Hello, this is Franck from Sitolog. So today, I'm not
going to cover a classic tutorial, it's more of a method. The method for creating a new catalog from scratch
. So we're not going to go into every detail, every technical aspect,
every option of each tool. For that, I'll refer you more to the
tutorials dedicated to these tools. For example, I've used Magic Edit several times, but I
'm not going to explain how to use Magic Edit in the slightest detail. For that,
go see the Magic Edit tutorial. So we're going to create a new catalog as if, well,
you were starting from a blank sheet of paper. So here, I'm starting with an installation of a
Prestathop 1.7 from memory. That's it, 1.72 in which I've already created four stores
in two different store groups. I've also installed French and English.
So we're in multilingual mode and then, uh, during installation, well, Prestashop
installed women's and men's categories by default, and I had to create a
promotion category for a previous tutorial. So if I really wanted to start from scratch, I would have to start
by, for example, selecting everything, going to my products, displaying them, and deleting them.
So there, I display all my products, I do all, I do group action, and I click on
delete. That deletes all my products, my combinations, and everything that goes with them. Well, I
'm not going to do that because I'd like to keep the products for a car, but basically, you
can start by doing that. Once you've deleted all your products, you go back
to your category and there you select all the categories below the home page.
You check that you have the recursive button pressed, which means
that the subcategories of this one are also selected. Do group action, delete, and we
no longer have any categories. We're starting with a really, let's say, blank site. So once
that's done, let's imagine that here in home, I want to create my
category structure first before creating my products. So for this example, we're going to start with
a car parts sales site. So we're going to sell parts for different
brands, Peugeot, Citroën, Renault and we're going to sell body parts, brakes,
engines, engine parts and so on. And then also special parts for each
model. So we're going to have different levels of hierarchy to create. What I'm
proposing is to create categories for the brands Peugeot, Citroën, Renault in which
we're going to create categories like body or brake and then the car models,
we're going to manage them through the characteristics of the products and not through categories. So
we start by taking home. We're going to create so we have the first level of category so Peugeot,
Citroën, Renault. So for that, I click on new here opposite home and I'm going
to ask it for three categories. So I put three here. This is the field that allows me to create
names, uh, to build names if you want. So I can, for example, put a
generic name like category. A hyphen, uh, followed by the name of the store with something else,
blah, blah, uh, the name of the category itself which is added, then the identifier. Finally, we can build
quite complicated things like that. Well, I'm going to make it much simpler. I'm just going
to put nothing at all at the beginning. I'm just going to put "voila" category with the identifier at the end.
So, I'm going to ask it to put the same value as the final name in my title tag.
Well, it's not really necessary, come on, I'm not doing it. And associate only with the default store
or associate with all stores. So, I'm in multi-store, here, I only have one
selected, but I would like to create my structure in all my stores. So,
I would like to work identically. At this point, I will check this to work in
all four stores at the same time. Important, I can ask him from the start to associate my
categories to my different customer groups. So that's interesting, it avoids having to do it
later. So I'm going to leave this option checked. I can activate or not activate
the new categories from the start. I advise you not to do that. It's better to activate them en masse
at the end when everything is filled in. And there you go. So I have my number 3 and I create it. So
that's sent to Pressashop. It's Pressashop that does the creation. I click OK, it's finished.
And normally, here we have our three categories that have been created. Category 41,
42, 43. So, right away, after doing that, in fact, I select one and I go to the
category sheet and I display the data for this category. Why? Because right away,
I'm going to change the names of my categories and I'm going to use this. So, I could do it
in the table at the top like this. I can very well edit here and call this one Peugeot.
That works too, but I actually prefer to come here and work in the form for this
part. In fact, I use the form for names and descriptions and possibly
fields, and you'll see that the fields are a little smarter. So here, I enter
the name of my first category. I make sure I'm in automatic save mode. I
click next. It automatically saves my modification. It comes to the second. There,
I type the name of my second category. I click next, I type the name of my third.
