Adding option to every product.

[homeappliance]

Hi,

Is there any way to add a new option to all products rather than one by one?

For example a shop that never done collection now does,so i need to add an option like -

"Collect in StoreA
Collect in StoreB
Collect in StoreC
Collect in StoreD"

Now the option is easy made can just use a select box,the only problem is adding it to 1000+ products will take a long time.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks peeps.

[Basara]

Hello.
You can create Global Attribute and then add it to product.. a bit speed up process.
Other way is to use CSV import but you need backup before you run it and take attention to the details
http://docs.abantecart.com/pages/tools/import.html#Example1:update

[homeappliance]

When I export it and open it up in "OpenOffice Calc" all i get is like random text?

Like the image attached?

Why does this happen?

[Basara]

Hello.

Can you send me your export file?

[homeappliance]

Hi,

Would you have any idea what is wrong maybe?

How can i send you the file?

Thanks.

[Basara]

Hi.
Thank you I receive you export file. file.tar.gz is common for almost all servers archive format. You need to unarchive it to get your unarchived export.csv file
There are a lot of free archive software with .tar.gz support for example 7zip 

[homeappliance]

Done,thanks alot. Silly me.

How would I go about changing an option on all products now?

I see thing's like "product_options[0].product_option_id   product_options[0].attribute_id" and so on.

I added my new option to one product but when I go to that product on the sheet it does not have any difference between that product and  the ones that don't have that option?

Any help is appreciated.

[homeappliance]

My upload is not working,it always fail's when I go to upload it?

Why would this be?