template creation

[e_tiangui]

I would appreciate your help in determining how to create templates to be used in the "description" section of a listing, but with the ease that in the future, if I edit the template, that edition will automatically be reflected in all the listings where it is  calling the template.
That is, as if it were a subroutine that is called, therefore, a future edition to the subroutine will pass transparently to the list that calls this subroutine.
Is it possible to do this on an ebay listing???

I need to use this, because the current facility on ebay to bulk edit the description field, using the "find and replace" option is not reliable for full paragraphs, and being hundreds of items, it's frustrating to do it one by one.

I will appreciate your help very much

[shipscript]

eBay's older Seller Hub bulk editor was able to revise the HTML view of the description, so all of the underlying codes had to be considered in a bulk edit. In the new bulk editor, the HTML is not taken into account, so only plain text within a paragraph, if there is no underlying HTML, can be edited. It's much less effective.

It appears you have boilerplate text that needs to be updated. If your entire description is boilerplate, with no item details at all, then you might be able to use eBay's bulk editor to replace the entire content. At least that tool allows HTML in the revision, since you do have a lot of underlying HTML, like color, bold, and list numbers.

 

[e_tiangui · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your information, it is useful for me to understand what is happening, although it will not be able to solve my problem, because I need to edit only part of the entire text of the description, and that is the same for all the listings. This part of the text that I want to edit cannot be found by the "find and replace" tool, and the "change to" tool would remove the part of the text that is individual or unique to the item.
Since I cannot insert a link that points to the outside of ebay, as if it were a subroutine in any programming code, I am unable to make bulk editions, in my context.

Thanks a lot

[shipscript]

@e_tiangui 

If you wish, you can use this online tool to bulk edit your listings.

https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm

It was originally designed to help sellers remove active content in bulk, but it can also be used to remove and replace various sorts of text and HTML in bulk.  Because the tool allows complex regex terms for find/replace, one pass can alter a lot of different code strings.

1. The tool will first load all of the listings specified in the initial page.
2. Then, various find/replace fields can be set up on the second page ("starts with" through "ends with" or use a "regex" expression with wildcards).
3. The tool will then run through each description, create a copy with the replaced text, and allow you to download a spreadsheet of all the listings with their replacement descriptions.
4. That spreadsheet can be uploaded to eBay to bulk-revise those listing.

There is a Sandbox tool that does the same thing for a single listing, so it may be helpful to use that tool to experiment with a single listing that you can manually revise.

https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm

If you provide two sample listings that may have different boilerplates that you want to change, and tell me what section to change, I can show you how to create the filters to do what you want.