There you go. I can also work on my translations at the same time as I do that. So
all I have to do is switch to the previous language or the next language. So here I
go from French to English. So in English it's also called Renault. Well, at the same time,
you're going to tell me the name of the category, translate it from Renault to Renault, it doesn't
really make sense. It's the same thing. Citroë will be the same, Peugeot will be the same. So
to translate the names, actually I'm not going to do it there, I'm going to do it here in the translation
category. I think it's more relevant. So I go here in the translation category. There
I see that I have prefilters. Only show translations of the selected stores. No,
I'm going to remove it. I'm going to work in all the stores. I display and there
I see the translation of my name possibly my simplified also of my Renault category
in the different languages ​​and different stores. Here you have the store number,
here you have the language and you see that well obviously it was called 443 in all these
stores and all these translations. So, to fill in all these translations directly,
just right-click where I wrote Renault. So, you don't see it, it's
at the very bottom. It's called pasting Renault in the entire column. So, I click and it tells me
that it will copy Renault there, the yellow cell in the dark gray cells. I continue. And there you go,
it's finished, it's translated. I have the same name everywhere. So, I can do that on Citroën too.
I click on Citroën here, I click here. Citroën, copy Citroën everywhere. Continue and
that's it. While I'm at it, Peugeot. So I made a bit of a Big Mac earlier.
Copy and paste.
That's it, that's it for the translations, at least for the names. I'm going back to my in my
form here and I'm going to this time it's going to be difficult to do otherwise than type
by hand but I'm going to enter my description. This is a category et cetera. Type what
you want. Okay. We're going to be a little more specific. Spare part of the
Peugeot brand.
And then I'm going to do the same thing with my tab.
So part,
excuse me for my English, that's probably not how we say it. It's placement part.
So there you go. So there, I translated and I entered a description for a category. I'm going back
to my French. So, I'm going to have to do the same thing in my different brands. So,
I can do different things, well, I can do different ways. I can do
a copy-paste selection. Okay, but I can also be a little smarter.
There, I see that I have my description here. I can very well copy it onto my three lines
here and then replace the word Peugeot with something else. That's useful if you have a lot
of brands. So here, I'm doing it for three,
it may not seem relevant, but if you have about fifty brands, you'll see that you'll save time. So I can do it here,
but here I'm only going to do it in one language if I do it at the top. So I'll do it again
in the translation concept. In fact, I'm going to select my
three categories in all languages, in all stores. And here, you see, I have
my description. So, I'm going to copy this description in French into the three categories
in French. So, I'm going to filter on the language. So, I'm doing a pre-filter. I'm going to remove display
all languages. There, I only have French. So French, why? Because it's my
language that I chose here. So I only have French. Here I take my value Peugeot detached
and so on. Peugeot spare part. I right-click. Still the same, it's at the very bottom.
And I copy everything. So there I have I copied this everywhere. So there's just the word Peugeot that
I don't like since there we have Peugeot. There we have Renault and so on. That was Citroën. So
I just have to replace the word Peugeot with the word Citroën. So here we can do it here with Magic
Edit. For example, I'm going to select so I don't know which category I'm in anymore that
I'm in 41. We're going to take Renault. So Renault is 42. I'm going to take this one.
I'm going to select all my lines here. I'm going to right-click and I'm going to launch,
you don't see it either, a tool called Magic Edit in all the
selected cells. So here, I'm running Magic Edit only on these cells. I'm
not going to delete, I'm not going to add, I'm just going to search for replace. And with Magic Edit,
I'm going to tell it to look for Peugeot and replace it with Renault.
I'm going to apply. It didn't find it. I must have mistyped it. I'm going to cancel. Sorry, I forgot
to check here. There. So it can't find it. Apply. There. Four operations done.
