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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 managementoperations are. If you spend lots of time and efforts while managing the products – it’s high time touse Product Manager Toolkit.

Extend product grid with any attributes like brand, cost, etc.Edit product data on the product gridEffective product management actionsAdd any attachments to product pageFast and user-friendly upload of product images

If you have a lot of products in your store, the process of product management may become reallyslow. As the result, you are forced to employ more managers and spend your time on dealing with themess 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 tomanage the extension settings.

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'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 onthe grid.

Editing Settings

Choose ‘Multi-Cell’ mode to save multiple edits in one go and ‘Single Cell’ mode to savemodifications automatically one by one.

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Grid Attribute Columns

This setting allows adding different attribute columns to the grid for different admin users. It is veryconvenient if you have several product admins – each of them can add the columns that arenecessary 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 thatenabled 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

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To see product quantity sold during the certain time period on the product grid you need to specifythe 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 setto ‘No’ if you prefer to indicate availability status manually.

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Edit products right on the product grid

Go to Admin panel → Catalog→ Manage Products

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At the moment single cell editing is enabled. To edit some information (e.g. price) just click on thefield you would like to edit. After you’ve entered the necessary info, please click any spot outside thefield for the data to get saved.

Now multiple cell editing is enabled. To edit some information(e.g. quantity) just click on the fieldsyou 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 besaved.

Products Creation Date

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Choose 'Creation Date' option to track products creation date. Sorting and filtering for this option isalso 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, clickthe ‘Grid Attribute Columns’ button.

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Add product attributes to the product grid

Specify standard columns that will be displayed on the grid and choose which of the columns will beeditable.

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You could add attribute columns.

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Specify additional columns that should be added to the grid.

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You can edit current grid template or create a new one.

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Easily switch between Grid templates.

‘Manufacturer’ and ‘Price View’ attributes have been added to the grid. Now it is possible to filter andsort products by these attributes. Also, you can edit the attributes right on the product grid (if setaccordingly at the configuration page).

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Add product attributes to the product grid

You can display product thumbnails on the grid.

JS validation based on attribute class

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In case you leave the field empty or enter wrong characters (e.g. letters in the price field), theextension will ask you to fill in the field correctly.

Guide to the mass product actionsPlease go to Admin panel → System → Configuration → Mass Product Actions to manage theextension settings.

General Settings

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Price Rounding

You can use two rounding algorithms for ‘Update Price’ and ‘Update Special Price’ actions. If youindicate 0.99 in this field, updated prices will be rounded to n.99, for example, 3.57 and 8.32 will berounded to 3.99 and 8.99 respectively. If you specify 0.5 here, prices will be rounded to n.50, so 3.57and 8.32 would become 3.50 and 8.50.

Show Categories as Tree

For categories-related actions you can either display the drop-down tree of categories or a text fieldfor entering category ids (id option could work better for catalogs with very large number ofcategories; also with this option you can remove/assign products to several categories at once, withdropdown – 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

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There are also settings for ‘Relate’, ‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions, which allow you to choose linkingalgorithms 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 ‘product2’ and ‘product 3’ as up-sells (or related/cross-sells) for ‘product 1’, only ‘product 1’ will become anup-sell (or related/cross-sell) for ‘product 2’ and ‘product 3’. ‘product 3’ will not become an up-sell (orrelated/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 andtoothpaste as related (or up-sells/cross-sells) to soap, all these products will become related to eachother – soap and shampoo will become related (or up-sells/cross sells) to toothpaste; toothpaste andsoap will become related (or up-sells/cross sells) to shampoo.

New Product Actions

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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, ModifySpecial Price using Price, Relate, Up-sell, Cross-sell, Copy Custom Options, Change Attribute Set, FastDelete.

‘Copy Attributes’ action

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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

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‘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 theproducts 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 beremoved from the category that you choose.

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You can remove/assign products to several categories at once, if you turn off tree-like category viewin configuration. Please enter ids of the categories in the ‘IDs’ field and click ‘Submit’.

‘Update Price’ and ‘Update Special Price’ actions

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‘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 10dollars/euros/etc.

‘Update Special Price’ action works on analogy. Please be careful with price operations, as there’s noway to revert them, unless you have a backup. Therefore we recommend creating a backup of yoursite database before doing major price modifications.

‘Modify Special Price using Price’ action

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‘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 specialprices 20 (e.g. dollars, euros or pounds) smaller than regular prices, indicate -20 in this field.

‘Update all Types of Price’ action

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‘Update All Types of Price’ action enables you to modify all price types including group prices and tierprices.

To make all prices 15% higher than regular prices, indicate +15 % in this field. To make all types ofprices 15 (e.g. dollars, euros or pounds) higher than regular prices, indicate + 15 in this field.

‘Relate’, ‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions

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‘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 youwould 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 cross-sell blocks. You can choose linking algorithms for these actions at the configuration page.

‘Copy Custom Options’ action

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‘Copy Custom Options’ action will enable you to quickly copy custom options from one product tomany others.

Use ‘From Product ID’ field to specify ID of the product, from which custom options should be copiedto the products you’ve selected. Then click ‘Submit’.

‘Change Attribute Set’ action

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‘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 thecurrent one and press ‘Submit’.

‘Fast Delete’ action

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‘Fast Delete’ action will let you delete any number of products very fast. In comparison with standardMagento ‘Delete’ action, it works a lot faster and also allows to delete a much larger number ofproducts in one operation.

Once you’ve chosen the action, please select the necessary products and click ‘Submit’ button. Pleasebe aware that the action can’t be reverted, therefore please create a backup before using it.

‘Replace Text’ action

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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,

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description etc.

Step 4: Insert current attribute text and the text that should be replaced. You should enter text in thefollowing 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 inthe catalog and search, or hide them.

‘Copy Images’ action

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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.

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As a result, the image form the product with ID 164 has been copied to product ID 165.

Guide to the AJAX Image Uploader

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In the product editing settings you could find a new tab - ‘Product Images’ and replace the old productimages to the new.

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Now to upload images for a product you just select the necessary images in your file browser on yourcomputer, then drag them to this area of ‘Product Images’ tab and drop there.

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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, smallimage 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

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upload them.

You can change a sort order of an image by just dragging it to the appropriate position.

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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. Itcan be the whole image block, only the images surface itself or just the header of the image block.

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Here’s a front end example of a product with images uploaded using ‘Express Image Upload’. Uploadof images took less than half a minute.

Guide to the product attachments

General Settings

Please go to Admin panel → System → Configuration → Product Attachments

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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 thebrowser 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 BeenOrdered' fields'

Specify Attachments Block default visibility settings for different customer groups.

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Add Product Files – Default Values

To start adding product files go to Catalog > Manage Product > choose any product > ProductAttachments tab

Specify the Title (visible on frontend), File Name. Choose the file which should be uploaded to theproduct attachments section.

There are 3 ways to upload the files: choose them from your computer, use drag-and-drop option orto 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 forordered items.

Choose store view

Product Attachments module fully supports multi-store functionality, it means that you can have adifferent configuration for each store view.

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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.

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Step 1: Specify the type of files, for which the new icon will be applied. You can specify several fileextensions 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.

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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

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Step 1: Upload product attachments via FTP, then create a CSV file to get uploaded documents matchthe right products.

Step 2: Upload CSV file to get uploaded via FTP product attachments match the right products.

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