How do I control what shows as "new"? All imported items show as new.

[madmartian]

I imported my entire store and everything appears to work ok, but all items have the "new" banner across them. How do I control which items get marked as "new"?

[madmartian]

Just to clarify - I see that I can set the number of days that an item shows as new (beyond the creation date). I need to set this manually, not based on time in the system. I never want no products to show as "new".

[vekia]

if you don't want to show "new" badge just setup time to 0 

under preferences > products tab:

[madmartian]

I DO want to show the "new" badge. However I want to control what products it shows on, not have it based on creation date.

 

Scenarios:

 

1. Importing my entire catalog shows as "new". This is wrong - only a few of the items are new.

2. An old item that was out of stock is back in stock, thus I want to mark it "new" even though the creation date is old.

 

I have created a cetegory called "New Arrivals" and assigned new products to that category. It would be great if the "new" banner showed based on what's in that category rather than creation date.

[vekia]

in this case it will be necessary to modify each template file where the badge is attached, for example: product-list.tpl file.
you can add there simple condition to check product category,

{if $product.category==15} NEW BADGE HERE {/if}

 

15 is only an example, it's a ID of category "New Arrivals"

 

 

you can use this instead of standard "new" badge.

without template modifications it will not be possible.