Save and it's done. I'm doing the same thing here. I take these four cells. Right click. Magic
Edit. In the selected cells, I'm replacing Peugeot this time with, so it must
be Citroën. I apply, I save, it's done. There. And of course, I can do this for the
description, I can do this for the metal titles, the meta descriptions, in fact, all the
text columns. So very quickly, we can fill in our descriptions,
our names, in fact all our SEO fields and customize them according to the categories. So,
in the same way, I'm now going to create subcategories in Peugeot, Renault and
Citroën. But I'm not going to do it three times, I'm going to do it once. I'm going to do it in
Peugeot and then I'm going to duplicate my three subcategories in Renault and Citroën. So,
I select Peugeot and I start again. I create three subcategories. I give them
a translation, a name, and so on. So I do that and I'll come back to you in a moment. There you go,
3 minutes later. I created three categories in Peugeot: bodywork,
brake, engine. I gave them a description of the type body part, brake part,
engine part. Then, I went to category translation. I displayed by
selecting these three lines and I copied this line here into these four. This one
into these four. Same for the other three, the same for the names. And so,
I ended up with my three categories documented in two different languages ​​in
four different stores. Very good. Now that I've done that,
what do we see? What? Sorry, what do we notice? Excuse me. We notice
that we haven't yet filled in the fields and the jumps like meta description and title tags.
So, a fairly common technique that allows you to go very quickly is to not
Take the lead and copy the category name into the title list and
the description into the meta description. Often, we put the same thing as a value or almost. So, I might as well do
that and do it quickly. So, for that, I select all my categories. So,
this is to be done in my opinion at the end, eh, when we're really finished. But I can do it here
to show you. I go to my column, for example, meta description. I right-click.
I launch Magic Edit once again in all the selected cells. And this time,
I don't want to use search and replace, I'm going to use the column copy tool. Add the
contents of another column line by line. There you go. So I take that and remember,
I want to copy my description into my meta descriptions. So here I choose description.
This is to choose as it appears on the screen, etc. It doesn't matter here
for the operation we perform in front or at the end, it won't change much and I don't put
an opening separator and I apply. It tells me that it has performed six operations and
you see in my meta description retrieved my category description. I save closed. This
time I do exactly the same thing in my column balist title. Right click magic edit.
add the continue other columns. And this time, I'm going to take the name of my category.
I apply, I check anyway before saving. That's it. I save, we won't talk about it anymore. There you go.
Like that, in a few moments, you will be able to fill your different columns which are, let's
say, which accept identical content. Then, what are we going to do? Well, we're going to take
these three categories here, our tree structure and we're going to duplicate it in Renault and in Citroën.
Why? How are we going to do that? So, it will be done here in the target category. So, I click
on this tab, we might move it. So, I click on the box here to have
more space. I go down in my tree structure. Here, I have my two categories called target,
Peugeot and Citroën. This is the one I want to copy something in. Here on the left, I
select my categories called source. This is the one I want to copy and I use the
button, don't make a mistake, which allows you to duplicate. So this one allows you to move and this one
allows you to duplicate. So there you go, I click here. So I have duplication options that
appear. I don't know if I can move it. I can't show you everything. I'm sorry. I ca
n't move it. So we'll do it like this. Don't move. Hop. There you go. At least,
I can show you some of it. So we'll leave the options as they are by
default, especially the first one. Here it's a recommended one, I'll leave it too. It will copy
to all the stores. I can duplicate different things at the same time as I
duplicate my category. So customer group associations. Yes, I'll leave it.
Product visibility. So I can leave that unchecked. I haven't created any products yet. Otherwise,
if I wanted the products to be copied at the same time, I'll check this option.
Discounts, so I don't have any for now, so I'll remove them. Scene assignments,
I don't have any either, so I'll remove them. I'll save time. We don't really care about statuses
. And then the last thing in the database is the photos. So, I forgot, we haven't
taken the photos yet, let's say. Maybe I could have taken them before cloning. That way, we'll
save even more time because, yes, maybe we want to put the same photos in
these three categories. So, it's the last option down there. Anyway, I'm cloning.
There, that's it. There, I just recentered the screen. Now, if I go down here,
we can clearly see that in Renault and in Citroën, I have identical clones of bodywork,
brakes and engine here and the same ones again here. So, let's imagine that you have about
fifty brands, well, in one click, you will duplicate your three categories, or even more.
