New Product Bulk Edit screen and other oddities

Technical Q&A
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The new screen is nice looking, however cumbersome to use.

We often go in to make bulk changes in products that are now out of stock and put them to draft status so it minimizes products that appear in the POS system that are not available.

In the old format…we would drag and highlight the status field on many products, then just type the ‘d’ or ‘ar’ and it would change all the status’ to draft or archived.

On the new screen, you cannot use the keyboard to recognize the value you want.

You have to click the dropdown menu and select the status and when you do it deselects all the products you

selected and only changes ONE product. In addition…you have to use the mouse to select the new status.

This new format makes you use the mouse for everything. IMO…It should have the ability to use either the

mouse or keyboard…like entry screens always have been built. Taking away that flexibility is disappointing.

The fact that it weirdly de-selects all the fields you have just bulk selected for change just highlights the fact

that these new features are not tested significantly to ensure the user has a seamless, smooth experience.

In fact, any screen that has a ‘SAVE’ button, you should be able the press enter and have it save. Not have to just use the mouse. Case in point…the Google Fields screen.

I can fly through that screen using tabs/and pressing the letter on the keyboard with the value I need in the field. For example; for AGE I press ‘I’ for infant, tab to next field and press ‘U’ for unisex, tab to next field and press ‘N’ for new, tab to next field and type in color, then next field and type in material. When done I habitually press ‘ENTER’ to finish…but have to stop and go to the mouse and click on it.

I know this is nit-picky…but with all the hoops we have to go through now to get a product in the system and correctly over to Google, Facebook..etc…these little things save time and make life easier.

In these challenging times…new features are great only if they enhance the users (us small business owners) ability to get to market faster.

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Correction to original post:

We used to be able to select a field to change many products at a time (dragging it down to select) and once I got to the bottom (which could be 50 or so products) I could change that last product and ALL the products selected would be changed.

In the new bulk change screen, if you highlight many products to change, then when you are done selecting and you are at the bottom of the selections and try to select the change in the dropdown menu, it deselects ALL the products you selected. It seems you have to scroll back to the top of the list and do the change on the first product in order for it to populate down through all the products you selected.

These are the small things that make big differences when you are doing bulk changes.

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Sorry…second correction…RE-INSTALL THE OLD BULK EDIT!

I am doing my monthly status update of out-of-stock products.

On a screen of 50 products, I probably updated about 90% of the products status. That is the only change.

It has been 10 minutes and the screen is still ‘clocking’ as if it is doing the updates.

It is not working.

On the old screen, we could page up and see where it was in the updates. Can’t on this screen.

The old version would update within a minute or so. This one is still going…obviously not working.