How can I edit the New Product template to include a specific text?

Store Design
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Hello,

I would like to add certain text to every new product that gets added to our store.

So when I click on “Add Product” link on the top right of the Products area page this text is already in the item description box.

Would any one know where/how I can edit the New Product template to include this text?

Thanks for your time,

Dubie

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Was just going to edit my post but didn’t see that option.

But this is the area to be more clear on what I am trying to edit.

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I have looked around but can’t seem to find any information for this.

So, yea any help would be appreciated.

Maybe this type of question is in there wrong section?

Not sure but, if so maybe a Mod can move it to a better section.

Thanks for your time,

Dubie

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If the description is the same for all products instead of adding a new product make a copy of an existing product with that description.

If this text is in addition to a products actual description

Your options are

  • if you don’t need the string to literally be part of the description check your theme settings product template for sections/blocks of text you can use to show that text for every product using that template
    • for OS2.0 themes you may be able to get away with the below example liquid using a custom-liquid block in tandem with turning off the normal description.
  • customize your theme to insert that text-string, or show based on a metafield definition.
  • export all products then use excel forumulas to insert that text then reimport products
  • setup an auotmation app/service to edit the description to check for that string and if missing preprend it, after a new product is saved AFTER it’s first created.
{% comment %} Paul N., prepend additional_description to product description
 https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/add-product-template/m-p/1444111/highlight/true#M380328
{% endcomment %}
{% capture additional_description %}
    

additional_text and html

{% endcapture %}

{{ product.description | prepend: additional_description }}
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Thanks for the reply.

Yes the text would be a addition to the products actual description.

I seen something like that on a page where he was showing how to add Tags to a product page.

But wasn’t sure that would work for us.

I see what you are doing here and it does seem like it could do what we need.

Could I do something like this as well?

{% comment %} Paul N., prepend additional_description to product description
 https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/add-product-template/m-p/1444111/highlight/true#M380328
{% endcomment %}
{% capture additional_description1 %}
    

1 additional_text and html

{% endcapture %}
{% capture additional_description2 %}
    

2 additional_text and html

{% endcapture %}

{{ prepend: additional_description1 | product.description | prepend: additional_description2 }}

It’s not exactly what I am looking for but might work for now.

So I have a product and in the description I have some text about the product then “Set of text” we put in all our products description, then more text about the product and then at the end another “Set of text”

That is why I wanted to edit the actual Add Product template and not a theme work around.

Because with this it will always be before anything we put in for description and/or after what we put in for description

Just not sure this is an option for Shopify to allow us to edit that page code.

Thanks for your time,

Dubie