Because this was just an example, but you could have about ten categories in
each brand. So duplicate them in the other brands. And you could have done that too for
a more complex tree structure. That is to say, here I only have one level, but if in bodywork
I had subcategories, well, when I duplicate bodywork, it also duplicates the
subcategories and the sub-subcategories, in fact, the entire branch. So the idea is to create
a branch only once, regardless of the level, the number of levels, excuse me, and then
duplicate it as many times as necessary in the other parts of your tree structure.
And if ever, for example, in the descriptions or the metadescription, you used the name
of the brand, for example, instead of having marked here bodywork part,
I had marked bodywork part of the Peugeot brand. At that point, you'll use Magic
Edit in the other brands to replace the word Peugeot with, for example, the word
Renault in this column and then in the other column here. We just saw that I forgot to
process the photos. I should have done it before, it would have been more efficient, right? I could have
associated a bodywork photo with my bodywork category, with that of a brake for the brakes,
a brake, an engine photo for the engines. And then when I duplicate my categories,
well, the photos can be duplicated with it. But that's okay, we can do it after
and we can do it in bulk. The whole point of Merlin is that you have different methods
and great flexibility to work with. So for example, let's suppose that I now associate
a bodywork photo or a headlight, for example, with my bodywork category, therefore with this one, but I
would also like to have it in the other brands. So for that, I'm going to select all my
bodywork categories, but I'm not going to do it manually, I'm going to do it automatically,
especially if I have about fifty. So for that, I right-click and I'm going to use a
very important Merlin function called filtered selection. This allows me to
automatically select all the categories or all the products according to a filter of your choice. So
my filter can be of different types, equal, contains, etc. So equal works very
well for me. Equal because that's the word I clicked on. I validate. So there, all my
bodywork-type categories are selected. I just have to associate the same
photo with them now. So for that, I go to my category image tab and here I'm going to drag the photo
I want to associate. So I open my file explorer. There, I take a photo. For example,
this one, it's not that one. There, this one. I take it and I drag it. So Merlin
has prepared a list of files for me to send. In fact, since it's the same photo three times,
it's only going to send it to me once. So we'll save time. But above all, it's going to associate it with my
three categories here 44 50. There you go. So I just have to send it by clicking on the send button. Here
the transfer is done. So the image is sent once. Then for the other two
lines, there's simply an association that is made. When it's finished, here we see the
little new logo that appeared if you were already in display mode. Otherwise, you click
on display and you can see the three photos associated with my three body categories.
And what's more, you can replace a photo, right? Just drag a photo over
another, whether it's here, sorry, directly here, I take another photo, I can
replace it. Or the same in the category sheet. Here, if I take a photo, I drag it here, it
asks me if I'm going to replace it or not. There you go. So before moving on to creating the products,
there's one last thing to deal with, which is the simplified URL. Here, we still have the simplified URLs
that were created by Merlin when I created the categories. So, for that, there's a technique
Quite simple, but I'm going to show it to you in two different ways. So, the first way
is to select all the categories here and then go to group action and click on
rebuild URL. And there, it will offer me to do it in the current language or in all
languages. Okay, that's great, we'll do it in all languages. However, you'll see, it
's still incomplete because although I have my simplified URL that appears here and seems correct,
if I go to translation category and I display all my translations for all the stores,
I realize that my URL here, you see, it's only good in one store, only
in store one, because currently, I'm only working in store one. So,
I could do as I showed you earlier, namely take my value here,
select my lines, copy, select this one, select the lines, copy and
so on. Okay, however, it's a bit long. So, I wanted to show you another
alternative technique that saves even more time. So, it consists of selecting
all the stores in the shops like this and clicking on multi-store modification here. And
then, I link the categories. So here, we will work in a particular mode where we have
our categories that are displayed in the same way, but when we make a modification in
one of them or several of them, at that moment, the modifications will be filled,
will be made in all the stores that I have selected here. So there, it's all of them but
it may have any selection of stores. So I will do the same operation.
Select all my categories or only the one I want to modify of course. I do a
group action rebuild the URL in all languages ​​and there I know that I am really working
in all the languages ​​of all the stores. So if I go to categorical translation, I
do display, I go back to my categories. You see now I have my simplified URLs
, but it's not this one where they are, here to search for my Renault Peugeot categories, etc.
