Duplicates.

[Steve G Griggs]

It would be a big help if there was more choice in the product duplicates settings specifically I need to have Duplicates of a particular item for a series of Model a type of appliance. The thing is I need to be able to have editable text on the extended info pages, but keep the pictures on each extended info page the same. At present I can only do this by editing each extended info pages image link individually- with sometimes 20-30 of them this is very time consuming.
I appreciate that this is due to the database structure, but is it possible to change this in next version of Actinic?

[Mike Hughes]

Steve, I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to do.

Duplicates are for showing the same thing in different places.

If you have a series of models, does each one not have it's own product ID and wouldn't you then be better off copying and pasting a new product for each one?

Mike

[Steve G Griggs]

Duplicates

Hi Mike.
This is indeed what I'm doing.
What I am doing is for example: glass turntable for microwave oven, one tray 250mm diameter will fit maybe 20 models- obviously I want the same pictures in each item shown but a different model number in the description such as Glass tray to fit Sanyo EM2222 microwave oven. We have the glass tray listed once in a hidden master list, and the duplicates appear for each model number that it fits.
Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well, it's a complicated idea to get across.
Steve

[TraceyG]

Hi Steve,

I'm not sure I understand the problem here either. If you copy a product that has an extended info page with an image in it and paste it as a duplicate the image stays the same (even if it is editable in duplicate). I don't know why you have to edit the image link. Have I misunderstood?

[Steve G Griggs]

Duplicates

Ok Tracey, I didn't explain very well, it's when I update a picture in the original product's extended info page. At the moment I can edit both product and text or have both linked to the original product, but I can't keep the image link fixed and edit the text. I'm having real difficulty explaining this one, I hope I have got over my meaning this time.

[TraceyG]

I get it now. I don't know why all of the extended info fields are linked so they all are editable or not but I'll add this to the wish-list for you.

[Steve G Griggs]

Thanks

Thanks Tracey.
It will be great if they can. Sorry if I was being a bit obscure in my explanation. I was having a baaaad day when I wrote the original post.
Thanks for sticking with that one.