Mass near-duplication of products?

[Guest]

Say I have a category with products named "A" through "Z". I need to create an additional category with products named "FOIL A" through "FOIL Z", keeping all the information about models, weights, etc. from the original A-Z products intact.

 

Is there an easy way to do this? My store will eventually have over 1000 products, each with a near-duplicate "FOIL" product, so I stand to save _many_ tedious hours of typing if there's some way to duplicate this information. :)

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

Say I have a category with products named "A" through "Z". I need to create an additional category with products named "FOIL A" through "FOIL Z", keeping all the information about models, weights, etc. from the original A-Z products intact.

 

Is there an easy way to do this? My store will eventually have over 1000 products, each with a near-duplicate "FOIL" product, so I stand to save _many_ tedious hours of typing if there's some way to duplicate this information. :)

 

Thanks!

depends on your skill. the admin console allows you to copy a product as a "duplicate". but you would need to do this one by one which could take a long time.

 

I think there is a contribution that will help, but you would need to search as it's been a long time since I saw it.

 

if you got game writing code, you could write some SQL to do a lot for you.

 

B)

[♥bruyndoncx]

Installing the EasyPopulate contribution is a good investment.

You can then prepare your files in xls, one record per product with all necessary details; including attributes and categorization