAT number like this: NLxxxxxxxxxB01. Magento only allows a VAT code without the country code. ... View more

Feature request from colinmollenhour, posted on GitHub Sep 08, 2013 It seems that with all of the module components being moved into the app/code directories that the name "code" for this directory is far too specific and "modules" would be more appropriate. ... View more

Feature request from CodeMonkey90, posted on GitHub Aug 04, 2014 Some time ago, I've written a module that generates a "category" page (product list) for each manufacturer. Naturally, our client wanted to be able to add CMS blocks to certain manufacturer pages, so I made my extension generate layout handles and took a look at the Widget Instance editor to figure out how to extend the "Layout Updates" chooser properly to allow users to select certain manufacturers like you can already select products and categories. After looking at the code for some hours (especially the JavaScript code), I eventually gave up and added another grid to the backend which allows users to associate manufacturers with CMS Blocks. The solution I ended up with is not very flexible and kind of defeats the purpose of the "Widget Instance" admin page. It would be great if that could actually be a centralized point where users could add Widgets to arbitrary pages, like it's supposed to be. But so far, there doesn't seem to be a way to extend it properly for modules which generate layout handles dynamically. It would be great for both module developers and admin users if this possibility could be added. ... View more

Feature request from colinmollenhour, posted on GitHub Aug 19, 2014 MySQL decimal storage uses a minimum of 4 byes and can store 9 digits in these 4 bytes. Going up to 6 bytes you can store 13 digits. In most cases decimal(9,3) is sufficient and it would save 2 bytes per row/column. The maximum value would be 999,999.999 (1 million) instead of 99,999,999.9999 (100 million). Unless you are selling original artwork in Iranian Rial this should be sufficient. Also according to the ISO list of currencies there are no currencies which use 4 decimal places (but plenty that use 3, so 2 is not acceptable). For aggregation tables the better storage type would be decimal (13,3) since still 4 decimals are not needed and 13 takes the same storage space as 12. So for the same storage you can store numbers 100 times larger. It may seem like a minor optimization but in Magento 1 my sales_ tables currently have over 500 decimal(12,4) columns (some are third-party). 2 bytes 500 columns * 1 million rows is almost 1GB of storage, not to mention the indexed columns. Not huge, but quite significant. While you're at it, the report_event_types.event_type_id and report_event.event_type_id and report_event.subtype should be tinyint instead of smallint. Maybe these were removed or already changed in M2.. There are probably other columns that could be optimized as well. I think there is even a strong case to be made for changing store_id to "tinyint unsigned" throughout since operating over 256 stores is an edge case. I realize the DBMS abstraction may be an impediment to this change but considering only MySQL is actually supported I think that is far less important than a database that isn't wasteful of resources. Lastly, for anyone who is an edge case and decimal(9,3) is not sufficient it should be quite easy to install Magento, dump the database, use sed or a text editor to do a simple replacement and then re-import. ... View more

Feature request from fooman, posted on GitHub Jan 02, 2015 It would be great if all the xml schemas (referenced via xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation) could be hosted online and versioned. Until developer RC this could be named draft. ... View more

Feature request from seansan, posted on GitHub Mar 17, 2015 Change the setting Add Store Code to Urls from global setting to Store Name setting Currrently the setting Add Store Code to Urls is a global setting. This should be changed to one level down: Store Name level. One should be able to run 2 brands like this Brand A Add Store Code to Urls = YES nl site = brandA.com/nl en site = brandA.com/en Brand B Add Store Code to Urls = NO And different Base URL's nl site = brandB.nl en site = brandB.co.uk Curerntly when Add Store Code to Urls = YES the /en, /de, /fr, /nl are added to all stores in a multistore setting. In this example brand A follows this model, but Brand B does not and has unique domains Please change Add Store Code to Urls to Store Name level (instead of global setting). Some more explanation here: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/60686/multi-multistore-multiple-brands-multiple-languages-setting-store-view-code ... View more

Feature request from RMcLeod79, posted on GitHub Mar 31, 2015 Whilst the Magento documentation for Coding Standards state that PSR-2 should be used, there are multiple instances of protected properties being prefixed with an underscore i.e protected $_someProperty This does not conform to the PSR-2 Standard. As the docs state that PSR-2 is used instances of $_ should be removed. ... View more

Feature request from HirokazuNishi, posted on GitHub May 06, 2015 Magento1.x has serious issues of discarding decimals for some currencies (e.g. JPY, KRW, VND...). These currencies don't use under decimal numbers for currency. If merchants that hope to use these currencies, they have to use 3rd party extensions. Is it possible to add some configurations for handling under decimal numbers of currency? ... View more

