Two Questions.. Reference # and Inventory Control

[Jen C]

I have two questions.. both unrelated to each other.. lol

 

I put in a reference # to the backend of the store, but this number is for my own personal reference only.. I do not want it to show up in the product info.. I can't seem to find any answers here yet on how to fix this.. Is there a modification in the tpl file maybe to do this? Or (hopefully) is there a place that can be changed in the backoffice?

 

 

Also, I know that keeping track of inventory is a very integral part of business, and vital for success.. However, I do not keep my own inventory.. I have suppliers that I order from, and have the items shipped to the customer.. I am not provided with an inventory amount by my suppliers, as I am not the only customer they have.. I do not want to need to keep track of (for me) would be an imaginary number, just for my customers to be able to order my items. At some point in the future, I would like to be able to add in things that I would keep in my own warehouse (when my kids are old enough that I actually have time to make my own things) but for the time being, it is not needed. I have tried turning off inventory control, and enabling orders when there is 0 inventory.. but it doesn't seem to work the way it sounds like it should..

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

Jen

[vekia]

open product.tpl file located in your theme directory (themes/your_theme)

 

you've got there something like:

 

<p id="product_reference" {if isset($groups) OR !$product->reference}style="display: none;"{/if}>
   <label for="product_reference">{l s='Reference:'} </label>
   <span class="editable">{$product->reference|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</span>
  </p>

 

remove it or comment it with {* *} signs, like I show below:

 

{*
<p id="product_reference" {if isset($groups) OR !$product->reference}style="display: none;"{/if}>
   <label for="product_reference">{l s='Reference:'} </label>
   <span class="editable">{$product->reference|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</span>
  </p>
*}

 

 

unfortunately it isn't possible to turn off visibility of reference number, the only way is to edit the tpl file

[Jen C]

I'll try that! thanks!

[vekia]

don't forget to let me know if this works for you :-)

[Jen C]

I'm currently unable to edit those files, server side, or replace them with edited files.. I'm working with my hosting company to have this ability reset again (had her wipe out my site and start from scratch after another shopping cart program gave me too many problems) It will most likely be sometime tomorrow before I can try this..

 

In the mean time, any ideas on my other question, about shipping?

 

 

 

UPDATE::

My hosting company got back to me much sooner than I expected, and your trick worked wonderfully! I just used the {* *} so that if I change my mind at some point, I can just take those back out and won't need to add the code back in.

Edited June 8, 2013 by Jen C (see edit history)