Inheritance of attributes sets

Question

I created a simple hierarchy of attribute sets, basing each one on its parent attribute set, adding attributes in each level.

Now I discovered that one ancestor attribute set needed another attribute.

I went to the children of this ancestor after adding the attribute, and for my surprise the attribute isn't added to the children.

Is this intentional ? What am I missing ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Attribute sets in Magento only use the Based On field for determining what attributes are a part of that set initially.

Unfortunately, once the attribute set creation has finished, there is no inheritance. You can see this fact if you look in the database in eav_attribute_set, and you will see there is no parent or based_on column.

You will need to manually add that attribute to any attribute set that is necessary.