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So in this tutorial, we'll
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take a look
at creating your first product.
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So will apply some basic product details
such as descriptions and maybe an image
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whilst referring back to our storefront
quite a few times to see
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how any settings that we're changing,
see how they actually influence
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how that product will appear to those
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viewing your storefront.
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Okay.
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So we need to get to the product
management page, first of all,
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which is found under catalog products
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and product management.
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And the product management screen lists
all of the products that are currently
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added to your storefront,
because this is our basic demo
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that we're building
go past going through the tutorials.
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There is no products at the moment,
but I would display down here
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to create our first
product, we're going to go to add new
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the top of the screen
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This will bring up the create new product
window.
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This just requires you
to input a name for your product
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and then select the product type.
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Now, we haven't gone through
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the different types of product as of yet,
but we will in future tutorials.
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In this case, we're
just going to go for a stock product.
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So this is a type of product
which is not configurable.
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There's no associated artwork
or anything like that.
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It is essentially like a pick
and pack off the shelf
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product.
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And then once we've chosen
what we want to create,
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click the create icon.
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that will take us to the add
a new product page.
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And here we have loads
of different settings and capabilities
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to define our product.
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Now in this particular tutorial,
we're going to focus mainly
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on the product information tab,
which is here
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and a little bit of time on the pictures
tab which is here.
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All of these others and their capabilities
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will be focused on in other videos.
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Now what I'm going to do first
is actually just
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give this product an initial name.
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So I'll just go with my first product,
nice and creative,
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and then I'm straightaway
going to go with save and continue.
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Edit And there is a reason for this,
so save and continue.
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Edit Will save the product,
but then take me back to the same page.
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And what this means is that
I can now go on view
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product page over the top,
which wasn't there before,
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which will open up that particular product
as it appears on my storefront.
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And you can see that we've got our basic
product in place now. So
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there's a placeholder for an image.
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It's got our title,
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it's got some pricing information
which we've obviously not yet defined.
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And as we make changes to our product
description
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and product settings,
we'll see how the changes influence
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this screen.
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So we'll start off
looking through some of the major settings
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which are in this product information
section.
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First off, we have published
and most of these little icons will have
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some kind of description as to what
they are over on the left hand side.
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So we can check this
to publish this product.
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So that means it will be visible
within the storefront
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we can allow it
to show in the search results.
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So on your storefront,
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so if I go to just duplicate that
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and go to home, you can set this up
so it will be a search box.
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Now it's not in the default settings,
but we can make one.
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And when you perform a search,
it means that that product can be found
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using the search function.
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We have the ability
to show the product on the home page
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that basically makes this a featured
product, which will just be
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plastered onto the home page, basically.
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So we'll have a look at that now.
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So if I check that
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click save
and continue edit to apply those changes
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and then I'm
just going to refresh my home page
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and you can see that
product has now appeared on the home page
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as a featured product,
the home page display order.
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This basically just controls
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how much priority
the product gets in terms of positioning.
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So if there's more than one product
which is showing on the home page,
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if this is a zero or a one,
it means it will be displayed first.
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So to the left hand side
or to the top of the list, and the higher
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the number goes, the less priority
the products get.
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Moving a bit further
down in these settings,
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we have
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a number of selections to choose
between the rich and code mirror.
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This is this is just whether or not
you want to
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define certain descriptions,
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just using word processor type formatting
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or if you want to actually write code to
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really go into
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the intricate details
of formatting a particular description
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or body
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and these all link
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to these description boxes
further down the page.
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So you see we've got this full description
editor, full description,
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a additional description,
additional description
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and so on.
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And what I'm going to do
is just write a few descriptions in here
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with the name of what the description is,
just so we know
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that we've just so we know where
it's going to actually end up.
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So for example, I'll start off with
this is a short description
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of my
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first product.
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And then when I save that
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and refresh it
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on the storefront,
you can see where that actually appears.
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And I'm going to repeat that step
for all of these other description
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boxes.
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Okay. So with all those in place,
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oh, it's save and continue
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and then refresh my product
and we can see where those now appear.
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So we've got the short description,
we've got the full description,
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we've got the additional description
down at the bottom here.
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If I also refresh my home page,
you'll see that
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a couple of those descriptions
also appear on the home page.
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Feature products.
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So lots of details
and a short description.
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Now, as I mentioned earlier on
and as will be described in another video,
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you can use the rich editor
to format this text.
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So if you don't just want it
as basic text,
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you can put formatting in here
as well as things like images as well.
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But we'll leave this for now
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and then we have a
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few more product
settings towards the bottom of the screen.
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I'm not going to go through
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every single one of these,
but I'll focus on some of the
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primary options here.
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The first one being the product tax.
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So if I click on that, product
tags are keywords
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that this product
can also be identified by.
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So in this list here, if we already had
some tags associated with other products,
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they would appear in this area
where it says no category.
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And if we want to add some new tags,
we can add them in here
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with a comma, separate comma,
separating the different tags.
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Basically,
text can be used in multiple places,
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so they will appear on your actual product
page.
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That allows you to basically group
different types of products together.
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It gives you a way of doing that.
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So let's say, for example,
I had a demo as one of my tags.
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Any product which has a demo
would all be grouped together
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so I could see them all in one list.
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And it also means that
when you're performing searches,
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they are counted as keywords
for your searches as well.
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So again,
let's say there was demo in there.
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If I search for demo,
it will show me this product.
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So I'm going to put a few options in here.
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So stock, product and demo
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all comma separated and click. Okay,
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all three of those
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get applied.
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So now we'll save that.
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And again, I'm going to refresh my product
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and you can see that
those product tags are now visible.
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And if I click on one of those product
tags, you can see that there's an icon,
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same one next to each of them.
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That just means this one product
in each of those,
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if I click on there,
it will show me a list
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of all the associated products
with that search.
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What I consider
to be another critical property
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down here at the bottom
is this admin comment.
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Now, this
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isn't going to
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do anything
in terms of your storefront itself.
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This is just a very useful box for making
any notes on that particular product.
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Especially useful
if you might come back to it in a few
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months time, or if there's multiple users
working on the same storefront.
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It's just very, very useful
to make sure that you don't forget
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any critical information without having
to note it down in a separate file
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or have it visible
in your storefront, for example.
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So this anything typed in
this box is only visible to those
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who have the permissions
to edit a product.
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So who are
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an administrator?
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Okay.
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So the last thing we're going to do
for this particular tutorial
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is to apply an image to our product.
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So at the moment, as you've seen,
there's a placeholder for the image,
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but there is no actual image defined.
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So in our settings, if we go right
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across to the Pictures tab,
then all we need to do
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is to select the picture
we want to upload.
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So if I go for this mug, for example,
and then add product picture
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and that would work that image
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and I can do more than one
so I can upload another file.
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So I think I have another mock image here.
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And then I've also got control
over the display order,
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so the lower the better basically.
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So in this includes negative figures.
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So if anything is a lower number
than any other image
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that we have applied,
it means it will display that one first.
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So for example,
if I change this to minus three,
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so a fairly arbitrary number,
but if I now add for a picture,
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you can see that's
now gone to the top of the list.
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And what it means
is that when I apply these
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and when I go to view these on my product,
this picture should appear
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first.
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So let's save and continue.
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Go back to my product and refresh.
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You can see there that I've got two images
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which I can hover over to change.
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If I click on those,
it opens up a larger view
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and you can see the one
which had the lower
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display order number is the one
that's being displayed first.
