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How to update the attribute for each product if there is a attribute change at category level

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Posted on by Naganathan Mohan 155

Hi All,

I would like to know is there any standard batch job that populates the newly added attributes at category level to product?

What i have noticed is, when a category added to a product the attributes are getting added to product master when we open the product attribute form.  The logic to create attribute for product master is available on at the form level.  Incase if i add a new attribute to the same category, how that new category will be added to the product without opening the 'Product attribute' from again. 

Because we have almost 30000+ product and not possible to open the screen to populate that one attribute.  Please let me know if there is a standard way we can populate the missing attribute from the category for all the products.

Thanks 

Nagananathan

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    Hi,

    You can use the DMF tool, with the entity DMFProductMasterEntityClass.

    This is the standard way, or create a custom code to do that.

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    Naganathan Mohan 155 on at

    @Tatina: Thanks for your reply, Need clarification on your input

    Are you asking me to reimport the product using the DMFPRoductMasterEntity to update the product?

    will it assign new attributes from category?

    Will it keeps the attribute value which user modified after the previous import?

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    guk1964 10,888 on at

    Think of the category attributes as default values to save time in data population - however these are neither mandatory nor validated and can be overwritten item by item with an item specific value for any given value - while the category value remains unchanged

    So automatically updating a category attribute value change to all items would then overwrite those item specific values.

    So for maintenance  some update of the particular value for specific items, or to add a new attribute, either manual entry or data import item by item is needed.

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    Naganathan Mohan 155 on at

    Finally i end up writing custom code for populating the product attribute.

    Thanks for all of your help

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