Manage stock qtys outside of Actinic

[paulbeckett]

Hi

Does anyone manage stock levels and hide/unhide products outside of Actinic? We find Actinic very slow to update products.

Presumably I could create a simple query and point it at the live database??!?!? We currently run lots of read-only queries on a back-up but I have never been brave enough to run against live before.

Does anyone else have experience in this sort of thing?

Paul

[fergusw]

Many people use the External Link feature of Actinic to link it to an external data source such as a database or spreadsheet that contains the product reference and stock levels.
This means that you can link Actinic to existing stock level data sources and allow a two-way updating of stock levels between Actinic and your datasource.

Is this what you are after? or have I missed a salient point in your post?

[paulbeckett]

Many people use the External Link feature of Actinic to link it to an external data source such as a database or spreadsheet that contains the product reference and stock levels.

Hi, yes. This is exactly want I want....I missed this feature. I will look up about it now. I had presumed I would have to build it myself. Whilst I am happy to write database queries as information only / read only (on a back-up) I wouldn't be so happy to do it on live as a writeable query. The "External Link feature of Actinic" makes me feel happier!

Paul

[paulbeckett]

External Link feature of Actinic

Ah... the reason I didn't know about it was that it is a Business or Developer function. I am only on Catalog. This and the promotions/coupon aspect would definately be worth it but I suspect v7 Business is not available anymore.

(Yes, I am upgrading to v8 and v9 but not until the end of this year)

Paul

[paulbeckett]

I suspect v7 Business is not available anymore

Ah, it is still available and with cover I can get a free upgrade to v9 later this year. Great!

Paul

[paulbeckett]

I suspect v7 Business is not available anymore

Ah, it is still available and with cover I can get a free upgrade to v9 later this year. Great!

Paul