Hello everyone,
My store has many collections and each collection has several hundreds of products.
I sort these manually as such: from collections > sort: manual, then “view all”. Once all products loaded on a single page, I would use the browser search bar (CMD + F) to search, select & move the products using its name.
Today morning, I open the collections to do the same and lo and behold that “view all” button has been replaced by a page system (see photo). Imgur: The magic of the Internet
This is super frustrating especially because these constant changes keep making my job as a business owner difficult and wastes my time. First it was the change where in products you could select a lot of items then select bulk edit to change stock levels, that was removed a month ago, now this…
Please if someone could help me find a better way to find products via name and sort their order under a specific collection, I would owe them one.
TIA
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Hi @ghadiyalimustafa ,
This change in Shopify removed the “View all” option, so the quickest alternatives are:
- Use the search bar inside the collection to find products by name.
- Apply filters (vendor / tag / product type) to reduce the list before sorting.
- Keep Sort = Manual, then drag products after filtering.
- Optionally use temporary tags to group products and reorder faster.
For very large collections, using CSV export/import for manual sort order is the fastest method.
This is a terrible idea. So much of our inventory is manually sorted from outside the range of the available pages. The “quickest” alternatives are nobody’s idea of anything like quick. This was a quick, seamless, intuitive, functional mechanism that we had no complaints with and which our workflow depended upon. Where is the advantage for us? How is this better? Was there any consultation with anyone about this? Please change it back immediately or at least provide an option to view and edit as before.
This has caused my workload to almost triple since it launched. It doesn’t even make sense to add pagination because the load times are up to us when we hit view all. This needs to be reversed as soon as possible. 796 items and i have to page to the end and use the check box now. There isn’t even a last page button for new items. The search is not sufficient. CSV upload is an insane suggestion. How does this change help anyone even a little bit? Change is fine, if it serves an actual purpose.
This is the most unintuitive change that I have seen done by Shopify in at least a couple of months!
I do not expect that anyone tested manual collection sorting on anything more than 60 products, let alone those collections with 100, 200, or more products.
If you implement a change in a UI, provide an option to go back to the previous method - get user feedback when you change something - Provide an opt out.
The time now required for manual collection sorting has at least trippled.
The real issue is there’s not version freeze, to let merchants delay updates to not be in the middle of the work week. But everyone gets hung up on some specific change, so all the complaints are spread across thousands of a few people hollering into the void resenting any real actions being recommended.
Spreadsheets, there’s the api or ready made apps to streamline imports with collections creation/updating.
Take control of your information architecture don’t get stuck on a fancy admin UI.
The world ran on spreadsheets before shopify and your business can run on them after shopify.
Merchants that need it custom can reach out to me.
If you use the shopify-admin for everything everyday your doing it wrong, especially for bulk work.
The shopify admin is a bare miniumum offering don’t be trapped into a mentality that is your be all end all.
That’s just over dependence on some other companies proprietary lock in , why participate in your own conditioning for that.
Automate the dumb stuff or build custom dashboards that are immune to UI changes shifting the issue to api updates.
Either be frustrated every other month forever, or build your business to be resilient to the whims of a billion dollar company.
Shopify is not built by merchants for merchants for every merchants specific needs.
It’s built by shopify’s developers to fit the least common denominator of 5 MILLION+ merchant requirements.
Same thing happened to the merchants theme code editor sample posts here and here , it was dead simple and FAST replace with a bloated developers IDE that’s 3x the size and just as slow.
And recently the theme visual customizer had a bunch of stuff changed and moved around too.
Or the annual coinflip of whether or not they’ll drastically change the dashboard right before black friday 
NOTE:
These are the PEER TO PEER forums
For actual complaints contact a shopify support advisor directly on the help site or admin.
https://help.shopify.com/
Then publicly complain, don’t do it in reverse as then your just unlikely to follow through and encouraging others to not be effective as well.
No the load time is ALWAYS dependent on shopifys’ servers.
Less products loaded == less server load == more money saved.
This is the cost of playing in shopify’s sandbox, or any SASS/cloud thing without an associated fee for hosting/usage or SLA’s.
They will always cut corners in the name of “performance” over merchant quality of life , or some sort of internal devbrained decision(like the code editor) that makes no sense to every day users because they don’t use the software.