same attributes used in many products

[Pam Laing]

Let's say I'm selling stationery and there are a list of fonts the customer
picks from a drop down list. I have 100 products using this same font list.
I will often have a need to delete or add fonts to the list. Is there a way
to have a text file holding these values, and then call that file instead of
the entire list being in each and every product?

[Jim]

No, there is no one file that keeps a list of attributes. The attributes
are specific to products and each product could have a separate list
specific to it. This is one advantage I noticed in ShopSite over some
other shopping carts that I have looked at.

If you have lots of products using the same list of attributes though it
is a simple matter to change all of them at once using the global Power
Edit feature in a Pro store. Just select the products you want to
change, click Power Edit, select the field for attributes ("Option Menu
Text" in 8.1 or "Option Finite Text" in 8.0 and previous) and click the
Global radio button and Proceed. Then just enter the list of attributes
and save and publish. If you have a manager store you won't have the
"Global" option but you can still use Power Edit to just display the one
field and copy and paste the list of attributes into the field for each
product. Note that you could also do this through an upload of the
database with very little effort.

Jim

Pam Laing wrote:

Let's say I'm selling stationery and there are a list of fonts the customer
picks from a drop down list. I have 100 products using this same font list.
I will often have a need to delete or add fonts to the list. Is there a way
to have a text file holding these values, and then call that file instead of
the entire list being in each and every product?

[Pam Laing]

Thanks for the help. The products are all listed in spreadsheet format, so
I will probably take you advice and just upload those fields needed.

Thanks again.


"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:ea59p9$e7s$1@eval.shopsite.com...

No, there is no one file that keeps a list of attributes. The attributes
are specific to products and each product could have a separate list
specific to it. This is one advantage I noticed in ShopSite over some
other shopping carts that I have looked at.

If you have lots of products using the same list of attributes though it
is a simple matter to change all of them at once using the global Power
Edit feature in a Pro store. Just select the products you want to change,
click Power Edit, select the field for attributes ("Option Menu Text" in
8.1 or "Option Finite Text" in 8.0 and previous) and click the Global
radio button and Proceed. Then just enter the list of attributes and save
and publish. If you have a manager store you won't have the "Global"
option but you can still use Power Edit to just display the one field and
copy and paste the list of attributes into the field for each product.
Note that you could also do this through an upload of the database with
very little effort.

Jim

Pam Laing wrote:
Let's say I'm selling stationery and there are a list of fonts the
customer picks from a drop down list. I have 100 products using this
same font list. I will often have a need to delete or add fonts to the
list. Is there a way to have a text file holding these values, and then
call that file instead of the entire list being in each and every
product?