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Batch Tool for the Modification and Creation of Products | BG_073

In this section, the focus is on the powerful batch tool in Infigo for modifying and creating products in bulk. This tool allows users to export their product catalog into Excel or XML format, enabling easy mass updates or creation of products without needing to manually modify each one. The batch tool works by preserving product IDs for updates and leaving the product ID blank when creating new products, allowing Infigo to assign one. Additionally, users can add columns for assigning product attributes and uploading files such as images or PDFs in bulk using upload folders, making product management far more efficient. Full details on column headers and setup are available in the accompanying documentation.

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All right.

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So I think this one is quite important
and some of you may be unaware of it's,

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of its existence
or just how powerful it can be.

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And this is the ability
to actually utilize the batch tool

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for modification
and creation of products. So.

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If I go to my product management screen.

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And this will be available on the updated
UI as well.

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You have the ability to export
to Excel or export to XML.

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And exporting to Excel
will give you that entire

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catalog of products in an Excel format.

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So I can open that up.

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And you'll see there
that it's an incredibly large,

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number of rows

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or columns, rather, this particular

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spreadsheet that's exported,
because this is essentially giving you

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as many options as it can for things
that are specified on that product.

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So but one of the things that we very
briefly touched on during this webinar is

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going to be somewhere in this,
in this database.

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And what it means
is that you can mass update

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or mass create products

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without having to sort of manually create
every single one.

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So updating a product is nice and easy

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as long as you leave
the product ID intact,

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because that's the unique identifier
for a particular product,

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you can just change
whatever other of these details

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you like.

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If you want to

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create new products using this tool,
you don't have to have

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all the existing products in there
as well.

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By the way,
you can delete any lines of things

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you're not going to be changing just for,
let's say sanity checking purposes.

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If you don't want to touch
any particular products,

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you can remove all the lines
pertaining to those products. And,

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if you want to create new products,
you just add the information

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to a new line, just leave the product ID
empty because that will be assigned

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when the product
is actually created in Infigo.

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Now, many of you probably know that

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what you may not know
is that you do have the ability

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to add some other columns
to the end here as well.

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Now, unfortunately, I don't have a sort
of set up example of this,

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but it is generally columns
that allow you to assign

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separately created
resources to the product.

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So things such as product attributes,
you can assign those

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and then the main other things are

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uploaded files that you want to assign.

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So the same way in which we uploaded
that CSV to global additional data,

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there's an area in your Infigo platform

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which again you might need
to be separately enabled, which is called

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upload folders.

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And in those upload folders

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you can upload files

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and then reference them
from this particular thing here.

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And what that means
is that you can upload product images.

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You can upload static PDFs,

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you can upload invent mex files
if you want to as well,

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and a couple of other things en masse
without having to do them all

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independently, just by having them

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available somewhere in you
go in those upload folders,

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putting the reference
in a separate column.

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Here, the details of what

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the column headers need to be
is in all the documentation we have.

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And then it will put two and two together

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and it will create or update
those products with those resources.

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As part of it.

 

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