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As of right now, we have to able to edit 1 product at a time. The sites loads slow and spins when we have multiple pages open to edit different products. If we have the ability to bulk edit, it would very helpful.
This is a great idea that would save us a lot of time.
I needed to update the part # field for 415 products. This could have easily been done if we had the ability to export products and reimport, or perform bulk action requests right on the back end but instead was quoted $750 from Professional Services for them to export our product list, wait for me to give them the file back, and then reupload the file. If they charge $750 for a simple data file import then I can see why they wouldn't want to open up the ability to us admin users as that has to be a highly profitable revenue source for Professional Services section.
I have run into this many times, coming Marcom this is a pain point for me. They have a GUID for each product and if there isn't a GUID it creates a product. If there is any problems with any of the fields, reports error and doesn't import anything.
I just ran into this need today. We have a customer who has 65 inventory items and has decided to remove the ability to backorder them. This means that had to open 65 products, one at a time, and uncheck the Back Order Allowed box. It isn't a pleasant experience.
As a quick suggestion as to how this could be implemented, I imagine a page similar to the report tool.
The left area would be a list of products, with the right area being a list of the available fields. The user would select all products they want to update, as well as all fields they want to update, and then be presented with a table of the fields to update.
A save button at the bottom would initiate the save action just like a regular product.