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Forum Name: Using ProductCart
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Topic: Secret Products

Posted By: doorsdown
Subject: Secret Products
Date Posted: 21-September-2007 at 2:48pm

Does anyone Know how to have a product available to purchase by anyone but not have it easily accesable from the storefront. That way just certian people I send a link to could land on the product for purchase. And that they may not yet be customers registered yet.

Bill

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 21-September-2007 at 6:20pm

How about assign them to a hidden category?

Posted By: doorsdown
Date Posted: 22-September-2007 at 7:58pm

I did, but then I cant access the product at all, unless someone know how?

Thank you

Posted By: MarkCoyle
Date Posted: 22-September-2007 at 8:08pm

Off the top of my head - what about making them a normal product but not associated with any categories?

Then you can just give the direct link out.

cheers
Mark

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-September-2007 at 9:35pm

doorsdown wrote:

I did, but then I cant access the product at all, unless someone know how?Thank you

Can't you form a URL to the product detail page for the specific product? If the product is active, and a member of a category that is set to not show in the store, you should be able to pull up the product. That's exactly what I do for testing things when we need to create a product with special characteristics for a mod I'm working on.

Posted By: doorsdown
Date Posted: 25-September-2007 at 11:02am

How do you get the url for the product?

I did try to add it to a category, get the url, then hide the category.

When I go beck to the url that I had it says the category is no there, and no
product.

maybe you have some insight to this, Thank you.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 25-September-2007 at 12:50pm

well, here is a demo store. Note that a category called "hidden" which DOES exist DOES NOT appear
http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc3apparel/pc/viewcategories.asp - http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc3apparel/pc/viewcate gories.asp

This product is assigned to that category:
http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc3apparel/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=540 - http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc3apparel/pc/viewPrd. asp?idproduct=540

I formed the URL by clicking the "preview in your storefront" link and removed the "&adminPreview=1" from the resulting URL.