I am busy to migrate the old site Joomla 1.5.23 and VM 1.1.3 to the newer version.
It looks very promising and I have problems with the old VM so I thought it is time to be up-to-date.
One thing that is important for me is an easy product creation. For example If there is a new inkpad on the market it has 36 different colors.
Now I use the extended layout in the old VM. When I copy a product it opens in a new tab and I can change the article number, name and picture and click on "save" . A pop-up tells me the product is saved and I can change the number, name and picture again.
Cloning looks similar but after cloning a product is is saved somewhere in the list of products. When I have found this product I have to edit the product and save and close it. This takes a lot of time. We have 3000 products in our store and are expanding rapidly.
I hope you understand what I mean ???
Is there a way to do this more efficient in VM2.0?
Joomla 2.5 uses the save2new task for articles. This would be a great addition to VM2.
Because i also needed this function i made a smal hack (just temporary until VM supports it)
It will make the 'save'-button act as a save2new button and clone the product.
In 'administrator/components/com_virtuemart/controllers/product.php' add on line 61:
(virtuemart 2.0.2)
if(JRequest::getCmd('task') == 'apply'){
$data['virtuemart_product_id'] = '';
}
The save&close button will still act as normal.
I'ts a temprorary fix, I wouldn't recommend this for a production site.
Hi Bauke,
Thanks I think this will work as a workaroumd for my problem.
But can someone tell me if something like this is planned as new feature in VM2.
Thanks again
Does anybody know if this is something that can/will be implemented in VM2 in the future ?
I use csv improved for this
http://www.csvimproved.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=778:custom-fields-import-and-export&catid=181:tutorials&Itemid=101