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Originally Posted by Dom B
Hi Savajar,
I have had a look at the site and it looks very useful, I shall have to investigate further.
However managing a large store is one thing, organising a store and its product variants so it does not have to be big is another.
I want 20 product entries. and for those products I want to apply about 10 variant/price modifiers in 3 catagories. i.e. you would have a product page and on that page you have 3 drop down boxes with 10-12 choices in each box (could be cut down a bit by dynamic boxes) So I want my database to have 50 entries (20+10+10+10) in total to create all the products that I sell in all combinations.
However the way Xcart works is that each product would have a database entry for each combination of all variants which would be approx 20 x 10 x 10 x 10= 20,000. and if each picture is 150K then thats at least 3gb, even though the pictures will be repeats over and over in each catagory, so there are only 20 pictures that are different in the 20,000.
Does your softwares global product options just do this same easy copying or does it apply the global options as I need them making only a very small number of database entries?
I have contacted BCS and they told me that their global product options basicially is a product options copier that does all the leg work for you, so it would do nothing to cut down the size of the database, it just makes it easier to apply options to all your products.
They said they could custom code what I am after but they are booked up for several months.
So I am still stuck.
Dom B
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Dom
I understood from your initial request that you want like link 1 product option to multiple products (20k).
Store Manager has very easy product option copy.
It works like this:
1. Select product options for one product, press Copy button
2. Select multiple products(any or all) to apply these option to and press Paste button
thats it, can't be easier.
Anyhow it is still copying product options which multiply them.
One advantage of copying - if you will need to change option for PART of them - you are still free to do this since this is copy(not direct link which should be same for all linked)
I do realize that in your case this can be sort of problematic due to size restrictions.
I recommend give Store Manager a try by downloading free demo now, available from its website.