Common Fragment for Products

[aalabels]

I am making a site that sells plain and printed labels. If somebody buys a specific size of label sheet, I show him/her material specification as well on product page.

I have a separate Material Specification Page [link left side]. The same information goes to product pages. This information is distributed into 5 Fragments.

What I have done so far is copied these Fragments from Material Specification document and pasted into all my products.

http://www.aalabels.com/acatalog/Mat...ification.html

When I make a small change into Material Specification document. I have to do copy paste in each product.

How can I get rid of this?? is there any way to link material specification to each product page ??

any idea ??

[Krithika]

Hello Assad

Sorry for the delay. To update fragments throughout the catalogue, copying the modifications across the products is the only way to go I am afraid.

The other alternatives might be :

1. Instead of having the fragment information on every product page, you can perhaps link the products to the Fragments using the Advanced Link feature, in which case you only need to update the information at a single point in the catalogue.

2. The other option could be to use product duplicates instead of fragments. For this you could modify a basic product layout, copy over the codes from the fragments, and paste them to appear with every product.
Product duplicates allow you the reset facility, using which if you make a change in the parent product, you just need to click on Reset Duplicates, which will make all duplicates mirror the values of the original in a single stroke.
Additionally, in Settings | Duplicates Fields Configuration, you can choose which fields will or will not be modifiable in the duplicates.
Just a suggestion.

Hope this helps.

[completerookie]

If I have understood the question correctly, you can approach it a different way.

• Create a "new fragment" in the Design | Library menu
• call that "cusLabelSpecification1"
• enter the details of that specification using html (you can get the layout by looking at the source code of one of the existing products)
• save the details
• under the product itself, add new fragment, change layout to "cusLabelSpecification1"
• save the product
• test
• now copy the design of "cusLabelSpecification1" into a new layout called "cusLabelSpecification2" and ammend as required
• continue for as many other layouts as you require

from now on, you only need to add a fragment and change it to the correct "custom layout"

There is NO NEED to enter any text in the "general text box" - its all contained within the layout.

anytime the specification changes, just ammend the library settings.

I hope this makes sense, and I've understood the question correctly

[aalabels]

fragment inheritance

krithika: of course, the idea of product duplicate will solve this issue, im going to give it a try and
completerookie: ideas both you gave me really looks like problem solving, i am making changes to get desired results and then i will come back in case of unsuccess.