SAP Hybris: Add a new tab & attributes to Backoffice EditorArea

Prerequisite
- Create your custom Backoffice extension, say, ‘mycustombackoffice’
You will have 2 important files in your Backoffice extension
- mycustombackoffice/resources/ mycustombackoffice-backoffice-config.xml
- mycustombackoffice/resources/ mycustombackoffice-backoffice-widgets.xml

Editor Area in SAP Hybris backoffice cockpit is used to edit attribute values. You can have different tabs in editor area for an itemtype and each tab can have different sections.

For example, in case of ‘Product’ type, we have the tabs shown in the screenshot below;

EditorArea OOTB tabs available for ‘Product’ itemtype

As we can see, the out-of-the-box (OOTB) tabs available for ‘Product’ type are:

• Properties
• Attributes
• Category System
• Prices
• Multimedia
• Variants
• Extended Attributes
• BMECAT
• Administrator

By default, all the attributes of Product type and its sub-types will be displayed under ‘Administration’ tab > ‘Unbound’ section, in case if the attributes are not assigned to any tab and section.