New Arrivals Order?

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   Question: Is their anyway of taking an existing item and making it a new item?

My problem: I've had products for years, but I have fully updated the product - so it's a basically a new product - but it still has the same part number since it's updated.

Therefore - any way of making it a new product without deleting it from the product cart database and re-entering it as a new product?

Or do I have to goto the actual sql database and update the field?

Thanks,
Gary Stark 
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mrindian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 31-October-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrindian Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31-October-2008 at 4:47pm
	Question: Is their anyway of taking an existing item and making it a new item? My problem: I've had products for years, but I have fully updated the product - so it's a basically a new product - but it still has the same part number since it's updated. Therefore - any way of making it a new product without deleting it from the product cart database and re-entering it as a new product? Or do I have to goto the actual sql database and update the field? Thanks, Gary Stark _popupControl();

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31-October-2008 at 5:04pm
	Hi Gary, Set them as "Featured Products" instead of "New Arrivals".
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rotokirby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 22-April-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote rotokirby Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31-October-2008 at 5:06pm
	How about cloning it, then de-activating the original product. In my experience the only thing that isn't cloned are "additional" photos.
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mrindian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 31-October-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrindian Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31-October-2008 at 10:15pm
	Thanks for the suggestions - I've listed them as featured products also (sometimes) but I like the automatic feature of "New Arrivals". In my business - making parts for Antique Indian Motorcycles, People don't come to the online store until they need a part, so I like to show all new arrivals for the past 365 days. This lets customers now we are making new stuff for their bikes, and not just keeping existing items in stock... I can try the cloning feature, just looking for an easy way to modify the entry date. If it could be added in a future release... <> Just a check mark - reset product arrival date(or whatever ei would call it. Gary

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03-November-2008 at 7:00am
	Certainly a good suggestion for the future. Right now ProductCart only saves the date a product was added on ("pcprod_EnteredOn" in the "products" table). There could be another field that would store the date that the product has been modified on (which at the beginning would have the same date as "pcprod_EnteredOn"), and a way to tell the "Show New Arrivals" feature to use that date instead of the "pcprod_EnteredOn" date. This is also something that an ASP developer could do quite easily (more involved for us as we need to update all of the add-on's that use the same files).
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