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    Default Including common text and links across multiple product descriptions

    1) I have many products where I need to have a common portion of text shared within the product description across multiple products.

    I don't want to copy and paste because if in the future, I need to change that common shared text, I don't want to have to update all those pages manually. It would be ideal if I could update one page when changes need to be made it would of course take care of any product containing that text.

    In Zen Cart, is it possible to create a page somewhere that I can somehow include across multiple product descriptions?



    2) Also, I want to be able to provide a link to a "coat sizing and measurements" page from multiple products. In Zen Cart, is it possible to create a page somewhere that I can then link to when needed?

    EZ-Pages seems like it should be able to do this but, I can't seem to figure out how create a page and then find the link to the page I created.

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    Default Re: Including common text and links across multiple product descriptions

    Quote Originally Posted by Scarpine View Post
    1) I have many products where I need to have a common portion of text shared within the product description across multiple products.

    I don't want to copy and paste because if in the future, I need to change that common shared text, I don't want to have to update all those pages manually. It would be ideal if I could update one page when changes need to be made it would of course take care of any product containing that text.

    In Zen Cart, is it possible to create a page somewhere that I can somehow include across multiple product descriptions?



    2) Also, I want to be able to provide a link to a "coat sizing and measurements" page from multiple products. In Zen Cart, is it possible to create a page somewhere that I can then link to when needed?

    EZ-Pages seems like it should be able to do this but, I can't seem to figure out how create a page and then find the link to the page I created.
    I have before run in to the common text issue and for reason you stated for ease of changing and the risk of duplicating phrases across all of the products... We used a single image, change the image and you change the text

    In your product editing/adding page Product url field... Make either static page, defined or ez page as you wish.

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