Prestools - the free mass edit toolset

[musicmaster 119]

Prestools is a suite of user-friendly and very powerful tools to mass edit your products, orders and categories. It is a kind of Swiss Army knife that runs outside your backoffice. You can download it here and find a manual here.

Prestools was started in 2012 by putting together a small selection of tools for Prestashop. It has since grown steadily to become a comprehensive set of tools for maintaining Prestashop and Thirty Bees. It is one of the most popular downloads on the Prestashop forum.

The main parts are:

• product-edit: great options for mass editing more than 50 product fields. Add categories, change prices, update descriptions - for hundreds of products at once. 
• product csv: a very flexible tool to generate csv files.
• product-sort: an easy way to sort products inside a category. From position 500 to 1 in a blink. With the visual sort option you can see immediately how things will look.
• prodcombi: edit and oversee properties of combinations of a number of products at once.
• order-edit: adding and deleting products and changing prices without problems.
• order-search: make a selection on carrier, payment type, status, etc. or just search. With csv export option.
• category-edit: useful for editing metadata and descriptions for SEO
• combi-edit: assign pictures to your combinations quickly
• combi-copy and combi-delete: copy, modify and delete attribute combinations using one product as a template
• regenerate images for selections of products
• cleanup images: save on disk space by cleaning up images of deleted products
• shop rescue: turn off overrides and non-Prestashop modules when due to some bug you can no longer login in the backoffce.
• override-list: get a list of overrides and which modules might own them. - and a lot of statistics.

Installation: Unzip the downloaded file and copy the resulting files to a subdirectory below your admin directory (do not install as a PS module!).You can access the program in the browser like "www.myshop.com/myadmin/mydir/login1.php". You will be welcomed by a login screen: the default username is "demo@demo.com" and the default password is "opensecret". Please adapt your security settings in the "settings1.php" file. There is a mini-module included for integration into the Thirty Bees backoffice.

There is a demo-installation available. Username and password are the default. Below you find a view of the product-edit page where the description field has been made editable:

Prestools was originally written for Prestashop 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. Some parts may still work only with Prestashop. If you find a problem please let me know.

There are a few parts in product-edit that you need to buy at the Prestools website. However, over 95% of the script is free.

Among the files you will find a file prestoolssuite-module.zip. You can install this file as a module. It is a mini-module as the only thing it does is adding a link to your Prestools installation in the Catalog menu in the backoffice.

If you find a problem, please update Prestools to its latest version before you report it here. When reporting, please mention your Thirty Bees version.

Follow the installation instructions! This is not a module!

Edited October 6, 2019 by musicmaster

[zimmer-media 120]

It's a very helpful tool, we love it because it makes our job a lot easier.

How can I filter in the tool, for example, if I want to see entries without values? So that I can enter the missing information. As an example product available, it is not filled in all articles, because it was forgotten when importing CSV.

[musicmaster 119]

There are many different ways to get products with specific field values: - you can search for it - you can use the Sort By field. Even fields without a value will appear somewhere either at the top or the bottom. - you can also sort by clicking a column header - Just setting the field in the Search field is sometimes enough. If you search for example for discounts (without filling in a specific value) you will see all products with discounts. And by using the Not operator you can also see all the products that do not have a discount

[zimmer-media 120]

Many thanks for your response. Damn, of course, I completely forgot to sort fields without values. I always tried filtering for fields without values.

[bzndk 33]

Just wondering why the "module" is not using login information from TB? would it not make a lot more sence if it did?

And be more secure? and since it allready uses the MySQL db connectet to the store it should be quite easy to actually add that, not a fan of hardcoded logins at all.

But i like what you have done just think it could be better if it used the store admin logins.

[musicmaster 119]

From an user point of view it would certainly be more pleasant when Prestools would use the TB login. However, it is not as easy to implement as you suggest and it might have disadvantages too.

Prestools operates outside the TB engine. Only that way can it have complete control over the screen and achieve adequate speed. So in order to use the TB login - that is tightly integrated with the rest of its code - the code must be replicated without that context. That would require a deep understanding of how the TB login works (the shop password is stored encoded and you also need to deal with the cookies that keep you logged in). So this is quite a tough job and I have never found the time and motivation for it. Maybe somewhere in the future, but this has not a high priority.

I believe Prestools is quite secure as it is. But of course suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

[bzndk 33]

Should be quite easy to do actually, since TB uses the passwordverify and passwordhash feature for login

[musicmaster 119]

Recently Prestools had some bugs due to a few structural changes. Line submit had been changed to make virtual product edit work and to increase security the cookie format was changed. It should all work now again. Please notify me if you find any remaining problems.

Recent improvements in Prestools:  - problems with the mini-module were fixed.   - product-solo was fixed. It had been dysfunctional since the line submit fix. Now that has been repaired and also a few improvements have been made.  - Integrity checks has been improved and offers now the possibility to repair some problems.  - Some minor additional functionality: attribute sort, statistics on categories  - Some minor bug fixes

[Kleijn36 12]

@musicmaster When i delete a special price i get this page/error.

[musicmaster 119]

Hi Kleijn, Sorry to hear you found some problem. I have uploaded an improved version that should solve the problem. Can you download it from your user account?

[Kleijn36 12]

Yes will do that in an hour. Also no option to edit warehousing.

[musicmaster 119]

@kleijn36 Prestools cannot edit warehousing data. That is a limitation of the software. It only gives you a passive overview of what you have in stock.

[Kleijn36 12]

@musicmaster Thanks for the quick update. Problem with delete special price is solved.

[Cassim 0]

Any plan to add a meta title mass updater ? @musicmaster

[musicmaster 119]

@cassim Do you have any problem doing that now?

[Cassim 0]

@musicmaster said in Prestools - the mass edit toolset:

@cassim Do you have any problem doing that now?

Its more a request. I love if it can do something like this :

Mass update using a code line like this :

Buy {productname} for just {pricevat} at {storename}

So that you can make a custom meta tag, and fill this automatic to the products without meta tags already.

Same goes for meta description.

[musicmaster 119]

You can do much of that already with the "copy from field" and "replace from field" mass update functions. The only thing that you can't get is discounted prices.

[Cassim 0]

@musicmaster

So i can use the Copy from Name, into the field. ? And make it that way. ? As i don't see that obtion http://prntscr.com/jv7qkt

Am i missing anything. ? Any module or something. ??

Im running 1.20

[musicmaster 119]

For metadescription these options have been there for quite some time. For metatitle you need to download the latest version.

[colorful-ant 80]

@cassim from prestashop -> seoupdater https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/56865-seo-updater-module-automatically-generate-title-description-and-keywords-meta-tags/

it works with tb -> but it does not work with php 7+ I think the problem was here with mysql

meta tags for products and category

[Cassim 0]

@musicmaster

But you can't make it do. this title :

Download (productname) now - For just (price) if you buy now - (product description)

It can't do that. I can just copy from the description if i understand you right. .

[musicmaster 119]

Yes, you can do that perfectly with "replace from field". The only thing that will give a problem are the brackets of (productname). But if you do it with "Download xxxxx now - For just yyyyy if you buy now - zzzz" replacing the strings will work. Just three mass edit commands.

[Cassim 0]

Arh yes that is right. !

[FooLab 38]

is it possible to configure a cronjob that run a specific prestools mass edit?

[musicmaster 119]

@foolab said in Prestools - the mass edit toolset:

is it possible to configure a cronjob that run a specific prestools mass edit?

No, that is not possible.

Of course Prestools has quite a lot of different functions and it depends what you want to do. But in general it is not possible.