View Products different in VM3.0.16

[Shimon Hirschhorn]

Hello,

I just upgraded to VM3.0.16 and the behavior of the back end has changed.

It used to be if I entered a SKU in the "Search Product" field and set the Vendor to "Please Select" the results would have products from ANY vendor.  (like a * in a search).

Now I get no results.  The vendor dropdown must have a selection.

Is this a bug or a feature?  or perhaps my install got screwed up. 

Can I change it so that I get results of products from any vendor ?

Thanks in advance.

[Jörgen]

Upgraded from what

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=79799.0

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[Shimon Hirschhorn]

Sorry.  You are correct.

I upgraded VM from VM3.0.14 to VM3.0.16 and then upgraded J! from J!3.4.8 to j!3.5.1

So now I have J3.5.1 and VM3.0.16

Since this has been significant in the past let me mention that VM is in multi-vendor mode.
Most of the products have a virtuemart_vendor_id of the correct vendor.  Some are set to 1 (default).  Some have a 0 - which poses a problem to view.

The administration Products search now requires me to enter a Vendor.  If I leave the Vendor dropdown as "Please Select" no products are returned.

This is not very convenient.

Is there a workaround ?  Is this a bug or intentional ?

[Shimon Hirschhorn]

I solved this problem by restoring J3.4.8 and VM3.0.16

I gather that multi-vendor is not a priority in the development.

[jenkinhill]

It is intended that no vendor can easily view the products of another vendor. This is related;  http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=134344.0

[Shimon Hirschhorn]

Thanks !

At least I know what is going on now.

If the current functionality stays the same I will need to get out of mulitvendor mode.
Perhaps I will use extra data to indicate where a product is shipped from.