Video: Quickly Create Products and Attributes
Magento’s next release will feature the ability to add simple products and attributes directly through a configurable product. In this video, we create a new configurable product and present this time-saving functionality. Please note that we also expect to add the ability to copy configurable product data to a newly create simple product, making data entry a snap.
1Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted March 1 2008
Great to see some improvements to the configurable products. This feature will help, but I must admit I was hoping to see something that would generate a number of products automatically based of just a minimal amount of data.
Also, is it possible to duplicate a product from this screen (and will the duplicate bug be fixed).
Hope I’m not sounding ungrateful, I think the Magento team are all doing a super job!
2iguru from Děčín, Czech Republic|posted March 1 2008
Waw. It’s great! When we get this nice gift?
3YoavKutner |posted March 1 2008
@Ross - The way this was implemented you only need to enter the required data for the simple product. We have plans to improve on this even more but I am not sure it will make it into the first stable release.
The duplicate product bug should be fixed for the next release.
Thanks
yoav
4roskolnikov from Caribbean|posted March 2 2008
Good stuff guys keep it rollling!
5gordon |posted March 3 2008
nice features keep coming in, Thanks!
6foojativ |posted March 3 2008
Wow that was confusing! Too many screens, tabs, attributes, etc. Lucky magento is open source because i wouldn’t pay for it. I guess it’s the same as any other open source product - you get what you pay for. In this case a confusing user interface and clunky layout.
7Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted March 3 2008
@foojativ - I think if you actually try Magento you will see that it bucks the trend of poor quality opensource software, and is actually a lot better designed that most commercial solutions (any I have seen).
8Ron Seigel from Ottawa, ON|posted March 3 2008
@foojativ
I was wondering when one of HPDL’s trolls would finally show up from OSC.
Thanks for the laugh…
9roskolnikov from Caribbean|posted March 3 2008
@foojativ maybe your brain isn’t complicated enough to keep up - OSC troll