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From the Product Template page, or from the top-menu, go to Catalog > Product Templates. An example page is shown below.
The Product Template management page displays the name of each Template Name, and the number of Merchant Fields and Customer Fields for each one.
In the Products column, a counter indicates the number of products that are associated to the Template. For products assigned to Templates that are using Merchant fields, this information is displayed within the Product Editing pages. For products assigned with a Template that is using Customer fields, the information is displayed within the product pages of the retail store.
To change the name of a Template, or if you want to edit/add Merchant and Customer Fields, click on the EDIT icon.
The COPY icon creates a duplicate set of the selected Template and all of it's input fields. Click the DELETE icon to delete a Template, it's input fields, and any product associations.
Assigning Products to a Template
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To assign products to a Template, you'll need to first go to the Edit Template page by clicking the blue EDIT icon.
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Click on the linked number counter next to Associated Products. This will bring you to a page that looks similar to the one shown below.
In the left section of the page, you will see any Assigned Products that are currently associated to the Template.
From the right section of the page, you can search for more products that will be using this Template.
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Using the search form, enter a Product Name and click the SEARCH button.
You can check the box to Show Thumbnails for the product results.
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To associate product(s) to the Template, simply click the green PLUS icon in the Link column.
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It will automatically appear in the Assigned Products section of the page.
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When finished assigning products, click the FINISH button to return to the Manage Product Templates page.
Assigning Templates to a Product
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From Product Editing page, click on the Product Template tab from the left-column.
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Click the Change link to add or remove Templates associations.
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After making your selection, use the right arrow to move it to the Selected Templates list.
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To remove a selection, select it from the right list and move it to the Available Templates list on the left.
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Click the OK button to finish and view your changes.
Depending on the type of input fields used in your Product Template, the results will either be displayed for the customer or the merchant. Let's take a look at an example for each.
The Personalization template, used for this example, only uses Customer input fields.
These appear on the retail product page as additional selections or input forms.
If you are assigning a Template that uses Merchant input fields, then it will be displayed in the product editing area.
Administrator users can create custom product attributes using templates. This eases adding repetitive information in the product descriptions.
In the example above, a custom Movie Rating template was used to output some common information on the product description page.
You can add as many Templates to a product as needed. The results of the input form will be shown on the product pages for all that it is assigned to.
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