Mass Creation of individual Product Pages?

[esender]

I'm sure this is a simple task for shopsite, but I can't seem to find the solution even though I googled it and looked around.

Some Background:

My company's current shop site has 100's of products, but they are almost all listed on catagory pages. So there is really no individual product page (though there are some from before I started working there).

What I need to do is mass create an individual product page for each product in our system (and for each subsequent product that we add).

I know about custom templates and such, so I could work on creating a custom template file for individual product pages with the right include files, but I am not sure how to generate and create the URLs.

Lastly, for all the category pages, I will need to append an <a> anchor around every product in the site, so they will be seen on our current category pages and also they can be clickable so a user can see their individual product page.


I bet this is straight forward to a person who works shopsite, but I can't seem to find out how to do those tasks.... Thanks a lot

[Jim]

On the Edit Product Info screen there is a section called "More Info Pages" This is what generates the individual product pages. So Make sure that you have the box checked there so the page will be created. Also the product template must have a section
[-- DEFINE MORE_INFO_PAGE --]
# This defines how the more information page for the products
# that use this template will look
[-- END_DEFINE MORE_INFO_PAGE --]

Which defines how the product page looks. So if you create your own template make sure you include that section and the required html to create the page.

[esender]

On the Edit Product Info screen there is a section called "More Info Pages" This is what generates the individual product pages. So Make sure that you have the box checked there so the page will be created. Also the product template must have a section
[-- DEFINE MORE_INFO_PAGE --]
# This defines how the more information page for the products
# that use this template will look
[-- END_DEFINE MORE_INFO_PAGE --]

Which defines how the product page looks. So if you create your own template make sure you include that section and the required html to create the page.

Hmm, thanks a lot. I am wondering, would I need to do that for each individual product. There is actually over 10,000. I overlooked all our permutations.

Update: Ohh I see, the "Power Edit" Would do that. Hmm, wow, we have way too many products haha!



EDIT:
I notice it says "When you create a More Info page, the product name and image become a link to a single page with additional product in formation."

However, on my dev site where I enabled it, the product names are not links. They are still just regular text.

I did regenerate the site. No go.

[Jim]

Your product template needs to create the link. The ShopSite provided templates all do that but if you have created your own template then you need to include the code to make the link of the product name and/or graphic.

[esender]

Your product template needs to create the link. The ShopSite provided templates all do that but if you have created your own template then you need to include the code to make the link of the product name and/or graphic.

Ahh okay. I will look in the template files for the catagory-like pages.

I imagine I just need to wrap the text with something like

[--URL of product page--]

[--Item Name--]
[--END Item Name --]

[--END URL of Product page --]

Where I just need to wrap every instance with the [-- URL .. ] tag.

[Jim]

Something like this
<a href="[-- PRODUCT.MoreInfoURL --]">[-- PRODUCT.Name --]</a>