Product Manager Toolkit

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2 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit For more details see the Product Manager Toolkit extension page. Product Manager Toolkit The success of your online store largely depends on how quick and efficient product management operations are. If you spend lots of time and efforts while managing the products it s high time to use Product Manager Toolkit. Extend product grid with any attributes like brand, cost, etc. Edit product data on the product grid Effective product management actions Add any attachments to product page Fast and user-friendly upload of product images If you have a lot of products in your store, the process of product management may become really slow. As the result, you are forced to employ more managers and spend your time on dealing with the mess and complete frustration. Read on to find how to avoid such unpleasant situations. Guide to the product grid General Settings Please go to Admin Panel System Configuration Extended Product Grid with Editor to manage the extension settings.

3 2017/11/28 12:08 3/44 Product Manager Toolkit 'Allow to sort columns' - Choose Yes to be able to sort attribute columns on the product grid. 'Default number of records per page' - Choose how many records per page will be displayed on the grid. Editing Settings Choose Multi-Cell mode to save multiple edits in one go and Single Cell mode to save modifications automatically one by one.

4 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Grid Attribute Columns This setting allows adding different attribute columns to the grid for different admin users. It is very convenient if you have several product admins each of them can add the columns that are necessary for him or her. Additional Grid Columns Enable category filter It is possible to show product categories on the grid and enable category filter. Please be aware that enabled category filter increases server load. Show child categories You can make visible products of the lower categories on the Product Grid. Product quantity Specify how many related products, up-sells, cross- sells will be displayed on the grid. Product quantity sold for specified period

5 2017/11/28 12:08 5/44 Product Manager Toolkit To see product quantity sold during the certain time period on the product grid you need to specify the required calendar scale. The example of the product grid: Quantity based availability & product images When Quantity Based Availability option is set to Yes, availability will automatically change to 'In stock' when quantity is positive and to 'Out of stock when quantity is zero or negative. Please set to No if you prefer to indicate availability status manually.

6 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Edit products right on the product grid Go to Admin panel Catalog Manage Products

7 2017/11/28 12:08 7/44 Product Manager Toolkit At the moment single cell editing is enabled. To edit some information (e.g. price) just click on the field you would like to edit. After you ve entered the necessary info, please click any spot outside the field for the data to get saved. Now multiple cell editing is enabled. To edit some information(e.g. quantity) just click on the fields you would like to edit. It's more convenient when you edit large amount of information. After you ve entered the necessary info, please click Save button and all the modified data will be saved. Products Creation Date

8 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Choose 'Creation Date' option to track products creation date. Sorting and filtering for this option is also available. Add product attributes to the product grid To specify which attribute columns will be displayed on the grid and create a new grid template, click the Grid Attribute Columns button.

9 2017/11/28 12:08 9/44 Product Manager Toolkit Add product attributes to the product grid Specify standard columns that will be displayed on the grid and choose which of the columns will be editable.

10 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit You could add attribute columns.

11 2017/11/28 12:08 11/44 Product Manager Toolkit Specify additional columns that should be added to the grid.

12 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit You can edit current grid template or create a new one.

13 2017/11/28 12:08 13/44 Product Manager Toolkit Easily switch between Grid templates. Manufacturer and Price View attributes have been added to the grid. Now it is possible to filter and sort products by these attributes. Also, you can edit the attributes right on the product grid (if set accordingly at the configuration page).

14 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Add product attributes to the product grid You can display product thumbnails on the grid. JS validation based on attribute class

15 2017/11/28 12:08 15/44 Product Manager Toolkit In case you leave the field empty or enter wrong characters (e.g. letters in the price field), the extension will ask you to fill in the field correctly. Guide to the mass product actions Please go to Admin panel System Configuration Mass Product Actions to manage the extension settings. General Settings

16 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Price Rounding You can use two rounding algorithms for Update Price and Update Special Price actions. If you indicate 0.99 in this field, updated prices will be rounded to n.99, for example, 3.57 and 8.32 will be rounded to 3.99 and 8.99 respectively. If you specify 0.5 here, prices will be rounded to n.50, so 3.57 and 8.32 would become 3.50 and Show Categories as Tree For categories-related actions you can either display the drop-down tree of categories or a text field for entering category ids (id option could work better for catalogs with very large number of categories; also with this option you can remove/assign products to several categories at once, with dropdown only one category at a time). Copy Attributes In this field, you can specify the attribute you want to copy for a certain product (for instance, description). Product linking algorithms

