[SOLVED] Clone products unpublished

[gba]

Hi all!

I just noticed, that a cloned product has the same published status as the original product.
This seems to me not very practicable, as normally a 100% clone makes no sense in the shop - usually some modifications are made with a cloned product.
Therefore the clone function should, in my opinion, behave like i.e. cloning Joomla Modules: Being unpublished.

What do you think about that?

Kind regards,
Gerald

[Jumbo!]

+1 from my side.

[Uke]

Yes i agree, it should be unpublished by default.

(And the "product_sales" field should be set to 0 and not be copy from the original?)

[gba]

(And the "product_sales" field should be set to 0 and not be copy from the original?)

Do you mean the field 'product_ordered'?

[Milbo]

There is a new hidden config, called product.published,
just use product.published=0
But is done within 5 minutes and yes I had the same idea some weeks ago.

that a cloned product has the same published status as the original product.
This seems to me not very practicable, as normally a 100% clone makes no sense in the shop - usually some modifications are made with a cloned product.

right

[Jörgen]

Hello

No he means product_sales. I have made this visible in the backend with a override of the Product view. I see that it copies the value from the product that is cloned. In my case it is easy to both correct and see the actual sales figure.

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[Milbo]

Jörgen product_sales and product_ordered makes only sense together.

[gba]

Thanks for fixing! 

[Jörgen]

@ Milbo

Jörgen product_sales and product_ordered makes only sense together.

Yes I know this, in my case I have all three together in the admin Product Status view and can make an educated evaluation of the sales. But so far when I have cloned a product I inherit an old sales figure. If I later decide use this data in a sql Query I will get the wrong information. Now I can correct the inherited sales and also at a glance see if this is a shelf warmer or a hot selling item. The new configuration setting does not make this totally unneccesary, seeing the sales here is imho a good feature.

Here´s my litte snippet, added to administrato/templates/isis/html/com_virtuemart/product/product_edit_status.php, approx line 50.

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<!-- sales -->
<th style="text-align:right;">
<?php echo vmText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_PRODUCT_SALES'); ?>
</th>
<td colspan="3">
<input type="text" class="inputbox" name="product_sales" value="<?php echo $this->product->product_sales; ?>" size="3" />
</td>
<!-- end sales -->

I have been using this override since VM 1.1.

My best regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[GJC Web Design]

What worries me about this post is that afaik not one poster is a native English speaker but all posts are grammatically perfect...

Oh .. if only English speakers could write like this....... 

[Jörgen]

Thank You GJC , I think 

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[GJC Web Design]

yes. it was a honest compliment to your collective word skills in a 2nd language.. ..  impressed 

[jenkinhill]

OK, GJ, now let's deal with your poor use of punctuation and capitalisation, starting with this lesson from an old friend of mine.  http://www.dreaded-apostrophe.com

[GJC Web Design]

he he...  I never included myself in the praise.. 

I now pride myself on speaking and writing a sort of NW European gibberish ... having had a good grounding in a 7 house, 1 pub, 1 garage and 1 schoolroom NZ town in the  wop wops....

[jenkinhill]