We've been running a 4.0x store for 3 years, and have been using the tags system to curate products for different promotions for our MVE with hundreds of vendors.
An admin examines the newest products in the store and adds appropriate tags in order to make filling landing pages and promotional emails easier throughout the year.
We're currently in the process of revamping the store to the latest and greatest version, only to discover that CS-Cart has discontinued this extension.
Our tag data seems to have migrated, but there is no longer any interface to add tags to the product details page.
Anyone interested in getting this functionality back for us, possible with a few new tweaks?
cheers
Looks like something wrong with the upgraded store. The Tags module was not removed in latest versions.
http://prntscr.com/fj4mj4
http://forum.cs-cart.com/tracker/issue-6795-tags-behaviour-change/
User tags were removed in 4.3.1. (This made it easy to tag products from the storefront for our admins)
I guess we'll have to use the tagging in the backend…
The real problem with the remaining admin tagging, is that there's no way (that I can see) to sort by, or display, the most recently added products.
This was easy from the storefront.
The real problem with the remaining admin tagging, is that there's no way (that I can see) to sort by, or display, the most recently added products.
To see recently added products, just install the Bestsellers module and use the following url
http://domain.com/index.php?dispatch=products.newest
To see recently added products, just install the Bestsellers module and use the following url
http://domain.com/index.php?dispatch=products.newest
That works for the storefront, but as I said above, we can no longer access the tagging interface from there.
As of 4.3.1, we would need to be able to search for "newest" products from the admin. It's still quite laborious to do the tagging from there, but we don't have any other options…
Edit: I see that I can add "sort_by=newest" to the path - but it's odd that this isn't presented as an option in the advanced search box, or that there aren't sorting options on the dashboard > Products.
Edit: I see that I can add "sort_by=newest" to the path - but it's odd that this isn't presented as an option in the advanced search box, or that there aren't sorting options on the dashboard > Products.
Unfortunately, it is not possible. As alternative, you can use the following URL in the admin panel:
http://domain.com/admin.php?dispatch=products.manage&sort_by=timestamp&sort_order=desc