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When I create a dropdown attribute, Magento is always setting the "Use To Create Configurable Product" as Yes.

While in the install script I added in the options array to the Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::addAttribute() method:

"in_configurable" => false

This option is still not working.

Sample code to add an attribute from an install script:

$options = array(
    'type'                       => 'int',
    'label'                      => 'Color',
    'input'                      => 'select',
    'required'                   => false,
    'user_defined'               => true,
    'searchable'                 => true,
    'filterable'                 => true,
    'comparable'                 => true,
    'visible_in_advanced_search' => true,
    'is_configurable'            => false,
);
$this->addAttribute(
    Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY,
    'size',
    $options
);

After I go into the Admin Panel and view the attribute data, the is_configurable attribute is set still set as Yes.

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  • try like this format 'is_configurable' => '0'
    – DRAJI
    Oct 7, 2014 at 12:44
  • @DRAJI does not work, same result.
    – Dan
    Oct 7, 2014 at 12:50

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You should actually use Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup::addAttribute()
instead of Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::addAttribute()

As you have found out in the code, Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::addAttribute() only allows the following options:

backend
type
table
frontend
input
label
frontend_class
source
required
user_defined
default
unique
note
global

Whereas Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup::addAttribute() allows all of the above, plus the following options:

input_renderer
global
visible
searchable
filterable
comparable
visible_on_front
wysiwyg_enabled
is_html_allowed_on_front
visible_in_advanced_search
filterable_in_search
used_in_product_listing
used_for_sort_by
apply_to
position
is_configurable
used_for_promo_rules

You can use this class even if you have defined another setup class in your config.xml:

$installer = $this;
$installer->startSetup();

// Create your tables, etc

$catalogInstaller = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/setup', 'catalog_setup');
$catalogInstaller->addAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY, 'size', array(
    'type'                       => 'int',
    'label'                      => 'Color',
    'input'                      => 'select',
    'required'                   => false,
    'user_defined'               => true,
    'searchable'                 => true,
    'filterable'                 => true,
    'comparable'                 => true,
    'visible_in_advanced_search' => true,
    'is_configurable'            => false,
));

$installer->endSetup();
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  • Thanks for this! Just a small improvement though, you can tell Magento to use the Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup class instead of the EAV one in the config.xml file of a module. This way, $this would be an instance of Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup, so you won't have to create a new instance of a resource setup in the update/install script.
    – Dan
    Apr 27, 2017 at 19:42
  • @Dan Indeed, the "normal" way would be to specify <class>Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup</class> in the config.xml file. I used a different technique because I needed to add product attributes (Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup::addAttribute()) as well as order attributes (Mage_Sales_Model_Resource_Setup::addAttribute()) in the same install script.
    – Sébastien
    Apr 28, 2017 at 12:37
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If you go through the Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::addAttribute() method, you can find that the options are getting filtered in the Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::_prepareValues() method.

The _prepareValues method only allows the following options to go through:

'backend_model', 'backend_type', 'backend_table', 'frontend_model',
'frontend_input', 'frontend_label', 'frontend_class',
'source_model', 'is_required', 'is_user_defined', 'default_value',
'is_unique', 'note', 'is_global'

Any option that needs to be set, and is not in previous list, cannot be passed into the addAttribute method.

The only exception to those are: sort_order, group, user_defined and option. Those are used independently from the _prepareValues method.

One way to work around this issue, is to update the attribute after it is created, using the Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup::updateAttribute() method.

$this->updateAttribute(
    Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY,
    'size',
    'is_configurable',
    false
)
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