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    Default Salemaker does not understand linked products

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    Hi all,
    I noticed that Salemaker, which is so convenient to handle categories, does not work for me when a category consists of products copied (as linked products) from other categories.
    Case in point: I have 5 wineries, each with red, white, and rose wines. Each winery is a category.
    I have made separate categories for red, white, and rose wines, copying as links the relevant products from the winery categories.
    Now, if I want to have a sale on rose wines, I set Salemaker with just the rose category checked, with no result at all. There is no error log to be found.
    If however I check also one of the winery categories for the sale, then the corresponding product(s) in the rose category show a discount.

    I assume this is a known issue, with linked products, and wonder if this is fixed in 1.5.7, or whether I need to change the procedure for creating new categories from existing ones. I want to avoid duplicating products if possible though.
    Zen Cart 1.5.6c modified to support Japanese language (postage module support work in progress). Upgraded incrementally each version from initial 1.5.5d.

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    Default Re: Salemaker does not understand linked products

    This is not a bug. It is by design.

    Salemaker works on the *master* categories-id of a product, not on its links.

    If you want to reset the master-category of ALL products in a Category (linked or not) to use *that* category, then find a Product in that Category and hit the C for Copy ... then Click the Multiple Categories Links Manager button ...
    At the bottom of the page is:
    Reset ALL Products in the selected Category to use the selected Category as the new Master Categories ID ...
    Example: Resetting Category 22 would set ALL Products in Category 22 to use Category 22 as the Master Category ID
    You could change the master after the sale is done.
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    Default Re: Salemaker does not understand linked products

    Got it, makes sense. Noted. We will work with that in future on our shop.

 

 

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