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Hi Stephen

The Index contains a field with the replacement product id - but that sits on the product being faced out.

To configure the index to return the new product when searching the old SKU, I would recommend creating a custom product field, e.g. "Replaces SKU" and then on the new product have the SKU of the products it replaces and then include that field in searches so that it shows up.

The 'default' behavior of replacement products is that you leave the old product in so it can be searched, and then if it has a replacement product, show a message on the product detail page that the product has been replaced and link to that instead.

BR Nicolai

Ahhh thanks Nicolai.

We have also had a question if it is possible to configure the solution such that if you click order on the old one, that the one replacing it is automatically put into the basket. I assume this is possible by altering the template so that if a replacement is present, then you add that instead, but I think that it is possibly misleading? Would certainly have to have some very prominent notices about it on both the product list and the product detail page, and that would maybe start to get messy. I like the disable old, and linking to new approach best

I also think that would be misleading to just add the new product.

In my view it is better to disable the add to cart button and provide a clear message with a link to the new product.

Thanks Nicolai.

I have one more question.

In EcomOrderLines... I see that the ProductNumber, ProductID and ProductVariantID are all listed. If I need to change the ProductVariantID, will this mess up the relationship between order and orderlines, or does the relationship go via the ProductNumber? ( i assume the productnumber is the key attribute here)

Cheers

//Steve

Hi Stephen

The relationship on orders and orderlines is the order.id. So on orderline you have orderline.orderid that is the key.

So you can change the productvariantid - it is informational only, so you can do it if you like. It might change prices for the line if the different variants have different prices

Hi Nicolai. I phrased the question incorrectly there. I meant the relationship between product and orderline... sorry

Yes, if you change the variant id on the orderline, that is the variant used to re-calculate when needed.