[gfiebich]

I realize this is an older thread, but I thought this post might be worthwhile to someone. I had a similar need as the original poster, but decided that adding the "Availiablity" field to the "Admin / Search Products" page would make disabling products very simple - vs. using the existing "Quantity" levels to disable products as others had suggested. To do this, you need to edit two files: "skin1 / main / products.tpl" and "include / process_product.php". I did this on a 3.3.5 install - so no guarantees on it working with any other version. The following code snippets begin with existing code for placement reference.

Step 1: edit "skin1 / main / products.tpl" - add the new column header

{section name=cat_num loop=$products}
{ if %cat_num.first% }
<table border=0>
<tr class=TableHead>

<td>SKU</td>
<td>Product</td>
{if $usertype eq "A" or $active_modules.Simple_Mode ne ""}
<TD>Pos.</TD>
{/if}
<TD>Quantity</TD>
<td colspan=2>Shop price</td>
<td nowrap>Your price</td>
<td>Live?</td>

Step 2: edit "skin1 / main / products.tpl" - add the new "Availablity" field

<td nowrap align=right>
<input type="text" size="7" value="{$products[cat_num].price}" name="product_price[{$products[cat_num].productid}]">
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" size="3" value="{$products[cat_num].forsale}" name="product_forsale[{$products[cat_num].productid}]">
</td>

Step 3: edit "include / process_product.php" - add the code that saves changes to "forsale"

	if ($product_orderby) {
		foreach ($product_orderby as $key1 => $value)
			db_query ("UPDATE $sql_tbl[products] SET orderby='$value' WHERE productid='$key1'");
	}
	
	if ($product_forsale) {
		foreach ($product_forsale as $key1 => $value)
			db_query ("UPDATE $sql_tbl[products] SET forsale='$value' WHERE productid='$key1'");
	}

That's it! Now you can do a product search in Admin and update the availability of a batch of products in one pass - vs. opening each product detail, changing the availability, saving, etc.

-Glen