assign one attribute to multiple products...?

[MorganKhalil]

i have done my best to search the forum regarding attributes, but i can not seem to find anything to do with what i need to accomplish here, so here is my question:

i have the usual "clothing" attributes, such as color and size. i need to be able to assign "color-blue" to products a, b, c, and d, "color-red" to a, and c, and "color-yellow" to b, c, d.... ect ect. how can i select the attribute, then say i want it assigned to products a, b, c, whatever? i cant "copy" from one product to another because not all products have the option of "red"... or whichever color it is.

some more background info, i am setting up a site for a screen printing business. they order their products from another company, print the desired logos on, and ship them out. only problem is, there are a stupid amount of color options for each product, and sometimes, not all colors for all sizes of that one product are available. example: http://gausssales.com/shared/all/cat...tem_code=G2000

can this be done? am i missing something with my options under the attributes controller?

[Ajeh]

You can copy the attributes of 1 Product to another Product or Category of Products ... however, there is not a pick and choose for which Products in a Category ...

[MorganKhalil]

thanks for the reply linda

only problem with that is that each product has different attributes... some might have blue but not all have blue small medium large... hope that makes sense

[Ajeh]

You could always make some "template" products where they are status off but have the attribute combo that you need to base your copy patterns on ...

[MsMiriam]

Can someone tell me how to delete attributes for all products so I can start over? Not the product , just the attribute.

[Ajeh]

Empty the tables products_attributes and products_attributes_download and that will delete all of the Attributes and associated downloads for them ...

You can do this in phpMyAdmin ...

NOTE: be sure to backup before making changes like this ...

[giftbasketree]

I want to apply a text attribute to every one of my products. But when I go to the Copy ALL it doesn't look like it will work for me, perhaps because my text attribute is only a name and doesn't have a value.

Is there another way to do this? Or am I misunderstanding the above scenario and there is a way to do it through the COPY ALL?

Thanks!

[giftbasketree]

I figured it out, I could almost cry that was so easy! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[kobra]

giftbasketree

Could you share your solution for the rest of the community???