Q: what happens with sold items?

dontom · July 28th, 2005, 11:38 AM

do they get deleted after some time?

Chuck S · July 28th, 2005, 11:41 AM

Yes if you use the cron task sendnotice.php it will clear out expired ads etc

dontom · July 28th, 2005, 11:43 AM

just asking because some of my ads are already sold and I ran sendnotice manually and the ads are still there

Chuck S · July 28th, 2005, 11:54 AM

They are marked as expired and should not show on screen. You can then view and delete expired ads in the approval admin side

dontom · August 26th, 2005, 02:50 AM

how can i mass delete expired / sold items? I have 560 of them expired and do not want to click them manually... I would like to delete them automatically every night
Thomas

Chuck S · August 26th, 2005, 08:47 AM

They are marked expired and do not show.

The admin still has to go into admin and delete the expired ads in ad approval

dontom · August 26th, 2005, 09:05 AM

then this is my feature request to automize this task

(delete expired tasks)

Sold items do not disappear on my site even after days - do i also have to do something here to make them invisible? sendnotice is running every night...
thanks
thomas

dontom · August 26th, 2005, 03:06 PM

perhaps it is still a bug: sold items are still visible

installed here: http://www.mtb-news.de/bikemarkt/

example: sold item: http://www.mtb-news.de/bikemarkt/sho...cat=500&page=1

any idea or starting point?
thanks
thomas

dontom · August 29th, 2005, 08:25 AM

Hello? am I doing something wrong or might this be a bug?

What is the easiest way to get rid of all expired/ sold items? do they have a specila status so I can delete using sql? can I update counters later to ensure a consisten database?
Thomas

Chuck S · August 29th, 2005, 08:35 AM

well you could do that but that is not good as you would leave the images

In admin delete the ads under the expired queue in approve ads

dontom · August 29th, 2005, 08:39 AM

Hi Chuck,
I am not going to delete several hundrerd ads manually by clicking each of them...

Any other idea?
why not also let sendnotice let delete items from expired queue when expired or sold date is e.g > 2 weeks ago?

dontom · September 12th, 2005, 03:35 PM

Bugs:
1) no matter to which page ( I get displayed 31 pages in the pagination) i click i will always see the first page

2) Date expired in expired queue is today for all items

3) after having deleted items pp-c jumps back to the wrong category, this makes it even more difficult to get rid of expired ads

4) when deleting expired ads users will get emails:
"test,

I'm sorry, but the ad you submitted to MTB-News.de, titled
"test", has been deleted. Some reasons for ad deletions include:

- Ads that were partially uploaded/incomplete
- Extremely poor quality/images (impossible to make out the image itself)
- Ads that did not conform to our published site contribution and usage guidelines such as offensive
- Ads which were not paid for after submission......"
This should not happen... will comment it out... (Line 430, admin-misc)

Thomas

Chuck S · September 12th, 2005, 07:28 PM

You are the only one who gets an email

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

There is no bug that I see. A user runs sendnotice or set's up the cron task which sets approved to 2 so they dont show.

You as admin would periodlically view the expired que and delete the ads.

dontom · September 12th, 2005, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by omegatron

You are the only one who gets an email
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There is no bug that I see. A user runs sendnotice or set's up the cron task which sets approved to 2 so they dont show.

Hi chuck,
My users complained about getting strange emails:
http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showthr...58#post2147758

I was also getting these emails with a test account (=! admin)

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

This sends out emails to $uid, which is the user, whos expired items get deleted.

What about my other points?

Thomas

RCHobbies · April 16th, 2006, 08:42 PM

So how do you set it up to automatically delete these.

And is this email thing a bug or what? I'm ready to go live with my site and just found that the expired ads do not automatically delete. I don't want my people getting notices every time we delete an expired ad.

Future feature requested.

Chuck S · April 16th, 2006, 09:09 PM

I beleive I responded to the software feature in the other thread you posted but we can consider an auto delete cron in the future yes

benFF · April 23rd, 2006, 02:23 AM

If you do, make it optional though.

I keep ALL my old expired ads so my trader rating system stays valid.

SHalliday · May 8th, 2006, 11:53 AM

an optional cron delete job would be wonderful. Got my vote!

diretur · May 11th, 2006, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHalliday

an optional cron delete job would be wonderful. Got my vote!

I would need it too