Adding options to a productiMakeSense - E-commerceBy howard hayakawa, web developer
Adding options
- option type
- You can’t add anything until there is an option type. For example you can’t define 5.5 EEE until the catalog knows about size. That’s what we do first. Use the option type table and type the name of the new option in the text box.
- Click “insert” this creates the option type such as “size” but the option still doesn’t exist.
- Option values
- Use the section at the bottom of the option value table to add values.
- Pick the option type using the pull-down.
- Enter the value (7.5 E) and click “insert”
- Repeat until all the option values for the new option type are entered.
- Get the option into the product.
- Brute force method is to add them one at a time.
- Use the “product attributes” table to do this.
- At the bottom of the table is the entry form.
- Select the product name
- Select the option name
- Select the option value
- Click “insert”
- Repeat until all the “sizes” are in. This can be very laborious if you’re entering sizes but not too bad if you’re entering a couple of colors. See “Attribute Sets” if you’re dealing with a large number of common clumps of options like size.
- The easy way to get large numbers of options like size into a product is to use “attribute sets”.
- Go to the product edit directions to get to the product.
- Once in edit mode, click “Add A.S” and select the set that you want. Until you become familiar with the sets, you’ll probably need to go to “attribute sets” section to see what each one is. Print or write them down.
- There are directions on creating “attribute sets”.
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