After creating several Global Options I applied them to 80 products. This was accomplished within the Global Options section using the feature called Apply To Products.
It's a great feature that took only a short time to apply my options in one fell swoop. My thinking was if I needed to go back and edit or delete any of the options it could be done so easily within the Global Options section. For example, I might change a Global Option price in just one place and all products would reflect that price change.
Wrong.
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When using the Apply To Products feature it Copies the Global Options to each and every product in the selected list.
Turns out what I really wanted was Global Option Links instead. There is a big difference between Copy and Link.
Copy - Creates a "hard copy" of the options for each product.
Link - Ties the options for an individual product back to the Global Options. The idea being if you make a change to a Global Option all "linked" products automatically update with that change. Note: You cannot link a product to Global Options anyplace but within each individual product, one at a time. It cannot be done in bulk.
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Now I need to change all 80 products and doing an Export / Import seems a logical approach. Therefore, I need to:
[1] Delete existing "hard copy" options for each product
[2] Add new "linked" options for each product.
Upon Export I am able to see the options that are tied to each product, and I am also able to see something called Option Type in it's own column on the exported spreadsheet.
Option Type = P
One might guess changing the Option Type to "L" might do the trick. However, after hand editing a single product so it used Linked Global Options instead, and then exporting that product, it still shows Option Type = P.
There must be a better approach.