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I dont know if anyone has seen this yet but this is a bit wierd.
Create a product type.
Create a type property.
Put in a default value.
Make sure that type property is listed on the product type you created.
Create a product to use the product type above.
Hit save changes.
Now edit the type property's default value.
Notice it didnt make the change on the website?
Apparently, as soon as you save a product, it no longer will take the property type's default value. It stores it in a different table in the database, even though you never touched it on the edit product page (lets say your chaning only a price). So if you have 1000 products saved after putting in the default value for the product type, you CANT edit the default value. You have to edit each product.
I would understand if would resave the type property if you edited it on the product page. Ofcourse it cant pull from the default value because you changed it. But resaving it when you dont edit the type property... it makes the default value useless because everytime once you save, it doesnt pull form it anymore.
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Noted by a few here. You don't need to edit the value in each product, you do need to re-assign the edited product type back to the products, product by product... Make a product 'generic' and then make it 'Pots and Pans' again... PITA. You can't even 'bulk edit' the property type to get the edited type property to change. If this could be made to work properly, it'd be a great tool.
I don't use these anymore except to add a sort capability - I assign products to a type and leave the type empty. So, property types still has a small, limited use. I've dumped any info I used to hold in type properties into the long description where I can bulk edit if I need to.
If I could edit this stuff, I'd go for tabs on the product pages.
Perhaps BVC6 will get this working. |
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Simply put, if you save a product and dont touch the product property, the default value should still be used. The defualt value should only not be used when you change the type property for a product.
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Right. Until you re-tag the product with the type, it won't show the type property edits.
There may be a really good reason you can't edit a type property and get all of the products using it to show the edit right away, but I can't think of one.
This was on the fix-list for SP3 by apparently didn't make it to the SP. |
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i did a SQL Find and Replace and I have some weird results... Basically it was taking and entire type property and duplicating it to another. real weird.
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