v8 actinic.
I have specifications of products, held in external files, there's too many of them to hold inside actinic.
I have library layouts that use PHP to retrive the actual product code from within actinic, looks up the correct data-file (based upon product code) and formats the contents into 100% html, works fine.
If I have duplicates (many of them), I change the main body text, titles for SEO, etc and my php code still detects the parent product to include correct idential specifications for the duplicates
If I change the data in the individual specifications, how does actinic know that its changed and it needs uploading? - does it do a checksum on the total layout or something?
if actinic would NOT know that the underlying data (external file) has changed, then I still need to "flag" that change somewhere so that actinic would then upload the affected products upon next upload.
at the mo, we have a small php code that says "this has been affected, so change these products" the user then goes into each product (and duplicates) affected, adds a space in the title, saves it back to actinic, then removes the temporary space in the title and re-saves - actinic thinks "oh, its changed, lets re-upload it"
there's got to be an easier way, where can I change the flag to say "its changed, plese re-upload"
its got to be inside actinic somewhere, I've searched the forums, found a couple of old treads purporting to know where "changed flag" is held but that field never changes when I add/remove the space from the title,
so , where do I tweak actinic.mdb to force actinic to re-upload particular products please
kev
I have specifications of products, held in external files, there's too many of them to hold inside actinic.
I have library layouts that use PHP to retrive the actual product code from within actinic, looks up the correct data-file (based upon product code) and formats the contents into 100% html, works fine.
If I have duplicates (many of them), I change the main body text, titles for SEO, etc and my php code still detects the parent product to include correct idential specifications for the duplicates
If I change the data in the individual specifications, how does actinic know that its changed and it needs uploading? - does it do a checksum on the total layout or something?
if actinic would NOT know that the underlying data (external file) has changed, then I still need to "flag" that change somewhere so that actinic would then upload the affected products upon next upload.
at the mo, we have a small php code that says "this has been affected, so change these products" the user then goes into each product (and duplicates) affected, adds a space in the title, saves it back to actinic, then removes the temporary space in the title and re-saves - actinic thinks "oh, its changed, lets re-upload it"
there's got to be an easier way, where can I change the flag to say "its changed, plese re-upload"
its got to be inside actinic somewhere, I've searched the forums, found a couple of old treads purporting to know where "changed flag" is held but that field never changes when I add/remove the space from the title,
so , where do I tweak actinic.mdb to force actinic to re-upload particular products please
kev