17 2017/11/28 12:08 17/44 Product Manager Toolkit There are also settings for Relate, Up-sell and Cross-sell actions, which allow you to choose linking algorithms for these actions. There are three possible algorithms: Default, 2 Way and Multi Way: Default means, that relations between products will be built by the standard Magento functionality (that is when you have to manually indicate related, up-sell and cross-sell items for each product). 2 Way algorithm. For example, you have product 1, product 2 and product 3. If you add product 2 and product 3 as up-sells (or related/cross-sells) for product 1, only product 1 will become an up-sell (or related/cross-sell) for product 2 and product 3. product 3 will not become an up-sell (or related/cross-sell) for product 2 and product 2 will not become an up-sell (or related/cross-sell) for product 3. Multi Way algorithm. Let s say you have soap, shampoo and toothpaste. If you add shampoo and toothpaste as related (or up-sells/cross-sells) to soap, all these products will become related to each other soap and shampoo will become related (or up-sells/cross sells) to toothpaste; toothpaste and soap will become related (or up-sells/cross sells) to shampoo. New Product Actions

18 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit With the extension you get a number of new actions at the product grid (Admin panel Catalog Manage Products): Assign Category, Remove Category, Update Price, Update Special Price, Modify Special Price using Price, Relate, Up-sell, Cross-sell, Copy Custom Options, Change Attribute Set, Fast Delete. Copy Attributes action

19 2017/11/28 12:08 19/44 Product Manager Toolkit Step 1: Mark the products which will get the duplicate attributes. Step 2: Choose the action Copy Attributes Step 3: Specify the product the attribute of which you want to copy. Step 4: Please, don t forget to press the Submit button after the performed actions. Assign Categories and Remove Categories actions

20 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Assign Categories action will let you assign any number of products to a certain category. Please select the necessary products, choose the category and then click Submit button. All the products that you ve selected will be assigned to the category. For Remove Categories action you take the same steps, but this time the selected products will be removed from the category that you choose.

21 2017/11/28 12:08 21/44 Product Manager Toolkit You can remove/assign products to several categories at once, if you turn off tree-like category view in configuration. Please enter ids of the categories in the IDs field and click Submit. Update Price and Update Special Price actions

22 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Update Price action will let you increase and decrease prices either by a flat amount or by percent. To decrease prices by 20%, indicate -20% in this field. To increase prices by 10%, indicate +10%. Specify +10 to increase prices by 10 dollars/euros/etc., and -10 to decrease prices by 10 dollars/euros/etc. Update Special Price action works on analogy. Please be careful with price operations, as there s no way to revert them, unless you have a backup. Therefore we recommend creating a backup of your site database before doing major price modifications. Modify Special Price using Price action

23 2017/11/28 12:08 23/44 Product Manager Toolkit Modify Special Price using Price action enables you to create special prices based on regular prices. To make special prices 20% smaller than regular prices, indicate -20% in this field. To make special prices 20 (e.g. dollars, euros or pounds) smaller than regular prices, indicate -20 in this field. Update all Types of Price action

24 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Update All Types of Price action enables you to modify all price types including group prices and tier prices. To make all prices 15% higher than regular prices, indicate +15 % in this field. To make all types of prices 15 (e.g. dollars, euros or pounds) higher than regular prices, indicate + 15 in this field. Relate, Up-sell and Cross-sell actions

25 2017/11/28 12:08 25/44 Product Manager Toolkit Relate action enables you to make products related. First, select the products which you would like to relate. Then indicate ID of the product to which you would like these products to be related and click Submit button. The products will become related based on the algorithm that you choose on the configuration page (see page 5 of this user guide). Up-sell and Cross-sell actions work on analogy. They enable to you quickly assign up-sell and crosssell blocks. You can choose linking algorithms for these actions at the configuration page. Copy Custom Options action

26 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Copy Custom Options action will enable you to quickly copy custom options from one product to many others. Use From Product ID field to specify ID of the product, from which custom options should be copied to the products you ve selected. Then click Submit. Change Attribute Set action

27 2017/11/28 12:08 27/44 Product Manager Toolkit Change Attribute Set action will enable you to change attribute set of products (by one and in bulk). Pick the necessary products, select the action, then choose the attribute set, which should replace the current one and press Submit. Fast Delete action

28 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Fast Delete action will let you delete any number of products very fast. In comparison with standard Magento Delete action, it works a lot faster and also allows to delete a much larger number of products in one operation. Once you ve chosen the action, please select the necessary products and click Submit button. Please be aware that the action can t be reverted, therefore please create a backup before using it. Replace Text action

29 2017/11/28 12:08 29/44 Product Manager Toolkit Step 1: Select the required action. Step 2: Specify the attributes that you d like to change in the 'Replace in Attributes' field. Step 3: Use Replace Text action to easily change a text in different product attributes such as name,

30 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit description etc. Step 4: Insert current attribute text and the text that should be replaced. You should enter text in the following format: old attribute text new attribute text. Step 5: Once you ve chosen the action, please select the necessary products and click Submit button. Change products' visibility Mass Actions include an option to change products' visibility. Display selected products particularly in the catalog and search, or hide them. Copy Images action

31 2017/11/28 12:08 31/44 Product Manager Toolkit Use Copy Images action to copy the image of one particular product to other products. Step 1: Please select the Copy Images action from the actions dropdown. Step 2: Specify product ID of the item you want to copy an image from. Step 3: Once you ve chosen the action, please tick the necessary products and click Submit button.

