[TYPO3-commerce] Product copy pasting

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi All,

with the new Version of Commerce (at least 0.11.x) it should be possible 
  to copy produtcs or complete trees. Just use the copy function in the 
category tree.

Regards

ingo
> 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
>>



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