Overview: Search and Filters

Ablestar Bulk Product Editor allows you to effectively search and filter products which can also save processing time for exports or edits.

From the app dashboard, click the Start an in-app edit button or click the 'Products' menu from the left sidebar. The app will search for products who have matching text or meta in any of these fields:

Title
Vendor
Product Type
Tags
Description

Once the 'Product' view appears, enter any term or keyword in the search bar to narrow down your product set and apply additional filters to export or edit:

Add Filters and Options

Filters

You can increase your search speeds by filtering the data set down even further.

Click on the Add filter + button to select from a list of filters like collections, date created, or handles. Try any of our custom filters to quickly identify bulk sets of data:

Compare-at Price is Blank
Has Duplicate SKU, barcode or title
Has/Doesn't have images
Not in any Collection
Not in any Manual Collection
Price < Compare Price
Price = Compare Price
Price > Compare Price
Inventory quantity < > =

Learn other techniques to search for empty Tags or change capitalization

Options

Choose the filtering option. Several options could be available, depending on the filter:

equals/does not equal (case-sensitive)
contains/does not contain (case-sensitive)
is blank/is not blank
is greater than/is less than
contains any of the words

Advanced: Searching Multiple SKUs or Product IDs

If you want to search for products that are in a list of SKUs or Product IDs you can use the filter drop down with the following conditions:

Select 'SKU' or 'Product ID' as the field to search
Use 'contains any of the words' as the criteria
Input a list, separated by a space:

If you copy SKUs or Product IDs from a spreadsheet, you can copy the column contents directly into the value field, only spaces are required.

Toggle Filter Match

If you are using multiple filters, you can change your matching preferences by clicking the Matching icon:

Matching on any filter: this matches using an OR relationship - the search will only return products where either filter1 OR filter 2 match.
Matching on all filters: this matches using an AND relationship - the search will only return products where both filter1 AND filter2 match

Learn how to save search filters for future quick access.

Searching Specific Product Variants

When you search for a variant field (like price or option 1 value) only the variants that match that value are returned. This way you can edit only some of the variants for a product.

The app will show how many of the total variants you have selected, based on the variant parameter specified. In this example, only 7 of my 10 variants are filtered for edit:

Clicking on the eye icon next to the variant number opens a popup window that list the exact variants for confirmation.

Confirm Preview

Once you have applied a search and filter(s), you will see a preview of all matching products below the editor.

Confirm the set of products matches your criteria and manually remove any that you are not needed by clicking the circle icon with the minus sign to the right of the product row:

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

Filtering improves processing speeds by narrowing down search results
Save your search parameters for quick future access
No commas are needed when adding several words from a spreadsheet, just spaces
Learn how to search for duplicate barcodes, SKUs or titles quickly

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