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Matt@9BallDesign
#1 Posted : Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:13:32 AM(UTC)
Matt@9BallDesign

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I might be the only one... when I'm working on products and I'm assigning upsells/cross sells, I'm not a fan of the main catalog page loading the selected category that I pulled upsells from.


Example, editing products A thru G in Category A, assigning Product Y from Category Y to all products in category A.



1. Click Catalog, Select Category A in the drop down.

2. All Products in Category display.

3. Edit Product A, Click Upsells, select Category Y in drop down.

4. Assign Product Y as Upsell.

5. Click Save and Continue

6. Main Catalog Displays Category Y

7. Have to reselect Category A in drop down box

8. Rinse & Repeat



It's an inconvenience as it's adding serious overhead to the time it takes to cross market products. Specifically in situations where a large amount of products needed to be updated. Talking 20-30 accrued minutes per task.
Matt Martell


http://www.9balldesign.com - Web, Print, Graphic


http://www.martellhardware.com/ - Decorative & Builder's Hardware

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MitchA
#2 Posted : Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:55:19 AM(UTC)
MitchA

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Posts: 1,737

Agreed. As with most applications we use, the programers stop designing when the software merely works (most of the iterations of Windows is a case in point). Sitting the programmers down and telling them to build a store from scratch, then to update half of the product's prices, pictures, coupons, sales, up/cross sells, etc..... would go a long way towards getting a package that not only worked much better for having discovered more bugs, but was a joy to use.

Also... those damned sort arrows. Sure they work and adjusting the order of a few products works - the design stopped there. If a designer had been to told to move/sort 30 or more products in each of 10 categories we'd have gotten a better way to do this before release. Store owners/users wouldn't have designed it this way.

Many of the 'wish-listed' items posted for BVC6 seek to cure store owner/user usability issues. I've said this before... A few minutes/hours spent by a developer/designer can save all of the users collectively many hundreds of hours. A brilliant example of efforts taken during design to make the software a joy to use is Shipper. The interfaces and controls are intuitive and the efforts to make this happen shows in the end product.
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