Update attributes via mass data maintenance

Via the “Asynchronous bulk updates” tab of the “Product data update” app you can maintain attributes for a larger number, whereby the attribute values are identical for all the products. This chapter explains this using a simple example. In this example, new attribute values are assigned to the attributes “DT704 Devicetype (DT704)”, “BM704 Bodymaterial (BM704)” and “BS704 Breadslots (BS704)”, whereby the attributes are maintained on the product level and the english data locale level. The relevant products are called up via an existing search favorite.

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Detailed information about how to use the “Asynchronous bulk updates” tab of the “Product data update” here. And a list of the required rights you can find here.

Select products

In this step, the relevant products are called up via the corresponding search favorite:

  1. Call up the “Product data update” app and go to the “Asynchronous bulk updates” tab where the slider “Search” is active.
  2. From the language menu in the header, select the option “English” so that the mass data maintenance is done on the english data locale level.
  1. From the “Retrieval level” menu, select the option “Product”, so that the selected attributes are maintained on the product level.
  2. Tick an “Advanced search” checkbox to activate the advanced search.
  3. From the “Search favorite” menu, select the corresponding search favorite. In this case it is “Searchfavorite 3” that caputures all the products from the primary taxonomy category “Toaster” where the value of the attribute “Item description (ItemDesc)” contains the word “Toaster”.
  4. From the “Search mode” menu, select the option “ Comfort” in order to specify that the search captures products where a search term appears at a given position of an attribute value.
  5. Click on the NEXT button to proceed to the next slider.

Select the action

In this step, you select the action that is to be carried out in the process of the mass data update:

  1. Click on “Reset Update attribute values” to select this action.
  2. Click on the NEXT button to proceed to the next slider.
 

Select attributes

In this step, you select the attributes that are to be updated:

  1. Select the first attribute:
    1. Use the text search above the left column to filter the list of attributes by a search term.
    2. Transfer the attribute from the left column to the right column in order to select it. To do so, click on the attribute.
  2. Select the remaining attributes.
  3. Click on the NEXT button to proceed to the next slider.

Enter attribute values

In this step, the attribute values are entered:

  1. Enter the various attribute values in the respective input fields.
  2. Click on the NEXT button to proceed to the next slider.

Carry out the update

The last slider shows a summary of the entered attribute values as well as the number of affected products. At this point, the update of the product data is carried out:

  • Click on the UPDATE button to trigger the updating of product data. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.

The mass data maintenance is now completed.