fmProductEdit, fmEditProduct_Zen - Edit Product Form.
To edit product you can double click on it or use "Edit product" 
button. It calls Edit Product form for selected product.
The availability of some of the "Edit Product" dialog pages depends
on whether you have an appropriate contribution installed or not. For
example, Products X-Sell page is not available if you don't have
an appropriate contribution installed.
Generally Store Manager has the following Edit Product pages:
General (English)
Main Page contains general information about the product. If you are
creating a new Product, pay attention to fields marked with *. Those
fields are required and others may be left blank or with default
meanings.
- Date available - the date to start publishing current product at your store. Default setting is the same as Date added.
- Date added - date, when the product was created. Date added feels in automatically when you’re adding new product to a store.
- In stock - check if product is available at your store. If you
want to pre-announce your new product, you can select out of stock and then
add a date when it will be available.
- Name, Model - specify this options the way you want to appear them at the store page.
- Categories - One product may be assigned to multiple categories. To assign product to some category click "+" button
, and select a category from drop-down. To remove selected category from list click 
button. - Product Manufacturer – This option is self-explanatory. You can add to this dropdown by adding a manufacture in Catalog->Manufacturers.
You must do this before you add product if you want to use this
dropdown. Alternatively, you can do it afterwards by editing your
product.
- Tax class - specify tax class if this item is taxable.
- Quantity - specify product quantity.
- Price (Net) – actual price your want to sell your item for.
- Price Gross - specify your gross price.
- Currency and Weight are standard product properties. Drop-downs allow selecting or calculating values.
- Image - select your main image to go with your product. There are three buttons to edit image.
- First one
is used to browse contents of your local folders and select an image.
When you press OK button on product edit form it will be uploaded to
"Images directory" on FTP. When the local image is selected, this field will
display local image path like shown in the example - C:\My Images\some_image.jpg. But local image path will be replaced with image name some_image.jpg right after upload. - Second button
is
used to select some images stored remotely. It's done by browsing
contents of FTP folder specified as "Images directory". You can also
choose images subdirectory as well. - Third one
is used to open Image Resize Rules window. You can add or delete rules if you need.
- URL (without http://) - This option is for you to place a link
to product manufacturer's site. For example, if you're selling Dutch
tulips the link should take to Some Garden in Holland.
- Raw HTML Edit mode - allows you to see the description in HTML
code when checked. All modifications to HTML will be saved "as they are",
without any corrections. If this option is unchecked, Store manager will
use WYSIWYG HTML Editor. Please note that this ActiveX control may
implicitly modify HTML code and insert unexpected formatting.
- Description - represents the product description exactly the way it's going to appear at product's page.
Edit HTML button - shows new HTML editor window of product
description. It has 2 tabs: HTML and Code, and Properties Toolbar.
Source preview is useful if you are working directly with "raw" HTML
text, which gives you precise control over the tags used in the page.
However, by default, you can still work with objects visually.
Design view in HTML editor enables you to:
- View and edit a page in a WYSIWYG-like environment.
- Work with HTML controls, using the visual representation that may be seen in the browser.
- Use menu and toolbar commands to apply certain types of
formatting, such as paragraph alignment, that are not available in
Source view.
- Use menu and toolbar commands to add and edit certain
elements, such as tables and lists, which you must edit as HTML text in
Source view.
- Drag items from the Toolbox and from the Project Explorer to create elements at your page.
- Use drag method for the reposition of absolutely positioned elements.
In Source view, the Properties window does not display style
properties. You can edit style properties directly in an HTML tag or by
using the Properties window in Design view.
Source view in the HTML editor enables you to:
- View and edit text and HTML tags.
- View and edit scripts on the page.
Press OK to save changes made in HTML editor.
- View Product page - live at your store. To make sure that the link is
generated correctly, go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced and
find the following line at the bottom:
You can uncheck "Same as database host" and type proper URL.
- Press OK to save General Product Settings. Or you can Apply changes and move to editing of the next product using < > buttons.
Language page
Language page(s) appear if you're using some language(s) other than
your store's Language. That's way you are able to input all text that is
going to appear on the page using Edit product window. This page's
options are actually an extract from general page's options, such as
Product name, URL to product page, Product Description and Edit HTML
option.
Please note, that General page settings will appear in your store
language (In our Example its English) which you set in Tools -> Store
language.
Other Product options
Other Product Options page contains additional Zen Cart product fields and parameters.
- Product type - you can select one of default Zen Cart product types.
- Product is Free – Is your product going to be free? If yes, enable this check-box.
- Product is Call for Price – You can use this option if you do not want to publish your price for this item.
- Product Priced by Attributes – Products would be priced via an attribute and not the actual price you set.
