Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 22 ■ Building a Commerce Site
To manage categories, click the Products link in the admin menu and click Categories in the drop-down
menu. On the Categories page, click the List terms link for “Product category” and edit Sample Category 1,
changing it to Shirts, and then change Sample Category 2 to Cups. Click “Add term” to add a new category
for Hats. After making the changes and adding the Hats category, the list of categories should look like
Figure 22-7. Click Save.
Figure 22-7. Product categories
Setting Up Products
Drupal Commerce uses product types as the mechanism for authoring product information. Think of
product types as content types in Drupal 8 core. A product type has a set of fields to describe the products
that you are selling, including elements such as product title, SKU, price, and product images. You can have
one to many product types, where the primary reason for having multiple product types is that the fields
that describe a product are significantly different between the various items that you are selling. As an
example, let’s say that you sell T-shirts and movies. The fields that describe a T-shirt (e.g., material, color,
size) are significantly different from the fields that describe a movie (e.g., genre, rating, actors, length).
In that case, it would make sense to create a separate product type for movies. Commerce Kickstart uses
the term variations as the label for product types (whereas straight-off-the-shelf Drupal Commerce uses
product types).
To view variations in Commerce Kickstart, click the “Store settings” link on the admin menu and then
click “Variation types” in the drop-down menu. The “Variation types” page (see Figure 22-8) lists all the
product variations that are defined on the site. Clicking the “manage fields” link for a variation displays all of
the fields for the product variation using the same interface as content types in Drupal 8 core. You can add
fields, rearrange fields, and control the display of products.
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