32 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit As a result, the image form the product with ID 164 has been copied to product ID 165. Guide to the AJAX Image Uploader

33 2017/11/28 12:08 33/44 Product Manager Toolkit In the product editing settings you could find a new tab - Product Images and replace the old product images to the new.

34 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Now to upload images for a product you just select the necessary images in your file browser on your computer, then drag them to this area of Product Images tab and drop there.

35 2017/11/28 12:08 35/44 Product Manager Toolkit You can track the progress of the image upload. Once the images get uploaded, you can choose which of them should be used for a thumbnail, small image and base image. You can also add labels for images, enable/disable images and delete them. IMPORTANT! Don't forget to click Save or Save and Continue Edit button after the edits. If for some reason you don t want to or can t use drag-and-drop functionality to upload images - click Browse button, then choose the images (either one or multiple in one go) and press Open button to

36 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit upload them. You can change a sort order of an image by just dragging it to the appropriate position.

37 2017/11/28 12:08 37/44 Product Manager Toolkit Go to the Admin panel System Configuration - > Image Upload. You can choose the surface by which images should be dragged when their sort order is changed. It can be the whole image block, only the images surface itself or just the header of the image block.

38 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Here s a front end example of a product with images uploaded using Express Image Upload. Upload of images took less than half a minute. Guide to the product attachments General Settings Please go to Admin panel System Configuration Product Attachments

39 2017/11/28 12:08 39/44 Product Manager Toolkit Specify Attachments Block default visibility settings for different customer groups. Block Title On Product Page field Specify the name of the product files block, which will be displayed on the product page. 'Autodetect File Mime Type on Download' field Enable 'Autodetect File Mime Type on Download' option to let customers open files right in the browser window instead of downloading them. The files will be open in a new tab. 'Customer Group to Show Attachments Block' and 'Display Attachments Block if a Product Has Been Ordered' fields' Specify Attachments Block default visibility settings for different customer groups.

40 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Add Product Files Default Values To start adding product files go to Catalog > Manage Product > choose any product > Product Attachments tab Specify the Title (visible on frontend), File Name. Choose the file which should be uploaded to the product attachments section. There are 3 ways to upload the files: choose them from your computer, use drag-and-drop option or to specify the file URL. Use Sort Order field to manage the order in which files are shown on front-end. Set up file visibility (it can be visible on a product page or hidden when not needed). In the 'Customer Group' field specify a group of customers to whom the attachment will be shown. In the 'Show only if a Product has been Ordered' choose Yes to show product attachments only for ordered items. Choose store view Product Attachments module fully supports multi-store functionality, it means that you can have a different configuration for each store view.

41 2017/11/28 12:08 41/44 Product Manager Toolkit Each option can have a Default value or can be modified for a specific store view. Add New Icon You can add your own icons for the attached files (visible on frontend). To add new icons, go to: Catalog > Product Files > Icons > Add Icon. 10 icons are supplied with the module. If needed you can replace or delete them.

42 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Step 1: Specify the type of files, for which the new icon will be applied. You can specify several file extensions separated by a comma. Step 2: Upload the icon image. Step 3: Activate or deactivate the icon on a product page. Download Report To view download stats go to: Catalog Product Files Download Report You can analyze reports individually for each store view, or for all store views at once. A report can be presented for a specific time period. Use 'From To' fields to set up the time period. The reports can be exported to a CSV file.

43 2017/11/28 12:08 43/44 Product Manager Toolkit Mass Actions: Copy Attachments Step 1: To copy attachments from one product to other items please select the Copy Attachments option from the Actions dropdown. Step 2: Tick the products to which you want to copy the attachments. Step 3: Specify the product id from which you want to copy the attachments. Bulk Attachments Upload Please go to Admin panel Catalog Product Attachments Mass File Import

44 Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32 magento_1:product_manager_toolkit Step 1: Upload product attachments via FTP, then create a CSV file to get uploaded documents match the right products. Step 2: Upload CSV file to get uploaded via FTP product attachments match the right products. Rate the user guide from 6 votes (Details) Rate 2 visitor votes 1 visitor votes 0 visitor votes 0 visitor votes 1 visitor votes From: - Amasty Extensions FAQ Permanent link: Last update: 2017/10/20 09:32