Menu - Find back end of products fast

[Mistica]

I see the blue menu at the top of a single product page has changed.
I can't seem to find the link which brings a designer/creator  quickly and directly to your back end products page.

[Barbara · Accepted solution]

Given that Zazzle is always changing things, it's best to bookmark your go-to pages. I use Firefox's extremely convenient bookmark toolbar at the top of the browser, but wherever you do it, use bookmarks. In the meantime, maybe Zazzle will note the problem and add a "products" link.

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[Mistica]

Thank you Barbara. I was hoping it was sitting there in front of my nose. I know that is an easy solution. Thanks again.

[Windy]

@Barbara that would seem like a good solution, but is there a way to make that bookmark function to open a new page? I have the bookmark, but when I click on anything, this removes me from the bookmarked page. I would prefer to maintain my products page and have a new window or tab open for task I am about to do. But I don't know how to make that happen.

With the bookmark solution, I have three steps. 

Open a Tab. 

Click Bookmarks.

Scroll down to find my bookmark, and click. 

In the past, I just moved my cursor up to the top of the page and clicked PRODUCTS. One click. 

[Barbara]

@Windy  Right-click the bookmark and you'll have the choice of opening the page in a new tab. This is something I do constantly with links all over the internet so I don't lose any pages. I can often be maniac with this, the tabs at the top of the screen looking like a horizontal table of contents

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[Windy]

Oh......thanks! I know this on the desktop, but it works differently on the iPad, and therefore I had not been using this feature at all. (I have to remember that I can hold and press to get a menu that allows me to open new tab or new window). I'll just need to work to remember this. (Maybe I am cynical, but I don't think the easy, super functional and time-saving way to get to our products is ever coming back to Zazzle.)

[Barbara]

I can't imagine that Zazzle left it out deliberately, but you may be correct about it not coming back. Let's hope it does. I gave my iPad to my son and am no longer perplexed by its behavior. 🙂

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[BKMuir]

I am confused by people asking how to get back to the designer products page.

I only see the new gray toolbar (replaced the blue one) at the top of the product page.

To get back to the all products view, just close the the product you are looking at (back arrow). I tried this with all of the gray list options. In one of the edit options, the selections were grayed out. I refreshed the page and the selections came back.

[Windy]

Ah! Okay, I never even thought to do that! That works!

[Mistica]

I can't document all the variation of the process in which I go back to the products page.  I will say that it is the most hit link...probably 90% of my clicks are to the products page.

[Windy]

And I spoke too soon.....now that I am reworking a few cards I made today, I find that I redesign the card, click publish, then use the GO THERE NOW button so I can add to collection. Next what I WANT to do is to go to the All Products page. But the back button just returns me to the publishing page where I had just clicked the GO THERE NOW button.

[Mistica]

Yes. It all has become automatic .. but I do know that I click that button all the time. If feels really awkward now creating products. It has been slowed down a whole lot.

[Barbara]

The browser's back arrow works well in the case where you began on your products page, as is being discussed here, but I just now realized that if you start on your Earnings page and go to Royalties where you click on a sale, the back arrow will then return you to Earnings where lies the reason I long ago bookmarked my products page. Earnings also has no link to products. Given that our most frequent trip is to products, we could use links to it from all over the place.

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[ColsCreations]

Like you, I long ago bookmarked my All Products page and many more for Zazzle. They're in a folder on my Bookmarks Toolbar so no matter where I've scrolled on a page, anywhere I want to go is always right there. I have another folder for forum pages. I can go anywhere I need to go on Zazzle in two easy clicks (one to open the folder from the toolbar, one to select the site from the list). Browsers have a Bookmarks and Bookmarks Toolbar function for a reason; so we don't have to rely on a site's own nav links. 😉

[Windy]

I am having to re-accustom myself to bookmarks. I stopped using them back when del.icio.us went back to beta in 2011 or something. I had put some work into my bookmarks set up there, and when it was gone, I did not want to start again. Same thing happened with iTunes when my entire library went missing for no apparent reason because of some stray button I hit, I guess. SO MUCH work down the drain. I will never categorize songs again.

The is the future of all websites. 

But I am trying to learn this silly little iPad bookmarking thing now....... 

[Barbara]

Our problem is that we all know where we're going but we're having a hard time getting there. It reminds me of the traffic circle they built in my area that connects to another circle, which connects to a third circle. You never know where you'll end up.

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[BKMuir]

I too have products tap bookmarked. I recently discovered that my bookmarks have increased to an overflow drop down menu. My go-to when not certain what to hit, is still the back arrow.

As I mentioned at the beginning of the new forum, I type in my different store names in the address bar. I.E. when I want to review LAST VIEWED stats for all stores I start with the current store and select the LAST VIEWED from the sort tab: https://www.zazzle.com/store/STORENAME/products?st=LastViewedDate.

I just type in the next STORENAME to jump to the last viewed sort for that store. Much faster than waiting for the store to open up, click the sort button, wait for the sort.