Everything you need to know about Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x

This article will be very helpful if you are eager to know more about the changes in Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x.

Akeneo is an open-source Product Information Management solution provider organization. It is created in 2013 in Nantes by a Franco-American team and based in Nantes, Boston, and Dusseldorf.

Akeneo is the most used open-source PIM solution in the World. There are 60k companies over the Globe managing Product Information using Akeneo.

Akeneo started as an open-source PIM solution provider. They have also the enterprise edition of the Akeneo solution. It is famous among all the PIM because of its organizability functionalities.

Akeneo is one of the best PIM because of having various functionalities.

• Centralizing the data.
• Workflow Management
• Multi-channel configuration
• Multilingual Data
• Product Experiment Management
• Data consistency

Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x is a Short-Term Support (STS) versions of Akeneo. These versions of Akeneo PIM 3.1.x and 3.2.x comes with the improvement in Akeneo version 3.0.x. came with a major improvement in reference entities and Franklin Insights.

Akeneo PIM provides the efficiency of collecting, enriching, and spreading your product data. It is very easy to sync the product data to different E-commerce channels, mobile, and Web Print using API.

Webkul is one of the best Akeneo solution providers in the World. Webkul is one of the largest Akeneo solution providers in the World.

Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x: Short-Term Support (STS) Version

Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x are Short-Time Supported (STS) versions and will provide support for 3 months. The enhancement in version 3.1 is only applied to the Enterprise edition.

The enhancement in version 3.2 is applied to the Enterprise and Community editions both.
These releases of Akeneo PIM come with further improvement.

• Akeneo API
• Performance
• Akeneo Workflows
• Reference entities
• Franklin Insights

Reference Entities Enhancement

Reference Entities help to create and enrich the entity related to the product. This feature is available in the enterprise edition of the connector.

The reference entity helps to create and manage the common options for the products. For example, the user can create a reference entity to manage their countries, colour, and size. It will work for entities shared between many products.

• Filter on the options and reference entities links attributes in the grid :

In version 3.1, the user can filter the reference entities based on the options and reference entities’ links attributes.

For example, if there is a “Color” reference attribute that has different options in a Blue attribute like “Baby blue” and “Alice Blue” then the user can search “Color” with “Baby blue” options.

• Display the options and reference entities links in the reference entities grid :

With this enhancement, the values of a reference attribute type (single/multiple options and reference entity single/multiple links) will be displayed in the record grid.

• New number attribute type :

With this enhancement, now the users can add the number type of attribute of the reference entity. Furthermore, it will help to add the numeric values and the values also can be decimal with the min and max limit.

• New ability to display products linked to a reference entity :

With the option, it is possible to see all the products that are linked to a reference entity. For example, if multiple products have the reference entity “colour” then all the products related to the reference entity will be visible in the grid.

Franklin Insights Enhancement

Franklin Insights is an Enterprise Feature in Akeneo. It provides the feature of the product data intelligence assistant.

Franklin Insights helps merchants to enrich compelling product information in less time. Akeneo versions 3.1 and 3.2 come with the enhancement in the feature of Franklin. These are the furthermore features and enhancements:

• Filter on subscribed products in the product grid
• Exact match attribute mapping
• Suggest attributes for a family
• Suggest creating new attributes
• Work in progress
• Faster time to generate proposals

Workflow Enhancements

Workflow and Proposals are the features of the Akeneo Enterprise Edition. With this, the admin can create a different type of permission for the users.

In this, some users have ownership permission and can approve/disapprove products. Some users have permission to edit the product information and sent it for approval.

This version of Akeneo comes with some enhancements in workflows.

• Filter on the basis of the draft status of products.
• Bulk and sequential edits for the products then send them for approval.

Export Performance Improvements

Version 3.2 comes with a major improvement in API. Now, the user can export the products “5 times faster” with the API on average compared to exports via Excel or CSV. Moreover, in Akeneo, the export process totally depends upon the size, values, and assets of the products.

With this major change in API, now the user can export more than 200,000 products per hour or 57 products per second with an average of 400 values. The users can export approx 700,000 products per hour or 192 products per second 50 values per product.

API Enhancements

The major API enhancement in Akeneo version 3.2 is in the product model API call.

• Product Model (variant) endpoints: With this enhancement in API, the API will take fewer calls to retrieve the family information. Without this enhancement, the users were not able to fetch the family information of a product model in API.
• Filter in retrieving variant products: With this enhancement, the user can retrieve all the variant product(child products of a variant) for a given product model.

Support

That is everything you need to know about Akeneo 3.1.x and 3.2.x. For any issues related to the Akeneo module, please create support ticket Also, for any pre-sales queries or customization discussion, please drop an email to support@webkul.com