Need to set default qty and weight to 1 in admin

[pywrit]

Hi,

 

I'm running an online used bookstore and converting to the osc shopping cart. I list each book individually and shipping is based on total number of items being ordered. To get shipping to work, I'm using a weight of 1 for each item and have a shipping table based on that. It works fine, so far, but I have to manually add in the qty and weight when entering an item. What I would like to be able to do is set the default qty and weight to 1 in the admin/catalog/add product page. This would greatly speed up the process of entering over 5000 items with more on the way. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest]

why not use easypopulate to fill your database. then you can use excel, populate each field with what you want, then upload it.

[StephenGlynn]

I'm only a newbie at this but I'd have thought that going into phpMyAdmin and altering the defaults for 'orders_products' 'products_quantity' and 'products' 'products_weight' should do the trick if you want to have the same defaults for every item.

 

I've just tried it and it seems to work.

 

Could someone more experienced comment?

[Guest]

it does, however with 5000 products to add, you can do it all in easypopulate a lot easier and quicker than adding one product at a time in the admin