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    Price Group Tedium

    Why is it that creating a price group for all products in the store requires products to be added one by one. I only have 200 products and it makes me blind with rage to confront this illogical obstacle. Pity the store with several thousand products.
    Bill Dunn
    SunCam, Inc.
    http://www.SunCam.com
    [email protected]

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    Re: Price Group Tedium

    Originally posted by SunCam View Post
    Why is it that creating a price group for all products in the store requires products to be added one by one. I only have 200 products and it makes me blind with rage to confront this illogical obstacle. Pity the store with several thousand products.
    You could just use the select all feature of any batch screen. It's Control + A or Command + A on a mac

    http://www.miva.com/miva9-tips-and-tricks

    The down side to the system as I remember is that if you add more products you will need to remember to add them to the price group.
    Last edited by Mark Hood; 09-19-15, 07:02 AM.
    Mark Hood
    Vermont Gear

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      #3
      Re: Price Group Tedium

      It's Control + A or Command + A on a mac
      Yes, you can select all but you still have to click the switch one by one to add them and , yes, it would be particularly nice to have a setting that allowed ALL new products to be added to the price group as they are added to the store.
      Bill Dunn
      SunCam, Inc.
      http://www.SunCam.com
      [email protected]

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        #4
        Re: Price Group Tedium

        Originally posted by SunCam View Post
        Yes, you can select all but you still have to click the switch one by one to add them and , yes, it would be particularly nice to have a setting that allowed ALL new products to be added to the price group as they are added to the store.
        You're missing a step...
        Select All then click the + icon (assign records) It will change all the toggles
        selectall-toggle.jpg



        I do agree on your second part though
        Last edited by Mark Hood; 09-19-15, 09:08 AM.
        Mark Hood
        Vermont Gear

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          #5
          Re: Price Group Tedium

          So there is no flat file import to assign these?
          Leslie Kirk
          Miva Certified Developer
          Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
          Previously of Webs Your Way
          (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

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            #6
            Re: Price Group Tedium

            Thanks Mark! You're right. I missed the + icon.

            I only use price groups for one purpose, to give myself a 100% discount on all products. One of the steps in adding a new product is to add it to the price group so an "Include All Products" feature would be great. I imagine that the majority of price groups used in other stores would also benefit from such a feature.
            Last edited by SunCam; 09-19-15, 10:34 AM.
            Bill Dunn
            SunCam, Inc.
            http://www.SunCam.com
            [email protected]

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              #7
              Re: Price Group Tedium

              Originally posted by lesliekirk View Post
              So there is no flat file import to assign these?
              I asked that too, Leslie. Brennan gave me an answer for an xml import and Kent Multer can create a module, if it helps. Here's the thread:

              http://extranet.miva.com/forums/prin...9&pp=10&page=1

              Jamie
              Jamie Donaldson
              JSDVS Web Design / Development
              Web Design | Web Development | E-commerce Design & Integration

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                #8
                Re: Price Group Tedium

                Thanks Jamie!
                Leslie Kirk
                Miva Certified Developer
                Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                Previously of Webs Your Way
                (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                Email me: [email protected]
                www.lesliekirk.com

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                  #9
                  Re: Price Group Tedium

                  We use Wieland's Price Group Manager to do this and it works great. We don't have to do anything. It just automatically assigns all products to our 5 default price groups. PLUS, you can do so many other things with Price Groups.

                  http://apps.miva.com/price-group-manager.html
                  Brandon Lubbert
                  Library and Educational Services

                  A wholesale company for churches, day care providers,
                  homeschools, libraries, missionaries, resellers and schools!


                  www.libraryanded.com

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                    #10
                    Re: Price Group Tedium

                    Originally posted by blubbert View Post
                    We use Wieland's Price Group Manager to do this and it works great. We don't have to do anything. It just automatically assigns all products to our 5 default price groups. PLUS, you can do so many other things with Price Groups.

                    http://apps.miva.com/price-group-manager.html

                    And, this works with MM9 and the new price group features built into MM9?

                    I am asking because I've asked about import/export for the price and availability group's products and customers on the thread within my post to Leslie above, plus tried to find answers on other threads on the forum, and got no other solutions, and this module was never mentioned either. Just wondered why.

                    Jamie
                    Last edited by jsdva; 09-21-15, 11:05 AM.
                    Jamie Donaldson
                    JSDVS Web Design / Development
                    Web Design | Web Development | E-commerce Design & Integration

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                      #11
                      Re: Price Group Tedium

                      Someone with more knowledge than myself might be able to chime in here, but we have Miva 9.0004 and haven't had any problems with the module since converting to Miva 9. It works beautifully for us. We use price groups a lot.

                      That being said there is always the chance you may want to do something different with price groups that we do.
                      Brandon Lubbert
                      Library and Educational Services

                      A wholesale company for churches, day care providers,
                      homeschools, libraries, missionaries, resellers and schools!


                      www.libraryanded.com

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                        #12
                        Re: Price Group Tedium

                        Thanks for the reply Brandon! It sure does sound promising. We set up our price and availability groups up within 9.0004. I imagine they are pretty standard to what those groups were used for previously.

                        If anyone has any reason that the module wouldn't work for the import/export of those groups, products or customers, I'd sure like to know.

                        Jamie
                        Last edited by jsdva; 09-21-15, 12:46 PM. Reason: spelling
                        Jamie Donaldson
                        JSDVS Web Design / Development
                        Web Design | Web Development | E-commerce Design & Integration

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                          #13
                          Re: Price Group Tedium

                          Okey, dokey...still looking for a concrete answer. Will this module work with the MM9 price groups without any issues?

                          I'd really like to know, since a client is interested in it.

                          Jamie
                          Jamie Donaldson
                          JSDVS Web Design / Development
                          Web Design | Web Development | E-commerce Design & Integration

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                            #14
                            Just encase someone else wants a fairly straight forward way to assign products to different price groups, you can use the CONCATENATE function in excel to add a code PG10_ to the product name which is then searchable from within the price groups, import and assign, then remove the code using the find and replace and re import, pretty quick, and I see the SKU field is also searchable so you could use that field perhaps for a more permanent record
                            Steve Gerard
                            www.flyshop.co.nz

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