Edit many products at once
For a change across a set of products, acting on a selection in the grid is faster and safer than a round trip through a file.
A typical case: your supplier feed created 600 fittings with no family, so none of them has a completeness value and none shows a name in the grid. Assigning the family to all 600 in one action fixes both, and measures them in the same call.
Select the products
- Go to PIM › Products.
- Narrow the grid down to exactly the set you want. The grid offers a search on SKU or name, a Family filter, the category tree, Kind and Status in the rail, and three ready-made queues: Never measured, Without a family and Disabled.
- Select all matching rows.
Apply the change
The grid offers three actions on a selection:
| Action | What it does | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Assign family | Sets the family and measures completeness in the same call. Values already stored on the products stay; attributes the new family does not list are no longer required or shown. | A product that already had a family is re-measured against the new one. |
| Add to category | Files the selection in one category at a chosen sort position. The membership is hand-picked, so a rule recompute never removes it. | Removing is per product, from the product or the category. |
| Recompute completeness | Measures every selected product against its family's required attributes. A product with no family is reported as failed. | Nothing is changed on the product except the score. |
When to use a file instead
Bulk actions set the same thing on many products. When each product needs a different value, say 800 products each getting their own weight, that is an import.
The same round trip covers what the grid has no action for: an attribute value
across a selection, or switching a set of products on or off. Select Export
on the filtered grid, change the column in the CSV, and import it again. The
import is keyed on sku, so the rows update in place.
Rule of thumb: same family or category for all → bulk action. Anything per product, or any attribute value → export, edit, import.
Rules instead of repetition
If you find yourself repeatedly filing whatever matches a condition in the same category, you want a rule-based category instead. It applies itself, including to products that arrive later.