Arributes with default prices

[RicM]

I am building a website to sell photos by download. I'm using ZC v1.3.9h. I am using Zen Cart as the front-end having previously used the Gallery2-Zen Cart combo which is no longer current.

I have set up most of the parameters and managed to pay for products using Express Checkout (the only payment method) in a sandbox and download corresponding zip files.

I will only ever price by attribute and there are two Option Names:

1. Size
2. License

Size has three values (small, med, large)
License has four values covering various managed rights.

All photos will have the same size options and the same license options. Each option value is associated with a corresponding price with size setting the base price and the License adding a value to that base price using (+).

I can achieve all of this in the attributes controller but it is an extremely tedious and time-consuming process adding the 7 prices for each new product. Is there a way of allowing all new products to acquire default attributes automatically (or at least trigger a script or process to do that) and with each attribute the associated price to allocate to the product?

Thanks,
Ric

[Ajeh]

If all Products always use the same attributes ... just make the Product then in the Attributes Controller go to a Product with the Attributes and use the Copy to Product and all the Attributes will be copied from the 1 product to the other ...

[RicM]

Thanks for the quick reply. I can see that if I have a non-selling product (a dummy reference product) with a name that makes it first in the list I can copy its attributes (and prices) to all new products recently added.

I can also see that if my types are based on, for example, some notional "quality" and that higher quality products command a higher price I can create further dummy products in each Product Type and copy the attributes to all other products in the same type.

Thanks again for the suggestion. It will save hours of work.

Ric

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that the built in Copy to Product and Copy to Category of Products the Attributes from a Product to other Product(s) works for you in the Attributes Controller ...