- Product is Virtual – when this option is enabled (checked "Yes") you can Skip Shipping
Address, when Disabled (No) Shipping Address is Required. This is for
items like downloadable files, e-books, etc.
- Always Free Shipping – select whether this item will be shipped free (Yes, Always Free Shipping) or use Normal Shipping Rules.
- Products Quantity Box Shows – Generally Show Quantity Box option
is used. If you have only one of these items, you can select the option
of having no quantity box.
- Product Qty Minimum – If you have to sell a minimum quantity of an item. 0 = Unlimited, 1 = No Qty Boxes
- Product Qty Maximum – The customer can purchase more than one item up to this amount.
- Product Qty Min/Unit Mix - Is used if you have created custom attributes.
- Sort Order – This will setup the sort order on how the product shows when listed in the store
Price Manager
Price Manager allows you to edit product pricing and discount levels. Use Add new or Delete Discount Levels to modify data.
- Discount type - choose Non, Percentage, Actual Price or Amount off.
- Discount Priced form - Price or Special.
- Discount levels - specify discount level name.
- Minimum Quantity - specify minimum quantity here.
- Discount value - specify discount value here.
- Calculated price - specify the calculated price here (to calculate discount form).
- Extended price - You can see the new price calculated (press Apply button to calculate your changes).
Attributes page
You can find exactly the same options to edit Attributes in two
places. First is Attributes tab in the Edit product window. The other option is
in the Product Attributes Section on the Main Categories & Products
Page.
Learn more about product attributes below.
Please note that this page will be available if you have Featured
Products contribution Installed. At this page you can configure
appearance of current product in the list of featured items.
If you want to add a product to the list of featured items simply
check Add to FEATURED option. It won't automatically update the product's status to
featured at the store, but makes it available in Featured List. It gives you an
opportunity to edit product's Featured status in Featured section, along
with other featured products. There you can set time, when the product
has active featured status (is featured), which equals to checking
Featured status checkbox in this window.
Next three options in Zen Cart are set automatically.
- Date added - the date, when the product was added to featured list.
- Last modified - the date, when you have made last changes in this product status.
- Date status change - automatically shows time when Featured
status was changed (you can see it current meaning in the box right
under Date Status Change option). Please note, that even if you manually
set this date, it won't change product status.
- Date expired - After this date Featured status will not be
valid. You can set date when you'd like to stop displaying this product
as featured. If the Featured Status box is unchecked, expiration date
is of no importance as the product is already not listed.
Product will be displayed at your store as Featured only when Featured Status checkbox is checked.
On this page you can configure appearance of current product in the
list of special items. It's similar to Featured Page, except that it has
several additional New Price lines.
Add to SPECIALS option doesn't automatically make product Special at
the store, but makes it available in Specials List. It gives you
an opportunity to edit product's Special status in Specials section, along
with the other special products. There you can set time, when the product
has active Specials status (is Special), which equals to checking
Specials status checkbox in this window. You can specify:
- Date added - indicates the date, when the product was added to specials list.
- Last modified - the date, when you have made last changes in this product status.
- Date status change - automatically shows time when Specials
status was changed (you can see it current meaning in the box right
under Date Status Change option). Please note that even if you manually
set this date, it won't change product status.
- New price (net or gross) - here you'll be able to see the discount
(how many percent off the current price you're providing). You can also
use up/down arrows to change price (1% step). But if you wish to set
some specific discount (let's say 25%), than new price will be
automatically calculated. Please note, that if you're setting %, it has
to be "-25" for discount and "25" to make new price 25% higher.
- Date expired - After this date Specials status will not be
valid. You can set date when you'd like to stop displaying this product
as special.
Product will be displayed at your store as Special only when Specials Status box is checked.
Additional fields
This page depends on additional contributions installed on your
store. If there's a contribution that has any connection to
product-related database fields, it will be shown at this page.
Other
You can find product ID and the product viewed and ordered number on
this page. Product ID is a unique product identification that cannot be
edited.
Products X-Sell
You can add or delete X-Sell (Cross-sell) products for current
product as well as substitute one X-Sell product with another (double
click on it). You can find the same options to edit X-Sell products on
the Edit product window and on the Main Cross-sell (X-Sell) Products
Page.
To add X-sell product click on Add X-sell product or double click on existing X-sell product you'll see a Search form.
If you type a few letters of Product name that you wish to make
X-sell and wait for a few seconds, the Manager will show you a list of
products that match your request (if Auto Search option is enabled).
You may wish to specify the number of rows to display results,
smaller number of products speeds up the search. Unless the product you're looking
for is listed in the search results, please specify greater number of
rows and click Find button. If you double click on any product in the
search results, it'll be added to the X-Sell products list. For more
search options see below.
Meta Tabs
Meta Tags tab allows you to specify meta title, meta description and meta keywords of your product here.
