Hi,


I have disabled Inventory on my website:

Send Low Stock Notice Every 24 Hours
Email Report To: .....
Disable Inventory: [x]
Reserve Inventory on: Order Saved



However I got about 10 low stock reports in the last 4 hours:

Low Stock Report From ...


[3]The following are low in stock or out of stock:[/3]

[3]No out of stock items found.[/3]

[3][/3]

[3]Can I disable this somehow or make sure I actually get it only once a day?[/3]

[3][/3]

[3]Thanks,[/3]

[3]Corneliu.[/3]

I also get a low stock email once per day even though I have disabled the inventory tracking.

You'll probably get an error in the log if there is no email address.

Seems like it needs some work.

But...

I actually like to get an email every X number of hours even when not tracking inventory because it is an extra level of notification to me that the site/server is up and running ok.

I went through the code and it isn't checking for disabled inventory at all, that I could find. Edit line 99 in the global.asax file to the following. The rest of the statement is on line 100 and doesn't change. This probably isn't the final fix, but it should stop the emails and error logging.


Note: A value of zero for the hours will cause the current code to send an email with every session start.

Could someone with the developer pack who is having this problem please go into ProductInventory.vb and on line 218 move the last line in the EmailLowStockReport method to be the first line in the method. I have a feeling that the report is in the middle of running and more reports get run and it just keeps queueing up before the last time run gets set. Please let me know if this fixes your issue.

Well yes, but the other two processes already set their last run time as soon as they start. The difference with the low stock report is that it was waiting until after the report was run before setting the last time run variable. Once this variable is set, it should not allow any other reports to fire off. Now the fact that we are using a thread pool to queue up the report could cause a delay before it is actually run, but I was just trying to find out for now if moving the last time run to before the report runs would fix the problem for people that are having it. If it is merely a timing issue and not something with the date times, then the fix that we actually implement will be more robust.

Can you guys also add some formatting to the email regarding low stock report. This is what I get now:
AH1, RISK: The Lord of the Rings, 0.0000000000 J1302EA, Black Hole Puzzle, 0.0000000000 PLE40300, Kinder Bunnies: Their First Adventure, 0.0000000000 EUR001, Grass Card Game, 0.0000000000 BLU7070, Tip Over Crate Game, 0.0000000000 GWI201, Mummy Rummy Card Game, 0.0000000000 HAS20034, Monopoly Australian Edition, 0.0000000000
Oh yes, one long line of data that I can hardly read.
It would be nice to have the url's and the details about the vendor and manufacturer of each product so I don't have to login, search for each product, and see the manufacturer to be able to order my products.

Thank you,
Corneliu.

Justin,
You are right about the extra line breaks. Thanks.
However a fix for the emails would be nice. I want my inventory to be enabled but receive one email a day only.
Last night I received 28 emails.
Thanks,
Corneliu.

Justin,
If each line of the generated report starts with "- " (dash+space) Outlook will not remov the extra line breaks :)

Can you do that please as part of SP1.



Thank you,

Corneliu.