kalukee Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 I remember reading a thread about someone trying to modify easypopulate to work with attrributes. couldn't find it again can this be done?? AND is there any way to get an atribute to mutiply instead of adding a value?? i have a map with a choice of laminating or not,... the laminated price is 1.9 times the regular price I tried changing the previx to * but this just subtracted $1.90 from the price Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasson65 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 I remember reading a thread about someone trying to modify easypopulate to work with attrributes. couldn't find it again can this be done?? AND is there any way to get an atribute to mutiply instead of adding a value?? i have a map with a choice of laminating or not,... the laminated price is 1.9 times the regular price I tried changing the previx to * but this just subtracted $1.90 from the price Thanks At this point, EP doesn't support attributes. Part of this is because of the open-ended nature of attributes. One product can have one set of attributes, another product has an entirely different set of attributes. And how to put this into a file that makes sense when you look at it in Excel? So those are the issues, and the current state of affairs. If you'd like to spearhead an effort to discuss what kind of file layout would make sense, that's the hard part of the work. Coding it up is not probably a big deal. I don't personally have time to do the leg work on getting requirements, etc, but if you'd like to , I'd be happy to support that effort. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalukee Posted April 11, 2003 Author Share Posted April 11, 2003 Tim Finnaly I get a chance to revisit the subject. Couldn't Easy Populate be configured to have any number of attributes apply to it by doing something like this. The default EP setup could be one attribute with two options and the usr could add as needed, or not. Just have a switch to tell EP which attributes apply to what product. Granted there would be alot of redundant data in the spreadsheet because I could have 25 different sets of attributes all with X number of options and each product has only 1 or 2 or none associated with it, but .....so what? Maybe i'm not thinking deep enuff to cover all angles. v_products_model v_products_image v_products_name_1 v_products_description_1 v_products_name_2 v_products_description_2 v_products_name_3 v_products_description_3 V_product_attrib_switch blank or 0 --> no attributes associated with this product 1 --> attribute 1 applys to this product 2 --> attribute 2 applys to this product 3 --> attribute 3 applys to this product 4 --> attribute 4 applys to this product 1-3 --> attribute 1 and 3 applys to this product 2-3-4 --> attribute 2,3,and 4 applys to this product etc etc v_product_attrib_1 v_product_attrib_1_option_1 v_product_attrib_1_option_1_action - add 5, multply by 1.7, whatever v_product_attrib_1_option_2 v_product_attrib_1_option_2_action v_product_attrib_1_option_3 v_product_attrib_1_option_3_action v_product_attrib_1_option_X v_product_attrib_1_option_X_action v_product_attrib_2 v_product_attrib_2_option_1 v_product_attrib_2_option_1_action - add 5, multply by 1.7, whatever v_product_attrib_2_option_2 v_product_attrib_2_option_2_action v_product_attrib_2_option_3 v_product_attrib_2_option_3_action v_product_attrib_2_option_X v_product_attrib_2_option_X_action v_products_price v_products_weight v_date_avail v_date_added v_products_quantity v_manufacturers_name v_categories_name_1 v_categories_name_2 v_categories_name_3 v_categories_name_4 v_categories_name_5 v_categories_name_6 v_categories_name_7 v_tax_class_title v_status EOREOR ```````````````````````````````````````````` v_product_attrib_1 COLOR v_product_attrib_1_option_1 RED v_product_attrib_1_option_1_action +$2.00 v_product_attrib_1_option_2 GREEN v_product_attrib_1_option_2_action +$2.00 v_product_attrib_1_option_3 BLUE v_product_attrib_1_option_3_action *1.3 ````````````````````````````````````````````` Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasson65 Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 So essentially, the idea is to concatenate keys to the attributes in a single field in the upload. Interesting idea, I'll mull it over.... Lots of people wanting attributes. I now have a client using them, so it might come to a head pretty soon.... Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loxly Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 This is part of what I want to discuss with you :) [no external urls in signatures please, kthanks] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langers Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Tim, did u ever get chance to implelent this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langers Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gheffron Posted March 5, 2004 Share Posted March 5, 2004 For other community members: this is available now. Newest versions of Easypopulate allow for attributes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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