My clients always want a quick tutorial for attribute use and, unfortunately, it takes more than a few lines in a email to impart even the basic information.\u00a0 So I’m skipping over the basic stuff and going straight to – wait for it – planning!\u00a0 Before you even start entering attributes, you just have to plan your attribute use and entry.<\/p>\n
For example, one shopping cart has a category for t-shirts.\u00a0 Every t-shirt has a size and a color, but the sizes and colors can be different on each t-shirt.\u00a0 One shirt might have small, medium and large; another might have medium, large and extra-large.\u00a0 One shirt is available in red only and another is available in 3 other colors.<\/p>\n
So the first thing to do is to group those shirts.\u00a0 Turns out each t-shirt is available in medium and large.\u00a0 Enter those attributes on one shirt and then you can copy that to all shirts in the category at one time.\u00a0 Then go back and add in small to one shirt that has that size and you can then copy those attributes one at a time to each shirt that\u00a0 it applies to. Do the same with any other sizes not added.<\/p>\n
You can also do the reverse and put all sizes onto one shirt and copy to all shirts.\u00a0 Then you only have to access the other products and delete the sizes not available for those shirts.\u00a0 Sometimes that can be faster than adding the sizes to the shirts.<\/p>\n
When you have a lot of products and a lot of attributes, you can see how complicated this can get!\u00a0 So plan out your attribute entries for the most efficient use of your or your employee’s time<\/p>\n
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