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[RMD27]

14steve14, on 02 February 2011, 12:28, said:

After all thesee posts i have to say this is a step back for oscommerce. What a lot of trouble to go through to get a short description. There is a contribution, that works with 2.3.1 which automatically uses the first 80 characters fron the product descriptions and add that as a short description. No messing with the databse at all, and you only need to add the information once. Simple to use and install. The contribution can be found HERE

And if you want to add a short description that is different from the long description? This method on this thread is the way to go?

[14steve14]

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And if you want to add a short description that is different from the long description? This method on this thread is the way to go?

So you would sooner have to edit your database for every product description, even those products that you already have in your store, rather than use the first part of your product description that is already in your database.

If you think that is the way to go, you go for it. I suppose its down to what you prefer, and i prefer not to have to do things twice for every product in my store.

if you add the contribution that was mentioned, oscommerce automatically uses the first 80 characters (this can be altered) of your normal product description and adds a read more link that goes to the main product description. One description two jobs.

[RMD27]

14steve14, on 19 February 2011, 14:41, said:

So you would sooner have to edit your database for every product description, even those products that you already have in your store, rather than use the first part of your product description that is already in your database.

If you think that is the way to go, you go for it. I suppose its down to what you prefer, and i prefer not to have to do things twice for every product in my store.

if you add the contribution that was mentioned, oscommerce automatically uses the first 80 characters (this can be altered) of your normal product description and adds a read more link that goes to the main product description. One description two jobs.

Hi

I know what you mean, killing two birds with one stone so to speak, I was thinking along the lines of the mini description being incorporated into Easy Populate. That is the only way I would choose to manage the mini description.

The outline given in this thread makes it seem easy to set up an extra field, but I don't know how easy it would be to incorporate it into Easy Populate.

[RMD27]

RMD27, on 21 February 2011, 08:01, said:

Hi

I know what you mean, killing two birds with one stone so to speak, I was thinking along the lines of the mini description being incorporated into Easy Populate. That is the only way I would choose to manage the mini description.

The outline given in this thread makes it seem easy to set up an extra field, but I don't know how easy it would be to incorporate it into Easy Populate.

If anyone is interested I figured out that EP gives you the instructions on how to incorporate a new field like the one detailed in this thread, into its upload download function

http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/371245-this-product-will-be-in-stock-on-format/page__gopid__1567600#entry1567600

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For adding fields: Add More Fields -> http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8073

Then easy edit "minidescription" in Administration->Catalog->Categories/Products ....

Works with Easy Populate.