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    What settings to make for Duplicate records

    Having stuggled on I give up!!! and will have to seek the advice of the great and good.

    I'm trying to configure actinic v 7 for a book business. Have loaded about 5000 books as products, sorted into sections by Author with the display on website setting set in the upload file to either 0 or 1, so that about 3000 show as available on the web. All fine and dandy.

    However I also need to have the web site displaying the same 3000 books sorted into catalagues for say Clock books or watch books etc.

    This I have done by creating additional sections called Clocks, Watches etc and the hierarchical upload file has successfully distinguished the products books in those sections as duplicates. ( although the upload indicates its loading 10000 odd records) However I can't find any setting to force the display of the duplicate to automatically mimic the setting of the parent as to whether it is displayed on the website or not.

    With so many items of single stock product I need to have a way of just updating the parent product settings once so that duplicate means duplicate ie if I take the parent off the site, I need the duplicate to automatically drop off whichever sub catalogue it is in.

    Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Should I some how have created the subject cataloues in a different way? Otherwise the set up is all a bit useless for site maintenance purposes.

    Thanks for all those budding helpful hints, Nigel
    Last edited by Shentonbooks; 07-Jun-2005, 02:36 PM. Reason: clearer question

    #2
    Hi Nigel,

    There is no function in Actinic currently do allow you to 'update' all duplicate. If you create a product in Actinic, then copy and paste it as a duplicate. The duplicate will use the same layout as the original. However if you make a change in the original product, the same change will not appear on the duplicate.

    Actinic treats the original product and duplicate as separate, so if you hide a product, it will not hide the duplicate product I'm afraid.

    Kind Regards
    Nadeem Rasool
    SellerDeck Development

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      #3
      Thanks for response, but its obviously a bit of a blow as from the point of view of the practicality of running a web business with a changing stcock its important to be able to advertise items for sale in various categories and also to quickly and easily synchronise all the sections with a change made at master level. The support team have suggested to me this is a bug which might be fixed in a future release. Is there much prospect of this please in the next month or so before I decide to purchase actinic.

      If I exported from actinic back to a hierarchical file would there be a field that I could add a setting in to to quickly synchronise all changes and then reimport?

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        #4
        Hi,

        Is there much prospect of this please in the next month or so before I decide to purchase actinic.
        This is not really a bug but a feature. I'm afraid that it will not be fixed within the next month. The list of fixes for the next release has not yet been finalised and then once the fixes have been implemented it has to go through full testing so it will be a while yet and there are no guarantees that this will make it into the next minor release.

        If I exported from actinic back to a hierarchical file would there be a field that I could add a setting in to to quickly synchronise all changes and then reimport?
        I don't think there is an easy way to do this unless you know how to create queries/macros within Excel or Access to either manipulate the spreadsheet or the ActinicCatalog.mdb file directly. In the spreadsheet you would need to set the 'Hide on website' field or in Access it is the Product table and the 'bSupressHTML' field.
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        Tracey
        SellerDeck

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          #5
          The support team have suggested to me this is a bug which might be fixed in a future release. Is there much prospect of this please in the next month or so before I decide to purchase actinic.
          No, I'm afraid not. This would be something that would be fixed in a major release, which only come out every 12-18 months.
          If I exported from actinic back to a hierarchical file would there be a field that I could add a setting in to to quickly synchronise all changes and then reimport?
          I'm afraid there isn't any way to do this that I know if. What I would suggest in Actinic is using the 'Edt | Find' command to find all the duplicates you need to change in the tree and update their details manually. I appreciate it falls far short of what you would like Actinic to do, but it would work - and take less time then a hierarchical export/import.

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