Admin product tab generation is incorrect for configurable, downloadable, bundle and grouped products because it depends on «product-details» tab which could be absent

dmitry_fedyuk · October 4, 2015, 5:40am

See the code:

magento/magento2/blob/12955b1c7e43c560dc1060c136858531d403c682/app/code/Magento/Bundle/Block/Adminhtml/Catalog/Product/Edit/Tab/Bundle.php#L171-L174


public function getParentTab()
{
    return 'product-details';
}

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/12955b1c7e43c560dc1060c136858531d403c682/app/code/Magento/ConfigurableProduct/Block/Adminhtml/Product/Edit/Tab/Super/Config.php#L124-L126


public function getParentTab()
{
    return 'product-details';

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/12955b1c7e43c560dc1060c136858531d403c682/app/code/Magento/Downloadable/Block/Adminhtml/Catalog/Product/Edit/Tab/Downloadable.php#L71-L74


public function getParentTab()
{
    return 'product-details';
}

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/12955b1c7e43c560dc1060c136858531d403c682/app/code/Magento/GroupedProduct/Block/Product/Grouped/AssociatedProducts.php#L34-L37


public function getParentTab()
{
    return 'product-details';
}

They all related on product-details attribute group code.
But all the attribute groups can be freely renamed and deleted through the adnmin interface. If you do so, you breaks your admin pages for configurable, downloadable, bundle and grouped products.

Moreover, in some cases the buggy Magento 2 code wrongly renames product-details group for you (and breaks admin pages for you): BUG: the product general attributes (name, sku, price, quantity) are wrongly in “Images and Videos” section now

GitHub issue: 2021

dmitry_fedyuk · October 4, 2015, 5:45am

This leads to the bugs:

Bug: the system requires to set a configurable option of configurable (not simple) product
After resaving a configurable product the system makes it simple (not configurable)