Duplicating Sections/Product Codes

[Charlesn]

Hi All,

Quick question.

I'm creating a site for a customer to sell fireworks online. They are arranged according to the size of the firing location (so you wont end up buying HUGE fireworks for your 8ft x 8ft patio). As the gardens increase in size you need to be able to choose from the fireworks in the previous smaller sections (as you are no longer limited by size). If I duplicate all the fireworks in the database, will they all need different product codes? Ideally they need to share them.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks
Charles

[RussellPing]

I'm am also looking for an answer to this, we sell cleaning products for floors etc and some products are in both the bathroom and bedroom section at the moment i have HG500 and HG500i the problem is that it goes to about HG500viiv and looks very silly.

Regards

Russell
http://www.store.everyday-essentials.co.uk

[cdicken]

Support for duplicate products is a standard feature in v7. To do it in v6 you need to use components - here's how:

1. Copy and paste the imported product to a second location within your store. You may need to supply an alternative product reference (unless you are automatically generating product references). Enter a new product reference and click 'OK'. This new product is now a 'slave' product.

2. Go into this 'slave' product and go to the 'Stock' tab. Un-tick where it says 'Stock Monitoring'.

3. Do a right-click on this new product and select 'New Component'.

4. Enter a name of 'Associated Product' and press [Enter] on your keyboard.

5. Double-click on the component and click on the 'Associated Product' field. Select your original 'master' product from the drop-down list.

6. Also select 'Name from Associated Product' and 'Price from Associated Product'.

7. Select 'Component as Separate Order Line' and click 'OK'.

8. Go into the 'slave' product and switch to the 'Components' tab. Set the pricing model to 'Sum of Components Prices' and select 'No Order Line for Main Product'.

Now, whenever one of your customers orders this 'slave' product it will appear within the shopping cart with the same details as the original 'master' product. When you download an order for this item and transfer it to Sage Line 50, the stock levels of the 'master' product will be decreased.

[Charlesn]

I decided it would be easier to just upgrade to V7 of Developer (as I have been meaning to do for some time now).

If 7 has a built in capabilty for this, how do I go about it, and what do I need to do to my database?

[garyhay]

In v7 you create a product (a a bunch of products) and copy paste them. It's a godsend and worth the upgrade cost on its own.

[Charlesn]

Its more simple than I could ever have hoped in all my wildest dreams!

Result!