Product Mapping Navigation

Submitted by kend on Wed, 2011-09-21 16:33 in Price Tapestry

Hi David,

I have looked through forum, but don't see any comments about how to manage thousands of products in the Products map utility.

Wondering if PT users simply list thousands of mapped products on one page?

Some suggestions:
Put "Add new product" button at top of page, so extensive scrolling is not needed to enter products.
Add a sticky search / filter to list particular items or brands.
Not sure about pagination, the fewer clicks to find stuff the better.

And also before I go ahead with mapping products, I wanted to ask if using the product map utility will noticeably slow the price comparison system?

Thanks!
Ken.

Hi Ken, Thanks for your

Submitted by support on Wed, 2011-09-21 17:58

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your comments; i'll look into ways to improve Product Mapping further but just wanted to reply to your second point quickly; since Product Mapping is applied at import time there's effect at all on the speed of the price comparison system...

Cheers,
David.
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Hi David I haven't completed

Submitted by kend on Wed, 2011-09-21 20:39

Hi David

I haven't completed adding products yet, and will be able to evaluate better when it's completed.

Now that I think about it, the products map is applied at import time so no extra effect on the system.

I assume if I really want to change position of the Add Product button, I can just try to paste the code to the top of the page(?)

This is the first time I have used the product map tool and is very efficient for data entry. So thank you for the big / huge improvement! The import filter worked well enough, but was relatively slower for changing product names.

Appreciate the fast reply, as I know you are out of office. The mapping page started to look really long and so I was curious how it might affect data entry performance and overall performance.

-Ken.

Hi Ken, The New Product form

Submitted by support on Thu, 2011-09-22 09:24

Hi Ken,

The New Product form can easily be moved to the top of the page, the code being at line 84 and extends as follows:

  print "<h3>New Product</h3>";

  print "<form method='post'>";

  print "Name:<br />";

  widget_textBox("name",(isset($_POST["name"])?widget_safe(widget_posted($_POST["name"])):""));

  widget_errorGet("name");

  print "<br /><br />";

  print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Add' />";

  print "</form>";

...simply CUT that section, and PASTE in immediately after the H2 heading at line 50:

print "<h2>Product Mapping</h2>";

When spending time on Product Mapping, don't forget to make a regular back-up using the Database Tool so that in the unlikely event of any database problems you won't lose all your work!

Cheers,
David.
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