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Easy populate / bulk upload category descriptions - 1000's of attributes
I've got a HUGE zen job on at the moment, with around 6000 products which fall into over 250 categories and hundreds of attributes. I thought i'd share a possible solution and look forward to any suggestions on making the bulk uploading bit easier.
Many of the products have upto 20 variations (eg.. Plant pot is available in 15 styles with various sizes, shapes, number of holes in base, colour, height, volume, diameter) so as you can see, the attributes controller would be a massive ball-ache, as i'd have to stitch all the attrubutes into the products manually, and updating prices and stock would be impossible.
SO...
If I hack zen around a bit, the plan is to use the category description and image as the main page. This would have for example the pot, the main pot description, a grid with the product code - dimensions - number of holes - volume - etc. The products would sit under the grid (as products of the end category) displaying just to product code number, a quantity box, and add to cart button. By doing this, the full ep then allows me to upload most of the data via the csv.
The only thing I can't get my head around is how we can bulk upload the html description, html grid, and photo path to the categories? Does anyone know how to do this? Hacking the Easy Populate, PHP MyAdmin?
Thanks
Ky
