I am working with Product Attributes but I must be missing something. I want to create a new product attribute called Department, as my system is an internal ordering system all items that will be added to the cart must be assigned a department.
My department attribute will be a Drop Down Box with 8 or 9 items only problem I have is I can only asign the values / items when editing the product variant attributes which means this list only applies to that product variant.
Now I know I am not alone in the fact that carts may have a Product Attribute that has to be selected that is applicable to all products in the store, is there a way to create a standard product attribute that I can apply to any product variant without having to manually type in the values each time.
I thought this would be basic functionality but as I say I am new to this system and I think I am just missing a step.
I am working with Product Attributes but I must be missing something. I want to create a new product attribute called Department, as my system is an internal ordering system all items that will be added to the cart must be assigned a department.
My department attribute will be a Drop Down Box with 8 or 9 items only problem I have is I can only asign the values / items when editing the product variant attributes which means this list only applies to that product variant.
Now I know I am not alone in the fact that carts may have a Product Attribute that has to be selected that is applicable to all products in the store, is there a way to create a standard product attribute that I can apply to any product variant without having to manually type in the values each time.
I thought this would be basic functionality but as I say I am new to this system and I think I am just missing a step.
Cheers
Dougie
The only way to get this out of the box is that you create a "template product" whose variant has the attributes you need. Then when you create a new prodduct insted of adding a new one use the copy option. he new product will have the same attributes (and columns ) as the "template product"
Thanks for the reply, yeah I did look into doing that way, unfortuantly the second drop down box has a list of codes that change quite regulary which means I would have to go through every product and variant (over 1000 off) and manually edit the values to match the changes. I honestly thought that this option would be in the basic system as I thought it would be a popular request.
I may have to look into the SQL tables and the relationships between all the product attribute tables and see if I can change them to do what I want, I am a SQL Database desinger unfortuantly my c# coding and VS Studio experience is very minimal if I have to do any coding changes within the program
Thanks for the reply, yeah I did look into doing that way, unfortuantly the second drop down box has a list of codes that change quite regulary which means I would have to go through every product and variant (over 1000 off) and manually edit the values to match the changes. I honestly thought that this option would be in the basic system as I thought it would be a popular request.
I may have to look into the SQL tables and the relationships between all the product attribute tables and see if I can change them to do what I want, I am a SQL Database desinger unfortuantly my c# coding and VS Studio experience is very minimal if I have to do any coding changes within the program
Sorry was on holiday for a few days, the link to the add in seems perfect for what I am wanting to do, unfortuantly as this is a test system the company is not willing to spend Money on it, we have a system in place that uses a Lotus Notes Database although very outdated and cumbersome, but as its in place the company wont spend money on a new system.
Quick update, I have managed to change the SQL backend to allow me to do what I want, although its not a pretty option as I have to do some manual editing on the Tables instead of the Frontend.