clone products

[Marlowe_P]

hi,
in my site i sell customized items (like tshirts, iphone covers...).

so to every single picture corresponds multiple items organized in hierarchy with child variants (colors etc...).

i want to know the easiest and fastest way to create new products for every new picture inserted in my site to be printed in all those items...

for every picture i have something like 30 products... don't want to create them manually!

[Marlowe_P]

Maxim Pishnyak wrote in another topic:

For fast (more faster then manual method) adding you could use CSVI Improved.

anybody knows if this tool can be useful even for replicate a granparent/parent/child relationship among products?

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Yes, it could be useful for this.

[Marlowe_P]

i re-writed my request to be more specific:

on my Joomla 2.5 site i will sell costumized items through VM2.

to every image uploaded on my site will correspond something like 30 products (the objects where the image will be printed and sold, like cups, tshirts, iphone skins...) organized in a two level grandparent/parent/child relationship through generic cart variant (for example: to show tshirt different colors previews) and cart variant (for sizes, dimesions etc...).

i manually have built these tree structure for one single image, and this structure must be duplicated for every image uploaded in the future, but i don't want to do it from VM2 backend because it will time expensive.

i'm looking for a tool that allows me to compile this structure in a spreadsheet (i will help myself with find/replace) and make me import it succesfully in VM2.

the product fields i need to fill are:
product name
manufacturer
categories
product pricing!
child products!
product description
in stock! (i don't need to control stocks but i can't leave it blank because otherwise product won't be displayed)
product image! (i need to upload an image to almost every product)
custom fileds! (cart variant and generic cart variant type)

what's, if exists, the best tool to reach this? CSVI does exactly this? other tools?

thanks

[Maxim Pishnyak]

to every image uploaded on my site will correspond something like 30 products (the objects where the image will be printed and sold, like cups, tshirts, iphone skins...) organized in a two level grandparent/parent/child relationship through generic cart variant (for example: to show tshirt different colors previews) and cart variant (for sizes, dimesions etc...).

i manually have built these tree structure for one single image...

Better try to create it manually for one case now.
Then export with CSVI what you'd got in VM.
You will get example csv file to start with.