Design snapshot

[RuralWeb]

then I'm really missing something

Yes you are

[Orchid]

Yes you are

care to fill me in?

[RuralWeb]

care to fill me in?

Ive not got the time to sit and post a step by step guide.

[Orchid]

Ive not got the time to sit and post a step by step guide.

If it requires a step by step quide then my point holds true a design-snapshot up arrow in designer and design-snapshot down arrow in catalog-client would make things much simpler.

[RuralWeb]

My god its not that hard to work out:

Create snapshot
Add to additional files
Upload Site
Send url link to client
Client downloads (NO ftp software required)
Client imports

Job DONE

[Orchid]

but if the client has added products in the meantime my refresh overwrites his latest upload. And the point of a design snapshot is that it only sends design elements not products.

[RuralWeb]

And the point of a design snapshot

You can send any type of snapshot

[Orchid]

but a refresh will overwrite the client's products

[Orchid]

ah light dawns - you mean that you've got the site set to the test server.

However being as this is in the wish list forum I still think my suggestion would be intuitive and easier for the client and the designer.

[RuralWeb]

Upload then - typo

[RuralWeb]

However being as this is in the wish list forum I still think my suggestion would be intuitive and easier for the client and the designer

As I said in my first post - "you can do most of this already".

But agreed if it can be made a bit easier then so be it but its not that hard to do at the moment.

[TraceyHand]

a design-snapshot up arrow in designer and design-snapshot down arrow in catalog-client would make things much simpler.

FWIW, I think that's a great idea!

[RuralWeb]

If you are going to do it then you need one the other way as well as quite often snapshots are required from the client. Currently the additional files option is not available in client.

[Duncan Rounding]

It may make things easier, although I'm not fully convinced, but it would need some care regarding security. The snapshot may have to reside in a known path on the server and if the default naming convention is used then anyone with a little knowledge of the software would be able to find the file and download it.

[RuralWeb]

if the default naming convention is used then anyone with a little knowledge of the software would be able to find the file and download it

This is true so it will need a random file name generator to ensure some sort of security. Perhaps the client copy can delete the snapshot on download and the designer have a timed dlete of say 24hrs after which it deletes the snapshot from the server.