Changing products 'this item has weight' using 'Update Attributes' is not possible

[hostep]

Preconditions

1. Magento CE 2.1.0
2. Have some virtual products in your catalogue

Steps to reproduce

1. Select a couple of virtual products in the product grid in the backend
2. Choose 'Update Attributes' in the 'Actions' dropdown
3. Search for the weight field, you'll find it
4. Search for the 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight' dropdown, you won't find it

Expected result

1. Expected to find the dropdown with the choices 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight'

Actual result

1. No dropdown with choice 'This item has weight' or 'This item has no weight' found

I wanted to change a couple of 100 products which were Virtual Products because the weight setting was set to 'This item has no weight' to Simple Products using Update Attributes.
But this currently doesn't work, I have to open all those products manually one by one to change them to a Simple Product which is no fun :(

[sevos1984]

This is a known issue MAGETWO-45066, thanks for reporting

[flipflap]

When can we expect this option? It is very important to change config simple products to hast weight as guest checkout fails if they don't have.

[flipflap]

Any news about this issue?

[Jimgitsit]

Any workaround such as a DB query?

[flipflap]

I don't know exactly how to do it with a DB query. I think it should be a part of "update attributes". Other user may also need it.

[jeanpham]

Any update on this issue? It's just crazy this bug is still in there

[tek-moe]

This is a critical issue since it can easily compound with configurable products. My client has to go through 50+ records at a time just to change from a virtual product to simple product by changing the weight attribute flag to "this item has weight". You can even give that virtual product a weight via mass attribute change and the flag will still display as this item has no weight with an integer assigned to wieght which clearly indicates that there is weight.

[flipflap]

Seems not yet fixed in Magento 2.1.4 :-(
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/release-notes/ReleaseNotes2.1.4CE.html

[illyalvov]

What about 2.1.5?

[flipflap]

Unfortunately, I think not:

This release updates the copyright date in every file. It does not contain any functional changes or security improvements.

[Shimon2]

I had a similar problem. I wanted to import them as Virtual products. The standard import won't do this. My work around for now was to go into the database and simply set the type_id to "virtual"
I created a CSV that had sku and product_type.
I imported it into the database. It became TABLE360.
I then ran the following SQL

update catalog_product_entity c
set c.type_id = "virtual"
where c.sku in
(select im.sku
from TABLE360 im
where
im.product_type = "virtual" );

So far so good.

[Fab-z4qx]

Still any patch for this issue... What is the schedule for Magento release ?

[amcastror]

Hi, any ideas how to update "this item has weight" directly into the database? Any help would be appreciated.

[flipflap]

I used this SQL statement in phpMyadmin and that changed all virtual products to simple products:

update mg_catalog_product_entity set type_id = ‚simple' where type_id = 'virtual';

[magento-engcom-team]

@hostep, thank you for your report.
We've created internal ticket(s) MAGETWO-45066, MAGETWO-80256 to track progress on the issue.

[magento-engcom-team]

Hi @hostep. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in #26075 by @Bartlomiejsz in 2.4-develop branch
Related commit(s):

• 2506c0824c4db0819ce4e8519992f21cabdd2a59
• f6f414b7feb964192742795e2a82e2db042d76ae
• 36738ecd4c8a7ad1f5b445c96d1bcd1289f65cb8

The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.4.0 release.

[ajay1987kumar]

UPDATE catalog_product_entity SET type_id = 'simple' WHERE catalog_product_entity.type_id = 'virtual';

this worked for me!!!!!!!
it will make you product with "item has weight"