I think this is a bug (or is it an undocumented feature?)
We use a linked database to store our product details, all products are held in this database and then linked into Actinic.
If an unallocated product is added into a particular actinic site by dragging and dropping, it then adds this data into the ActinicCatalog.mdb database.
However if you then alter this product from within the site, only the external database is updated, not ActinicCatalog.mdb
This causes a number of problem. ie. If you edit a product desription, and then create a duplicate (which we do) the duplicate has the pre-edited description. Also if you edit the price, although the price appears to have been changed, when you add the product to your cart, the old price is used.
To solve this actinic needs to update both the external and internal databases when changes are made. It also needs to sync the databases on startup so that if changes have been made in the external database, these are then synched into the ActinicCatalog.mdb (internal) database.
As a workround we have to edit products, then delete them, then add them in again from the unallocated products list (and also re create any duplicates that we wish to reflect the changes).
We use a linked database to store our product details, all products are held in this database and then linked into Actinic.
If an unallocated product is added into a particular actinic site by dragging and dropping, it then adds this data into the ActinicCatalog.mdb database.
However if you then alter this product from within the site, only the external database is updated, not ActinicCatalog.mdb
This causes a number of problem. ie. If you edit a product desription, and then create a duplicate (which we do) the duplicate has the pre-edited description. Also if you edit the price, although the price appears to have been changed, when you add the product to your cart, the old price is used.
To solve this actinic needs to update both the external and internal databases when changes are made. It also needs to sync the databases on startup so that if changes have been made in the external database, these are then synched into the ActinicCatalog.mdb (internal) database.
As a workround we have to edit products, then delete them, then add them in again from the unallocated products list (and also re create any duplicates that we wish to reflect the changes).
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