I believe this would be an excellent feature request for the X-Cart developers.
In the meantime, would it be possible to add a couple of extra fields, one to define whether the product is pre-release, and the other to define the date? Or perhaps just the release date would be enough, and if a value is in that field, the product is assumed to be pre-release?
I don't know much about programming, but it seems to me that adding a smarty template that displays all of the products in the current section that also has a value in the pre-release field could possibly work. The new template would have a place to display the release date of the product.
The main problem is that the pre-release product would be displayed with the regular products as well. Or maybe this is a plus?
If anyone figures out how this can work, I'd love to be able to announce coming products on my store as well.
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