A product attribute is the characteristics of the product that gives information about the product and change the consumer purchase decision. A product attribute is associated with the product to provide more information to the customer. Product attribute is like size and description.

You can create many attributes and attribute groups as describe the products in your catalog. If you are going to sell similar products then you can define the product family. The family of the products defines the similar characteristics.

You can map attributes from Akeneo to Moodle. You can also create an attribute with using of Akeneo if you need so. It is used for the accurate product synchronization. You can add more attribute like File, Identifier, and MultiSelect.

• Synchronize Moodle Courses fields with Akeneo Product attributes
• You can also use any fixed value for the exported product
• You can mention Akeneo attributes for files and images

You can export file and images from your Akeneo products to Moodle as courses. You can fix the file sizes and the image type. The merchant can add some attachment file with the products while export from Akeneo to Moodle. The end user can download the file. Exporting the images and file provides more accessibility to the customer.

Exporting Images – You can export the images and the exported images go to the same folder and same format to the Moodle store.

Exporting Documents - You can export the documents and the exported documents go to the same folder and same format to the Moodle store.

• Send courses images
• Works with various variation
• You can send the attachment like pdf and docs
• You can limit the sizes

Categories help you to separate the products that are similar. You can choose a single category or multiple categories when you are going to export a product from Akeneo to Moodle. You can create a new category and sub-categories at the time of export the product.

A product can be classified in none, one or more categories. A product can be classified in one category or it’s sub-categories. A product category classify the product catalog. If you made changes in one category then you can export only that category.

• Export category as such as in Akeneo
• You can assign a category to the products
• You can send the send the sub-categories as well as categories

You can filter the product in Akeneo export job. It will help you to choose the product what you want to export. You can filter the product according to Family, Status, Completeness, Time condition and Category. For example, if you made changes in some products like clothes so you can export only those product. There is no need to export all the products.

• Family – Here you can select the family what you made for the products having the same attributes.
• Status – You can filter the product on the basis of status. 1. Enable – You can export all enable products. 2. Disable – You can select all disable products. 3. All – Here you can select all enable and disable products.
• Completeness – You can filter the product with product completeness. 1. Complete on at least one selected locale 2. No condition on completeness 3. Complete on all selected locales 4. Not Complete on all selected locales
• Time Condition – You can filter with time condition. 1. No date condition 2. Updated products over the last n days 3. Updated product since this date 4. Updated product since last export
• Category – You can filter the product using category and sub-categories.

The locale is a specific example and description of a native-language environment. Akeneo PIM supports multi-languages. Locale or used to translate the data from one language to another.

Locales are also used in the PIM to set the attribute values which may differ for different locale. A customer can see the product in the different locale if he needs so.

Locales are the set of parameters that defines the user language. You can map the locale what you want to show to your end users. Akeneo offers more than 200 locales by default that you can activate following your needs.

You can have one or more locales activated in your PIM.

• It helps you to choose the end user language.
• You can select the multiple locales.

Akeneo 3.0 (Akeneo 3.1) is Long Term Supported (LTS) version which includes three main terms:

• Managing reference entities,
• Support for Single Sign-On, and
• Performance improvements.

Akeneo has done some technical improvements like:

• Elasticsearch 6.5.4 Support,
• PHP 7.2 Support, and
• MySQL Encoding (Utf8mb4) Support.

Now it is easy to load 1,000,000 products and 20,000 categories in two seconds in Akeneo grid. Also, export 100 products in 10 min (with images + reindexing) for two store views.

We have made all our Akeneo modules compatible with Akeneo 3.0 & 3.1. And implemented RabbitMQ to make the export process faster.

We have added Automated Process to export products using automate CSV upload and made it work with Akeneo Community and Enterprise editions with latest features.