1) Once you’ve logged in, click on the Manage my gallery link at the top of your page (directly to the right of your shop title)
2) Click into the Public area of the Products tab (follow the link to this that is in the left column of the Gallery Settings page)
3) You should now be looking at the Public Products page. Directly to the right of this title there is a link to Add new product line. Click on this.
4) An Add New Product Line dialog pops up. The name of your new product line should go in the Name field. Product lines are displayed in your pages in alphabetical order, so if you use some special character as the first letter of the product name (such as an exclamation point, as I did), these will show up on the top of the list. You can either put all your linky code (or any other descriptive information, in the case of a “normal” product line page) in the Description field now, or add this in later – after you’ve already added the new product line page. Once you’re satisfied with the details of your new product line, click the Add New Product Line button to “make it so”.
5) Congratulations, you now have a new product line! You can pretty much think of this as another page just like your top page in that you can add products here when you create them, and/or put whatever kind of descriptive text in here you want – like links to other pages, in this example.
6) If you want to edit the information on this page (either now, or later to add/remove links or other data), you also do that by going through the same Public Products page you got to in steps 1-3 above. Just click on the product line page you want to edit (it will be listed in the left-hand column under All Product Lines).
7) Once you’re in the product line page you want to edit, just click the Edit link directly to the right of the product line page title at the top.
8) I noticed that these pages are a little trickier to format than the top-level page. I ended up having to add in explicit HTML line-break tags (<br>) to get things to space correctly, but they accept a good amount of HTML (formatting tags, links, rudimentary tables, image tags, etc. – enough for me to accomplish what I was after anyway!)
9) As an “extra bonus” note, you may have noticed that there is also an Add new product line link to the right of the Edit link mentioned in step 7. You can use this to add a sub-product line (just like you did in steps 3-5 above) – that’s right, your product line can contain another product line! This can be a really handy feature for organizing an otherwise cluttered shop setup.
Tutorial by Wilddeej
hi and thanks for the tutorial!
I am having the hardest time getting new products into a “new product line”. I’ve tried creating thee product line first and then adding products, but can’t figure out how…
tried creating products first and then adding to a product line, but also can’t figure out how! what am i missing??
I just want to creat a new product line and then add the products to it so i can divide up my shop enough to make it manageable–like a new product line for each design.
does this make sense?? Any help much appreciated!! thanx
Hi Sharon … I checked your store .. and I see you have a few product lines already created .. to move products in to them .. go to your myzazzle .. products tab .. public products .. from there you can move items individually by clicking on edit on each item and on the pop up page theres the options to change your categories .. or you can mass edit by ticking the box under each item you want to move to a specific category then hitting edit selected link near top of page
If you want to create sub categories just click on the gallery product line you’ve already created while you’re in myzazzle… products tab .. public products area
on the pop up make sure it says what category you want the sub added to then type in the sub category name
Hope that helps .. if theres anything else just shout : )