My site will be filled with information that people will be searching for on the internet. But this information will only be available in product pages. So I want to set my set default to show “out of stock” items.
Problem is if I do this the site will be much bigger, products list will go from about 3,000 to 10,000 making it harder for people who want to buy.
The answer is to give the registered member the option to have “show in stock only” on or off.
Ideally I would like two options for this, one being the members default when they enter the site so enabled in the member profile setting. The other a simple button shown only to members.
My question is how hard would this be to impliment concidering I no nothing about cs-cart or code 
You’ll have an extended learning experience… You can add the field to the profile fields, but you will have to modify templates to look for the value of that field and to act on it appropriately. You will also have to modify the search mechanisms to exclude items that are not in stock if the value of your field is set to exclude…
You would be better served to have someone do this for you. Then look at what they did to learn from it. What an experienced person can do in 2 hours will take you days to figure out. But then it all depends on how you value your time.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]You’ll have an extended learning experience… You can add the field to the profile fields, but you will have to modify templates to look for the value of that field and to act on it appropriately. You will also have to modify the search mechanisms to exclude items that are not in stock if the value of your field is set to exclude…
You would be better served to have someone do this for you. Then look at what they did to learn from it. What an experienced person can do in 2 hours will take you days to figure out. But then it all depends on how you value your time.[/QUOTE]
If I was going to pay for it i would want some other featues added but if it was a case of a few hours I would be prepared to pay that at reasonable rates.
[quote name=‘kickoff3pm’]If I was going to pay for it i would want some other featues added but if it was a case of a few hours I would be prepared to pay that at reasonable rates.[/QUOTE]
Anyone want to quote for this, I can give more details via email but I am also concerned about future updates so would want ideas on how to keep these changes after an update.
Whomever you have do it, make sure they do it in as upgrade independent manner as possible.
The problem is that a change of this nature might look straight forward from the start, but may have tenticales that stretch into many templates and blocks. So one has to invest quite a bit of research just to give you a quote and I know from my standpoint, I’ve gotten kind of tired of doing research to quote people and then having that never turn into revenue. So I (and I assume others too) are more reluctant to take on new projects that can spread out too much.
The issue is that the configuration for whether to show out of stock items is part of the registry. Hence it’s difficult to flip it back and forth without actually changing the underlying config info.
But if you want to send me a list of functional requirements to tonybXX@ez-msXX.com, I’ll take a look and we can discuss.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]Whomever you have do it, make sure they do it in as upgrade independent manner as possible.
The problem is that a change of this nature might look straight forward from the start, but may have tenticales that stretch into many templates and blocks. So one has to invest quite a bit of research just to give you a quote and I know from my standpoint, I’ve gotten kind of tired of doing research to quote people and then having that never turn into revenue. So I (and I assume others too) are more reluctant to take on new projects that can spread out too much.
The issue is that the configuration for whether to show out of stock items is part of the registry. Hence it’s difficult to flip it back and forth without actually changing the underlying config info.
But if you want to send me a list of functional requirements to tonybXX@ez-msXX.com, I’ll take a look and we can discuss.[/QUOTE]
Well to be honest I left my last software intending NOT to put me in the same position of updating more then banking 
So perhaps I’ll have to go as is and make do.