Notes for OUT of STOCK item

[Yanni]

On every product I would like to have a box that I can put notes such as:
"Expected back in stock October 11th", when an item goes out of stock.

If the item is in stock I'd like actinic to ignore this message.
How do I make a text box inside Item Properties and then how it all works with the if command and variables ?

Thanks...

[NormanRouxel]

The Advanced Guide has an article "Including the Stock Level into the Store Pages" that also shows how to display a message when the stock is at a certain level. Modify that to display your own BackInStock variable if the count is 0 or below.

[TraceyHand]

You need to create a custom variable for the message, firstly. Text variable for you to enter the message into, at product level.

Insert it into the layout surrounded by the condition IsStockEnabled and IsInStock == FALSE (pseudo-code, obviously) and it should then only display when product is out of stock

Alternatively, you could set it to display when StockLevel == 0 rather than using the IsInStock condition.

I think that's right anyway. Been a while since I was in that part of the code!

[TraceyHand]

there's actually a variable for IsOutOfStockShown too, which might be useful

[Yanni]

Fantastic, Thanks.

I'll go with TraceyHand's suggestions as I need a different message for different products rather than a generic message for all items that are out of stock i.e. some items might be back in stock earlier than others.

Thanks again guys...