Features & Functionality - 3.1 Magento Admin

Question 1

What are the sections of the Admin and what do they do?

Answer 1

• Dashboard: the entry-point into the system
• Sales: orders, invoices, and shipping
• Products: management of the product catalog
• Customers: customer management
• Marketing: promotions, SEO, and user reviews
• Content: CMS pages and blocks
• Reports: Magento reports on sales and customer interaction
• Stores: Configuration, store setup, attributes, customer groups, taxes and currency
• System: Cache management, import/export, permissions

Question 2

User roles and role scope?

Answer 2

• User roles are groupings of allowed functionality.
• Magento ACL is very granular to grant or deny access to most every area of the system.
• Set up a role to say where users can be allowed or denied.
• Easy to assign or change user access.

Question 3

Grids and views

Answer 3

• Two types of Magento grids: UI component and old style.
• Many grids have a field at the top for filtering that column (betterUX than UI component style).
• UI component type (products and customers):
• Filtering link > section for determining what to see
• More flexible and editable
• Allows for setting bookmarks
• Old style:
• Essentially the same as Magento 1, but a different theme.

Question 4

How is role scope used?

Answer 4

• To limit admin access to specific areas of a system. An example is
a CSR where you might not want them to have access to system
configuration. You might only give them access to the Sales and
Customers area.

Question 5

How can you customize a grid display for your own purposes?

Answer 5

• Drag/drop columns to reorder them
• Show/hide columns
• Save specific column configurations for later access.

Question 6

In which section of the Admin are most initial configuration options located?

Answer 6

Store > Configuration