You see, I have simplified them in all languages, in all stores. So,
after completing this first part of the tutorial, I realized
that there was actually a much simpler method that I
would like to show you now when you are in multi-store mode. This method consists of not creating your categories or your products by
selecting all the stores, but creating them in only one of the stores. Then, in
a second step, when the categories are created, activating these products or these categories
in the other stores. So we're going to do an example. I'm going to come back to my category.
So here, I've selected only one store. I'll come back. So, we're going to reread
the first level. I'm going to reselect one of the categories, for example Peugeot
, and I create my category. So, as before, new, say association only
to the default store of the parent category. That's what's important for the category
to be created, that in my category one, I give it a name. Okay, SIMK pieces, a
brand that no longer exists. We're going to create a single category. I'm going to try to go fairly quickly. I
'm going to create. There you go, my category is created somewhere here. Simka, I just have to, let's say
personalize it, eh, change its name to French, to English. We're going to enter a description.
I'll quickly fill in its SEO field, its simplified URL. You do, you can
also do it here, eh. So it fills the field from the name from this button. Then
when you've finished filling in your data in store one, you just have to come
here and check either category by category, or in bulk, we can do it on several
nil at the same time. So check in the stores in which you want the
product to exist as well. For example, you want it to exist in the 3rd. Okay, let's say all of them.
So I'm going to check them all. And at that point, when you check, you associate the category
or the product with the stores. In fact, the data from store one, which is the default store
defined here, will be copied to the other stores. And so, you don't need, as
I showed you before, to work in all the stores at the same time, and so on, to
find sometimes somewhat complicated techniques to do this work. You work
in a single store, and when everything is finished, you make the association. So, what
is copied from one store to the others when you click on the association? Well,
that's defined in the control panel here in the tab called association. Here,
you see, when associating a product, copy the following data. So there, you
define everything that is copied from store one to the others for the products, and then
you have the same thing for the categories when associating a category with a store.
So here, you don't really have a choice, but it's checked by default. Copy the description,
URL, name, photos, etc., and you can also unlink. So when you unlink,
you can also configure what is removed from the store, uh, associates,
for example, here for the products. There you go. So there, simply by checking, normally my
product exists in all the stores with the same data. We can go check
here, for example, in category. So for that, I first need to select all the
stores. What I'm going to show you is that the product exists everywhere now.
Not the product, the category, excuse me, the SIMK category, where is it Peugeot?
So here we have the different stores with the different languages, and you can see
that all the data, the name, the fields are filled in in my four stores
simply with an association click, so a fairly significant time saving in this case.
So that works for the categories but also for the products. We're
now going to create the products. So I go to product view. In my control panel,
I'm going to start by putting myself in multi-store mode like this, which allows me to
create products in all the stores at the same time. And especially when I make a
modification, well, it will be taken into account everywhere thanks to this
multi-store modification option. So, once again, this saves time in this type of context.
If you want to differentiate your products by store, you take only one at a
time or two and then there you go, you work by group of common stores. Then,
all I have to do is choose in which category I want to create my products. Let's suppose that I want
to create several products in my bodywork, brake, etc. categories. Well, I
might select them. Select several at once. So, I'm going to take these three.
I go to my product view, my product table and I have a button here called new. And this
new button allows me to specify the number of products I want to create. If, for example,
I create four, it actually tells me that I have three categories selected.
So it will create a total of 12 products for me. And then here I will specify the parameters
for creating my products. So we will save time, we will do it in a nutshell.
For example, I can choose a brand for them, I can choose a supplier for them, I can
already give them a purchase price, a weight. So, you will not fill everything out, not it is necessary,
but often at least you will define the tax rate here and the tax rule group for
example 1%. You will define whether the prices are visible or not, whether the product is orderable
or not. Visibility is often in both and so on. You can define a
stock from the start, an availability date if necessary. There you go. So quite a few
basic parameters that will be filled out once and for all, once and for all, excuse me,
will be filled in upstream. You won't need to fill it in afterward. The most important
parameter is this one. Do you want the products to be activated
as soon as they are created or later? I often advise you to uncheck activate so that
you create the products and only activate them en masse at the end of your creation process.
