Want the Product More Information Page to Display Inventory

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Want the Product More Information Page to Display Inventory

Postby Rod » Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:02 am

Want the "Product More Information Page" to display inventory status...either the "Quantity on Hand" or "In Stock".

Ideally would like an "In Stock" image on the "Product More Information Page".

I can't get any inventory information to display on the "Product More Information Page".

I've turned PREFERENCES>INVENTORY TRACKING>Store-wide inventory tracking: ON

I've set the EDIT PRODUCT INFO>Quantity on Hand:5 / Low Stock threshold:0 / Out of Stock limit:0

Saved the product pages and republished....still nothing displays on the "Product More Information Page".

Am I missing something here?

Thank You,

Rod
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Postby loren_d_c » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:16 pm

None of these settings are intended to automatically display the quantity on hand on the store pages. There are no ShopSite default product templates that will include the quantity on hand numbers on the page or More Info Page.

You can do it via a custom product template, if you want, because there is a product template tag to retrieve it, [-- PRODUCT.QuantityOnHand --], however because ShopSite is generating static pages, this value will only be the Quantity on Hand at the time the page is Published, i.e. it will not automatically update the next time someone purchases the product. Depending on your version of ShopSite and the capabilities of your server, there are a couple of other tags that you can use in a custom product template to get the dynamic (real-time) quantity on hand value from an otherwise static page. These are the ProductInventoryPopUp and ProductInventoryActual tags described in the custom product template documentation at:
http://shopsite.com/help/9.0/en-US/sc/p ... oduct.html
The first one will create a link that if clicked on will pop up a little window with the current quantity on hand value listed, the second will create a server side include tag (AKA SSI, and your server has to be configured to allow SSI and you have to have the page named with a file extension that your server will parse for SSI tags) that will generate the number on the page itself.

-Loren
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