I have a number of sites ( all in Business Multi-user 8.5.1.0.0.0.HFUA ) which all contain the same products at the same base prices. The sites use different colour schemes and graphics / some need logins / some have different discount structures, all set up for our large corporate customers who wanted their version of our shop to fit with their corporate image.
I designed two new CUSTOM layouts for a particular section and subsections in "site 1" which I'd like to apply to the same section and subsections in "site 2".
So I used "Design / Deploy Partial Site Design" to export just the two custom layouts in the "Product" section from "site 1", and import these into "site 2". Then I discovered you also need to make sure they're available in the product layout tab by going to "Design / Design Library / Products / ProductLayout / Values" and moving the new layouts across to the right hand box.
The layouts are now installed fine, and I can MANUALLY change the product layouts in "site 2" ... but that's time consuming, so I then CUT the old-style section from "site 2" and tried copying and pasting the new-style section from "site1" into "site 2". As soon as I look at a product in the newly pasted section in "site 2", Actinic crashes.
I tried all this in v9 as well, and whilst Actinic doesn't crash, all the subsections and products in the newly pasted section revert to "Use parent" and again I have to manually amend the layout of every single subsection and product.
Surely if I copy a subsection from one site into another site, and both sites have exactly the same layout available, the second site should just work ?
Any ideas gratefully received !
I designed two new CUSTOM layouts for a particular section and subsections in "site 1" which I'd like to apply to the same section and subsections in "site 2".
So I used "Design / Deploy Partial Site Design" to export just the two custom layouts in the "Product" section from "site 1", and import these into "site 2". Then I discovered you also need to make sure they're available in the product layout tab by going to "Design / Design Library / Products / ProductLayout / Values" and moving the new layouts across to the right hand box.
The layouts are now installed fine, and I can MANUALLY change the product layouts in "site 2" ... but that's time consuming, so I then CUT the old-style section from "site 2" and tried copying and pasting the new-style section from "site1" into "site 2". As soon as I look at a product in the newly pasted section in "site 2", Actinic crashes.
I tried all this in v9 as well, and whilst Actinic doesn't crash, all the subsections and products in the newly pasted section revert to "Use parent" and again I have to manually amend the layout of every single subsection and product.
Surely if I copy a subsection from one site into another site, and both sites have exactly the same layout available, the second site should just work ?
Any ideas gratefully received !
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