Here you have three fields with options to fill in the name column and to
give your products a name built from several pieces of information. So you have three
free fields: start, end, middle, and end of your string. You can include the brand in
the name. You can include the category name in the product name, as well as its ID.
So we'll stick with something fairly basic. I'll mark prod with a
dash. and then its number after it. There you go. And then I create my products.
So it creates my 12 products.
Here it flashes to tell me that the table needs to be refreshed. I refresh. I've put
12 products that have been created. So of course, a lot of things are missing, eh, I haven't specified
much so far, but here, I'm going to work in the same way as the method
I showed you for creating products. That is to say, I'm going to take my first product,
I'm going to go to the file, I'm going to activate the display and then there, well, I'm going to modify
its name blah blah. I'm going to work finally I'm going to activate the automatic saving to move on to the
next product. change its name. Maybe before finally working like that name by name,
I'm also going to product by product in fact type a name and at the same time I'm going to enter my
summary so in the HTML editor that you have there. So I remind you that this editor is
the CK editor which is a famous editor made for the web that we integrated into Merlin. And
this editor here is customizable. So here, you have by default the full version which is
which is activated. And if you go to the control panel, put all that in display. Here,
you see that you can switch to simpler versions of the editor. You have the
standard version with a lot fewer options but already some pretty useful tools. You can
already do formatting and so on. A lot of practical stuff, and then here's a basic version.
So if you work, for example, with subcontractors or interns,
I don't know, and you want to give them a really basic tool to enter your descriptions or
modify them, you can configure the editor in this mode. I still recommend that you
work in the full version of the HTML editor. Why? Because in
the full version, excuse me. Here, in the full version, we have access to the CSS.
CSS of your page. So, I don't really have any, but the CSS or the styles,
if you prefer, the style sheets, uh, that's what allows your website
to stand out from the others. So you will be able to directly view your texts,
your descriptions, your summaries here, really with exactly the same look as on your real site.
Also know that it is important that you have a source button here which
allows you to view the content in two different formats. In fact, in the default format,
if for example I put a title tag here, well we have what is called wick,
that is to say that we see on the screen the effect of the formatting. When we are in source mode,
at that moment, what we see is the HTML code with the tags. So that is interesting
especially if for example you copy and paste from internet pages or from an
HTML editor and you directly retrieve raw code at that moment you will come here in
source mode to do your pasting eh. If you paste it here in Wiwig mode, you risk
having some weird things and your tags which are not taken into account. So depending on the
format of the imported text, I would say, switch to source mode, or on the contrary, stay in Wiwick mode.
And so as for the categories, well, you're going to use, you're going to mix,
the use of the tab sheet here or the translation table which also exists here for the products
to display your translations of your different products in the different stores, in
the different languages ​​and enter your URLs, your meta descriptions, your meta keywords if you want,
the names and so on and especially copy and paste. So you're going to work in
bulk to avoid doing the same thing again, for example, between stores and then differentiate
your content according to your languages. So either here, or I come back to the tab sheet here
with the next language, previous language button which allows you to switch from one language to another,
to save the content at the same time and therefore to enter your translations. So, when
you've filled in your names and summaries in the different languages, you're going to save a lot
of time. It's like for the categories, you're probably going to want to duplicate
in your columns, uh taglist, title and meta summary, meta description, excuse me. There you go.
Uh, so in meta description, you're going to take the summary and you're going to copy it into
meta description and you're going to take the product name to copy it into the title tag. There we
're really going to save a lot of time with that. So I remind you of the technique, it's simple.
For example, you put it in meta description, you right-click, you launch Magic Edit.
So either in the entire column, or on only certain lines. So here, I'm going
to do it in the entire column. In Magic Edit, you choose the tool to add the content of another
column. You choose the original content. So I want to take my summary from meta
descriptions. So here, I choose summary. Going to do the opposite, eh, to confuse you.
summary, display in front, etc. with the default settings, it's fine.