Feature request from HirokazuNishi, posted on GitHub May 06, 2015 Magento1.x only uses "round" for tax and decimal number method, but sometimes it causes wrong result. Also some merchants use "floor" and "ceil" for discarding decimal numbers. Is it possible to choose decimal discarding method via admin panel for M2? If we do simply discard decimal numbers, converting currencies causes serious trouble. For example, 99.99USD is 11,961.15JPY ( 1USD is 119.6235JPY ), but JPY does not use under decimal number. Then correct result is 11,961 JPY. If "round" is used for discarding method, sometimes converting result is not correct. ... View more

Feature request from dbsdsun, posted on GitHub May 18, 2015 Problem: One block may template files. The Module Name is used to determine the template file location. MoudleB_BlockB can extend ModuleA_BlockA by specification in di.xml as following: In this case, the MoudleB_BlockB should use ModuleA as its module name, rather than MoudleB. Solution: Set target module name when generating a block as follwing. And this is last chance to set target module name. in file lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/Generator/Block.php, after line 157, add one line line155. $block = $this->createBlock($className, $elementName, [ line156. 'data' => $this->evaluateArguments($data['arguments']) line157. ]); new line. $block->setModuleName($block->extractModuleName($className)); line158. if (!empty($attributes['template'])) { line159. $block->setTemplate($attributes['template']); line160. } ... View more

Feature request from SKovbel, posted on GitHub Jun 07, 2015 Small question, could you add column 'Attribute Id' to grid "Product Attributes" in backend? Column very useful for production site, its support and developing when you want to sort attributes by last created or separate by new and system, sync,. Alphabetic sorting by code not the same. Sometimes also lacks Attribute Set Id from "Product Templates" :) ... View more

Feature request from 5mehulhelp5, posted on GitHub Jun 13, 2015 Hello i hope you are fine but i have some problem in table rate is there any why where table rate shipping will apply on taxed subtotal (tax including subtotal). so can we make some admin interface where user choose like apply tax on tax included or tax excluded subtotal. Thanks Please let me know if you need some more info. ... View more

Feature request from Vinai, posted on GitHub Jun 17, 2015 When constructing arrays using DI (or also in layout XML) with the array type, it seems to be impossible to influence the order or the elements except via module load sequence. However, it currently is not possible to have one module to add itself to the sequence of another module, which limits this option severely. As I'm sure you are aware, the sort order of the array elements can be quite important. In some instances, for example the RouterList , this problem is overcome by making each router in the list a sub-array with the possibility to add a sortOrder . This works fine, but if the injected array is one dimensional it isn't an option. It forces the structure onto the client receiving the array. In other cases the injected list is simply an array of objects or strings, without the chance to influence the sort order. One example is the composite phrase renderer. It isn't possible to add a renderer before the placeholder renderer. It would be quite useful to be able to add an optional sortOrder attribute to the item node, which - if present - is used to sort the resulting array argument. Maybe a before/after attribute (like in layout XML) would be more appropriate, but I'm sure opinions on this will vary. Personally I don't care, I would simply like to have an option to influence the sort order of dependency injected arrays built with in di.xml, without resorting to changing the module load sequence. ... View more

Feature request from nevvermind, posted on GitHub Jun 18, 2015 As Composer packages get used more and more, if not careful, some of their extra configuration may clash at some point in the future. Not only that, but having an en-gross extra object, it won't be easy to figure out which config belongs to what package. It would be great if Magento 2 would spearhead good practice (in my opinion at least) and use namespaced configs. We already have the best candidate for this: the package vendor + name combo - magento/magento2ce : "extra": { "magento": { "magento2ce": { "component_paths": { "package-specific": "stuff" } } } } If not good practice, at least M2 will shield itself from possible conflicts with other package configs. This seems like a small change anyway. But with lots of benefits from where I'm standing. ... View more

Feature request from johngrogg, posted on GitHub Jul 22, 2015 It would be super useful to have the Categories assigned to a product be added to the returned data (similar to how extension_attributes are available). Even better if you could filter based on them as well via searchCriteria . ... View more

Feature request from markoshust, posted on GitHub Aug 10, 2015 I understand this may be kept for legacy purposes, but this section lacks meaning. The Advanced>Advanced section should really be renamed "Module Output" or similar. ... View more

Feature request from danslo, posted on GitHub Aug 15, 2015 There are things like Magento\Customer\Block\Adminhtml\Edit\BackButton which don't contain any customer specific functionality, preferably they should be moved to a more generic place ( Magento\Framework\View or Magento\Ui ?) so other modules can make use of them without having dependency on Magento_Customer . ... View more