Re: Flagging Parts that have been superceded...

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Fleming
Thanks David, I'll work in that direction. Rick "David E. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rick, Whatever you do this will require some customization of the templates and/or cart code. There is actually a data structure for modeling replacement products. The entity is called ProductA

Re: Flagging Parts that have been superceded...

2007-01-24 Thread David E. Jones
Rick, Whatever you do this will require some customization of the templates and/or cart code. There is actually a data structure for modeling replacement products. The entity is called ProductAssoc, and in the Catalog Manager you can find it on the "Assocs" tab for a product. You'd hav

Re: Flagging Parts that have been superceded...

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Fleming
I think I stumbled upon an anwer on my own. Substitutions are big in my industry. For items that sub, we change the "require inventory" flag to yes. That way when we're out of the old inventory, these items automatically create an error(alert) when one tries to add to the cart or order. No

Flagging Parts that have been superceded...

2007-01-23 Thread Richard Fleming
Hello all - Has anyone dealt with supercedures in any nifty way? For instance, Maytag's old belt1 is now replaced with the new and improved belt2. Is there any way to flag or at least alert a user to the change in either sales order or cart checkout? Could a product "id" type of "Su