You just need to fill the values in ‘Quick simple product creation’ box & press ‘Quick create’ button.

However, if you want to create big amount of simple products, its painful to fill the form every time.

In my case, I had to create simple product for the T-shirt. I have to choose the Style from the drop down, then color from the drop down & the size from the drop down. There were about 280 combinations. So I had to create 280 simple products.

Then I decided to create a script which can make the process of creating simple products very fast.

I took the inner HTML of ‘Quick simple product creation’ box, did some modifications.

Quick simple product creation










Name *


 Autogenerate
[STORE VIEW]
 


SKU *


 Autogenerate
[GLOBAL]
 


Status *


-- Please Select --
Enabled
Disabled


[WEBSITE]
 


Visibility *


-- Please Select --
Nowhere
Catalog
Search
Catalog, Search


[STORE VIEW]
 


Style *




		
Men
Hoodies
Women
Kids




Product with this combination of attributes already associated to configurable.




 


Color *




		
Black
Creme
Lemon
Pink
Baby Blue
Navy
Asphalt
Blue
Brown
Gray
Green
Magneta
Red
Silver
White




Product with this combination of attributes already associated to configurable.




 


Size *




		
X Large
X Small
XX Large
XXX Large
Small
Medium
Large




Product with this combination of attributes already associated to configurable.




 


Qty *



 


Stock Availability


In Stock
Out of Stock



 
















    Quick Create
    

 

If you want to use the above script, follow the steps below:
Set the array with the id of the size labels.

var style = new Array();
style['size'] = new Array(100,99,98,136,135,134);
style['sizename'] = new Array('small','medium','large','xl','xxl','xxxl');

Create the colors array, here the key will be the label id of the attribute & the value can be anything which will used in the name of the simple product you are going to create

var colors = new Array();
colors[24] = "black";
colors[150] = "creme";
.
.
.

.

Example:

I want to create simple product having the attributes as per below:
Style: Men
Color: Black
Size: Small

So I can set the colorkey with value 24 (on line 44).

colorkey = 24;

Set the style on line 48.

frmObj.elements['simple_product[style]'].value = 125;

Save the file & run it in browser. You will see the screen as below.

Press the Quick create button. This will submit the form to your host. Make sure that you are logged in as Admin in your Magento setup.

In this case the form will submitted six times, each time with different value of shirt size. As a result six products will be inserted with Black color, in Man style with size different sizes.

The mechanism above is bit tricky & awkward. Let me know your doubts in comments.

I used this in the module which I created with Module Creator.
I supposed to show the uploaded image on the edit form on Admin. The images are uploaded by the user from the front end.

For displaying the thumbnail, by default there is no way in Magento.
So I created a new class ‘Varien_Data_Form_Element_Thumbnail’ & named it Thumbnail.php.

class Varien_Data_Form_Element_Thumbnail extends Varien_Data_Form_Element_Abstract
{
    public function __construct($data)
    {
        parent::__construct($data);
        $this->setType('file');
    }

    public function getElementHtml()
    {
        $html = '';

        if ($this->getValue()) {
            $url = $this->_getUrl();

            if( !preg_match("/^http\:\/\/|https\:\/\//", $url) ) {
                $url = Mage::getBaseUrl('media') . $url;
            }

            $html = ' ';
        }
        $this->setClass('input-file');
        $html.= parent::getElementHtml();

        return $html;
    }

    protected function _getUrl()
    {
        return $this->getValue();
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return  $this->getData('name');
    }
}

Copy the file at ‘/lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/’.

To Display the thumbnail, inside the function _prepareForm() write the code below. (In my case I edited the file.. ‘app/code/local/Mage/Modulename/Block/Adminhtml/Modulename/Edit/Tab/Form.php’. This module was created with Module Creator)

$form = new Varien_Data_Form();
      $this->setForm($form);
      $fieldset = $form->addFieldset('modulename_form', array('legend'=>Mage::helper('modulename')->__('Module information')));
      $tempArray = array(
	          'label'     => Mage::helper('arequets')->__('Sample Work'),
	          'name'      => 'samplefilename',
	          'style'     => 'display:none;',
		  );
      $fieldset->addField('samplefilename', 'thumbnail',$tempArray);

Here, ‘samplefilename’ should be the path of the thumbnail.