Adding a second reference number to a product?

[Curiosity101]

I'm having a bit of a problem.
1. I've never used actinic before today
2. I've looked through every guide going several times and I still can't find anything that is helping me.

Basically I have some products which I need to put in that have an old reference number that's still printed in some customers catalogues. Personally I think the company should just send them a new updated one, but I don't get to decide. Instead I need to add the old reference number along with the new one.

So that whether the old or new one is searched for the same item comes up. Obviously I could do the easy thing of just dulicating the item and changing the reference number but I don't want to do that. Due to it possibly causing confusion when a customer thinks they are two different items, when they are infact the same one just with two numbers.

Hope that makes sense and that someone can help. :-)

[leehack]

You'd need about 2 weeks to read through every guide, not just a day lol.

Hows about setting up the new product with the new reference and adding the old reference number into the description field?

[Goz]

If you're not using the Extended Info, you can put the old reference into the Extended Info text - the search will pick that up.

[Curiosity101]

Ok so maybe by read through every guide what I actually mean is pressed ctrl+f and searched for various phrases in every guide I could find and didn't find anything useful. My point was I did try. lol.

I thought about adding it into the description. I'm waiting to suggest it to my boss. But I was just wondering in the mean time, if someone who knew quite a bit more about it, would know of a better way.