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Edit Products

Once you have selected a catalog from the [Catalog Editor] you can create, edit or delete products. A product represents a type of thing that you sell. For example a leather purse can be called a product.

Adding New Products

To create a new product or load an existing product you type in a product ID and press the "Add Product" button. Your product ID's should be URL friendly and should not contain spaces.

  1. Name - This is a name that you can use to refer to the product and will be used in the title part of your web page.
  2. ID - This will be used to create the URL to this product page. /store/products/someproduct.html
  3. Edit Product Description - This is an HTML description of a product.
  4. Edit Related Products - Allows you to associate two products together. This is used for cross selling.
  5. Upload Product Image - Allows you to several associate JPEG images with this product. Images will be renamed to be the same as the ID of the product. For example: /store/products/images/thumb/someproduct-100.jpg
  6. Properties - A property can be any things you like. You can also add a standard set of properties by adding a file named /store/configuration/pageproperties.xml

    <properties>
    <property id="misc" index="true" keyword="true"  >Some Value</property>
    </properties>

    index="true" Allows field level search using the Lucene misc:Value syntax to find all products with the word Value.

    keyword="true"  Allows this property to be full text searched along with other searches

  7. Handling Fee - Maps back to levels A, B, C, D and E. These are used to specify the level as defined in the [store.xml] file
  8. Shipping - The default will use the store.xml file to present a list of shipping options. Otherwise you can force a specific shipping option if a person orders one of these products.
  9. Sort Number - Controls the order that this product will show up in a list of products. The order can also be controlled by editing the .xconf file that is calling the Lucene search.
  10. Items - This is contain the [Item Editor] with inventory items that are associated with this product.