I need to re-order / sort the attributes on product detail page.
They are sorted with there attribute_id but I don´t want to delete and recreate them.
I know that the attributes can be sorted for the layered navigation with a Position value in Storefront Properties settings but it´s about the position in catalog product view > additional tab.
I´m not sure why I couldn´t find any answer somewhere but there should be some simple solution for this?
I would be very grateful for any hint
Do you mean this tab? You want to reorder, for example 'Pattern' to be first in the list? If so, you could override Magento_Catalog::product/view/attributes.phtml in your theme, and add custom logic inside the foreach statement. Maybe add all attributes to a new array but in the order you need, and after that loop through them and output on the frontend
If I understand correctly, you would want to add a specific separate position for each attribute, which would be used for rendering on product description page, not just to sort them in alphabetical order?
If just to sort in alphabetical order, you could do something like <?php ksort($_additional) ?> before the foreach statement, and it would sort in ascending order by key for example https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_arrays_sort.asp
But, if you want to have a position that you can set in the admin panel, inside the form, it gets more complicated. You would have to add a Data Patch for adding a new position Storefront Property for the attribute, different from the existing one, so it does not get mixed with the layered navigation position. Then update the admin form so you can set the value for specific property. Then, you would update the collection and setOrder by this new property.
For a lot of attributes the sorting with the sorting positions/field for layered nav could be helpful, but usually what I tried to achieve is very easy to do by sorting the product attributes in Attribute Sets. Why make the whole thing so complicated.
@Dan thank you again for your suggestions, efforts and your replies they can maybe help someone else ;)
