Adding values to a magento dropdown or multi-select product attribute while adding a new product

Question

I'm wondering if anyone has found or written an extension that would allow a magento website administrator the ability to add values to their products attribute while adding the product. For example, if I sell books and want the book author to be in a drop down list so that it would be used in layered navigation, it seems odd that I would have to add the author via the attributes section before adding the product. From a workflow standpoint it really makes sense to have an "add new value" button next to the drop down on my add product screen.

Anyone have any thoughts or insight?

Answer 1

It's a piece of cake to do, if you know jquery and the (if I may guess) extremely simple model behind magento.

As the other guy said, throw some money and I'll do it ;)

Otherwise, real easy -> find where that dropdown is generated, add a button next to it that opens a popup which you fill "create a new thingie" stuff, create button -> +create +close +refresh your dropdown.

Definitely easy.

And considering the attribute dialog already exists in the tool you cold probably take most from there and just add the popup handlers / button / +refresh .