Behind the Scenes Video: Magento Mass Grid / Batch Updates
By popular demand and feedback from the community, Magento’s upcoming release will introduce a mass-grid update feature. This will allow quick, on-the-fly management of batched data updates for products and customers.
In this video, we show…
- Filtering the product grid to display simple products with an attribute set of “Shoes”.
- Selecting all products that meet the search criteria.
- Selecting the Update Attributes action to view the common attributes that are shared across the selected products.
- Changing the Gift Messaging attribute.
- Saving the changes will effect all 40 products selected.
What’s Ahead
This feature will be extended to other grids in the system (e.g. orders). Additionally, mass grid price updates will allow the ability to update prices for any number of selected products by percentage and/or fixed amounts (this feature will be implemented as a seperate action to the product grid).
1Jonathan Hedrén from Sweden|posted December 30 2007
That looks great! I’m looking forward to try it myself…
2gordon |posted December 31 2007
Thank you so much for this great feature. Looking forward to this. When will be the next release?
3RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted December 31 2007
@gordon - we hope the next release will be next week (probably in the later part of the week).
4gordon |posted December 31 2007
Thanks. RoyRubin, I have marked my calendar. Without this feature, it is really a great pain to set common attribute values for similar products.
5Loïc from Paris, France|posted January 2 2008
+1 ! Thanks so much for this important feature. It’s great to have a lot of possibilites, but it’s also important to be able to batch or automate them.
6handcoded |posted January 15 2008
In regard to price updates will there be an extra table that stores the old prices so they can be reverted again quickly ? This would make sense that you could offer discounts for just the weekend for example. Also would it be possible to show the discounted products in both the original location and in a special offers category at the same time which is removed when the price is reverted back.
If yes then cool.
7gordon |posted January 15 2008
@handcoded, why don’t you use Catalog Price Rules? You can activate and deactivate the promotion as and when you wish
8handcoded |posted January 15 2008
Very good point Gordon. I suppose I’m not used to having such power at my fingertips.