And you apply and so on all my lines, when I have a summary that has been created,
it will be copied into my mion and if you like it, you save and then you do the same thing so
from the product name to the title tag. So right-click in title tag and you start again
with the difference, is that here you choose the name. There you go. So often after creating our
basic elements, name, summary, description, what we do is we work on the
visibility of the products. So visibility is also the notion of association. That is to say that for
example these products here these three products that I created, we select all three.
If I come here in my target category tab and I click on see association,
well I will be able to see here in secondary columns that these three products are associated
with the bodywork category. This is normal, I created them in this bodywork. In this
category, eh, it's both their default category in all stores and at the same
time a category in which these products are visible in the store. But it's quite
possible that your Peugeot bodywork products here, you would also like them to be
visible in the Peugeot category and maybe even in the homepage. Well, at that point,
just select them, sorry, not all of them but just homepage and Peugeot with a control and
come and click here there or there to automatically associate your products with these two other categories
while keeping them visible in the bodywork category. So quickly in bulk, you
will be able to manage your associations between your new products and your different categories.
The typical example for a car spare parts store is that sometimes
certain parts are common to several brands. So let's imagine that this product is
part of the Peugeot bodywork. So maybe it's not relevant for
a bodywork part. This one, sorry, these two products. So, these are then there is one
which is an engine part, the other a brake part. Uh and maybe these parts uh
They are also commonly used by Citroën because Peugeot and Citroën often, well, in fact,
we know that it's the same brand, right, at the start, it's the same group. So there are
common parts. Well, you can absolutely say, well, here, I select such and such
a part, such and such a brake from my Peugeot brand and I also activate it in my Citroën category
at the brake level because these are common parts. So, there is a second
method for creating products other than the new button. We're going to close that. It's the
duplication function. So you can very well start with, for example, a selection of products here
from a given category, go to grouped action and here you have a duplicate function. And so
this duplicate function will duplicate the selected products in their category, eh,
in the same categories and you have a choice to decide if this should be the case in all
the stores, in only the groups of stores that we have selected or only in
all the stores that we have selected in the control panel. And finally you have the
choice to duplicate the products with or without their images. Better, you can specify here the number
of duplicaters. So I selected three products. If I put four here, in fact my three
products will each be duplicated four times. So I will have a total of 12 products created at the same
time. So it's very quick to duplicate a large number of products with this tool. And once
you have duplicated, well all you have to do is customize them with the methods that we have seen.
So once your products are created or duplicated, well you will start to use this time
the mass modification tools to go faster. For example, if during creation
you forgot to define a manufacturer for them, you select your products. You go,
uh, in the manufacturer column here, you choose a manufacturer for one of them.
If all these products must have the same manufacturer, I select them, I make a copy,
that is to say, right-click, paste fashion here, this line there, paste fashion manufactur in
all the selected cells of this column. The last line, it would have copied
in the entire column. There you go. So quickly there, I fill in my manufacturers here. You can
use the bulk modification tool which is here to, for example, fill in the prices quickly.
Here I don't know my selling price I put all these products at 35 I highlight 35
I choose my selling price I do equal it tells me what it will do as a modification
I save and there it is my all my products are at 35 I will increase I can use the same
thing I can do 10% increase on the selling price so + 10% and there we go so
lots of tools like this you can also use the rounding function to round
the prices here for example. So they are at 3850. I will round them to the nearest currency. I click here,
I apply, it shows me the result. Oh sorry, yes, it was the selling price including tax
that I rounded. So my selling price excluding tax, it is indeed at 3833.
In addition to these calculation tools, you can use so we will we will hide it. You
can use the tools for mass modification of texts. So Magic Edit,
we have already seen it. And there it can go very far. Let's take the following example. You bought a
series of barcodes from the barcode sales company. There's only one organization
worldwide. I think it's called CGIS. So you bought a series
of barcodes, you want to implement it in your Prestashop database, enter it,
enter it, import it, or in fact you can use Merlin's barcode generator
. So for that, you select, it's always the same, a list of products.
