[TYPO3-commerce] Product copy pasting

[Rik Willems]

Hi Toni,

The explanation seems clear. But I think this can succesfully be 
overcome. When you copy a page in TYPO3 you get 'copy - 1' or something 
similar inserted behind the page name. When you do this too for the 
article number you won't get any errors in case commerce is connected to 
an ERP system. Enabling copy-paste through extension config with a clear 
warning about the implications should do.

By the explanation I'd say that it is an easy setting somewhere in 
ext_localconf.php or so. But to be honest I'm not sure of this. You can 
look this up in other extensions.

Hope that helps!

Greets, Rik

toni milovan schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a shop with many similar products that all have the same number 
> ff almost the same atricles. So, it would be easyest to just create one 
> template products, and then copy/paste it and only manually change the 
> article number and differing values.
> 
> However, while browsing the forge I have found this:
> 
> "Currently copying of prodcts is realy prohibited. The reason for 
> this:
If a product is copied the articles with their article-numbers and 
> so on are after the copy duplicated in the system. At this stage we 
> would have two articles with the same article number and this would 
> cause may systems to break. ERp Systems only allow to have one article 
> one article number.
> TYPO3 itself handles own IDS for articles, which are unique in the 
> system and automatically generated, but to have the ability to connect 
> to ERP systems we decided to disallow the copy."
> I can understand the rason for it, but find it little draconian because 
> this greatly complicates products creation. It's almost like forbidding 
> the use of hammers because someone can be hurt with it :).
> 
> It seems to me that copying was allowed in the past, so I would like to 
> reenable ti again on my own responsibility. Can someone direct me where 
> to look for that?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Toni
>