When a business has thousands of SKU's it becomes important to be able to do mass changes to them.

Play Area

The play area is designed as a place to make it easier to mass change SKU's or use a SKU as a template for others.

How to use the Play Area

From the Article Screen:

1. Play Area
   1. Create / Restart List - A list of SKU's to act on is required - each person can have their own list but only one at a time
2. Finder
   1. filter for SKU's of interest
   2. Select, CNTR multi-select, or Select - hold shift - select other record - gets all in between
   3. Right click - add to play area
   4. Change filters
   5. repeat until all items to modify have been placed in play area
3. Play Area
   1. There will be a list of SKU's - select or multi-select then right click to see options

Merging Items from the play area

Where an SKU has inadvertently been created twice (ie duplicated) - then you can merge one into another.  All transactions will be appended to the surviving SKU

Diagnostics

Finds SKU's that appear not to be setup correctly.