How to Bulk Edit using Dynamic Fields

Ablestar Bulk Product Editor has advanced editing features that allow you to edit your products even further.

There may be times when you want to modify product fields in bulk, using data or placeholders from other fields. For example, you may need to add the vendor name as a placeholder to the end of all your SEO product descriptions.

In situations like this you can tell the app to use whatever value is in that other field as part of the new value. In this case, you would use the 'Dynamic field' option while doing an 'In-App Edit' to add to the beginning of the description field.

Step 1. Start an 'In-App Edit'

Search and filter your list of products and then from the 'Configure modifications' view, specify text field to edit. Most commonly used are:

• Product title, vendor and description
• SEO tile and description
• Single line text metafields

Go more in depth with all the 'How to Edit' Text options here

Once the 'Field to edit' and 'How to edit' fields are specified, click the Add dynamic value link on the right side of the screen:

1. In the popup window choose which field to use and select the capitalization options
2. Click on Add dynamic field

Tax Suffix Option

You can use a 'Tag Suffix' option as a dynamic field, which allows you to use part of a tag as a dynamic field value. This can be useful if you have a tag like 'size=XL' and you want to just use 'XL' for the value.

When you choose the 'Tag Suffix' option, a popup window will appear asking you to enter the first part of the tag to match on. This is the part of the tag, like 'size=', that is constant across all the products.

If a matching tag isn't found, the value will return a blank string. You can avoid this by first searching only for products with tags that contain the text that you are looking for (eg, 'size=').

Fields that have a Dynamic Field Option

• Barcode
• Description
• Google Shopping Fields: Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) and Custom Labels 1 through 4
• Manufacturer Part No
• Meta Description
• Meta Title
• Option 1 Name / Value
• Option 2 Name / Value
• Option 3 Name / Value
• Product Type
• Size
• SKU
• Title
• Vendor
• Any text product metafield

Fields that can be used as Dynamic Field Options

• Barcode
• Compare-at Price
• Handle
• Price
• Product ID
• Product Type
• SKU Tags
• Tags
• Title
• URL
• Variant Count
• Variant ID
• Variant Options 1 through 3
• Vendor
• Any text metafield

Dynamic Fields and Capitalization

You can optionally choose change the capitalization of your dynamic fields. This is particularly useful when importing products with varying text formats from third-party suppliers. Your choices are:

• UPPER CASE
• lower case
• Title Case

Dynamic fields and Handles

If you are using the dynamic function to update a Handle field using a Product Title as the Dynamic field, it will automatically be converted to the shopify-handle-format (with dashes).

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Set your product handles to match your product titles to improve your SEO
• You can use Code snippets for more advanced cases where you want to include logic in the modification. For example, you could add a tag to a product based on the profit margin of a variant.

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