You right-click, you launch Magic Edit in the selected cells and you go
to the bottom. Here you have added a barcode. You know the left part that was assigned to you,
so it's actually a code that is specific to your company. You know the first number here
from the left part of the first number of the first barcode that you were given. For
example this one. Then, it will increment from 1 to one in the majority of cases. It can be
something else but often it's one by one. and you apply it. And there, you see,
it filled my products with a series of barcodes that are completely compliant with the standard.
It even calculated the control bit on the far right. So you have barcodes here that
you can use on marketplaces with this method and you save if you like.
So, there's still a little work to do. For example, our products that we just created,
we didn't give them a photo. So at that point, you'll use the image variation tool,
then here the image sub-tab and you'll use this tool to give them
images. So of course, you could do it product by product, image by image and that's
the manual method which can still be quite long. But I would
then advise you to study, and there is a tutorial that explains this in detail. So, to study the
automatic association mode, which is here, which allows you to search a local folder or
a network for all the images in this folder to compare the name of the files in the folder with either
the product name, the product ID, its reference, or the barcode itself, in order
to have an automatic association, an automatic search for the images, uh, that go well for
each of the products. So by using this type of method, by having a, how to say, a
somewhat structured approach when you create your files, your photos, well, at that moment, you can
make a completely automatic association of all your photos with all your products. So in
a few seconds, you will have your entire list created. You select everything,
you click on send, and Merlin will send your photos, create thumbnails, and all the
work that is necessary on Prestash Shop in the background. So it will give you back control and
while it transfers all the photos, you will be able to continue creating other products,
sending other photos and so on. So no time wasted on processing photos with
this tool. So for that, I refer you once again to the tutorial on images. Uh, I
finished it very recently. Then, you will probably have other elements to create.
For example, maybe your products will have variations. So if there are variations,
well I advise you to use this variation generator. There too, there is a tutorial that
we have just put online on this subject. So with the generator, you can create variations
on lots of products at the same time. It is a multi-product generator. You will be able to create your
links between products and your suppliers. You will be able to define specific prices,
associate characteristics, define tags and so on. So at the beginning of the training,
I told you, we're going to take the example of a car parts website and we're going to manage the
models according to characteristics. So associate the parts with the different car models
using the characteristics. So I created a characteristic here that we call a model.
So I created it with the plus button. Here, I translated it and I created some values
​​here with the plus button in this table of the characteristics tab. So, I created the C3,
the C1, C2 and the C2. Now let's suppose that I'm going to associate my products, well, certain products,
with some of these characteristics. Well, for example, we're going to take a part. So, we're going to
go to category, we're going to take a brake part. We're going to see Peugeot brake parts.
Here. And then I'm also going to take Citroën brake parts. Citroën Renault Citroën, sorry.
There. A little more space. So here it is, Citroën brake and Peugeot brake with a control here.
So here, I have different parts. Maybe all these parts actually fit
both the 102 and the C2. They are two different brands but they use the same parts.
brake parts or just some. So, let's suppose I take these two. So,
these two parts are suitable for these two brands, sorry, these two car models here. So,
I select them both. All I have to do is click on the button here associate value
to automatically, you'll see, have my cross associations. So, in this case,
it doesn't work exactly as I wanted as I expected. Quite simply,
although I selected two values, it only associates one. Why? Because
currently this Prestashop is not configured for what we call multiple characteristics.
That is to say, multiple characteristics, it is a mode that allows you to have several values ​​of the
same characteristic associated with the same product. So by default, it is not activated at all, uh, in
Prestashop. In 1.7, you can activate it, it's an option. And in previous versions
of 1.7 1.74 even I believe at that time, you have to buy a specific module
called a multiple characteristic module to be able to associate several values. But basically,
in spare parts sites precisely, it is this type of module that we install or
function that we activate to be able to make multiple associations on our different parts.
That's it, I'll stop there. But basically, what I wanted to show you was a method
to create your categories and your products as efficiently as possible. Thank you, see you soon.