New Products Block not showing

[Gatto_Rosso]

Hello,
I am posting this here in the hope of getting some help:

after resetting the New Products Block ... it does not show on page! I tried to deactivate and activate it again but nothing changes.
In Design > Positions this block seems to be activated and at the right place.
In database the 'ps_module' table has field 'active' set to 1 for this module. 

PS 1.7.8.6, module version 1.0.1

How can I bring it back on page??

[ComGrafPL]

8 minut temu, Gatto_Rosso napisał:

Hello,
I am posting this here in the hope of getting some help:

after resetting the New Products Block ... it does not show on page! I tried to deactivate and activate it again but nothing changes.
In Design > Positions this block seems to be activated and at the right place.
In database the 'ps_module' table has field 'active' set to 1 for this module. 

PS 1.7.8.6, module version 1.0.1

How can I bring it back on page??

Did you reset the prestashop cache and browser cache as well?

[Gatto_Rosso]

Yes, I did, but it does not show up even after resetting cache

[Ress]

Do you have new products on the site? Try to increase the number of days for which the product is considered new, maybe that's why.

[Gatto_Rosso]

Hello, yes: there are new products, they do not show use event after setting the number of days to 180…

[radonneus]

Initial text:

Hello, I guess you've solved this issue in the meantime, could you pretty please share how ?
I am facing the same problem, have a lot of new products, reseted the New Products module, cleared cache, disabled cache, all those.
Thank you.

 

 

Update, after finding my "problem":
Without going trough all my struggle, "my problem" was that I was using the Duplicate product button because the main difference between the products is the title and picture so I couldn't be bothered to write all and everything again and most of all, the Combinations (as there are a few, same for all).

So, in duplicating one product, Prestashop 8.1.2 also duplicates the product_add column (date) value in product_shop and product MySQL tables thus all duplicated products were the same "age" and this was the reason they would stop showing in New Products module.

I'm not sure about this implementation from Prestashop guys, should a duplicated product be considered same age as the original or a new one ? They decided: same age.

Is there a workaround for this instead of going into the database and updating product_add value ?

Maybe I am doing/thinking it all wrong but I really don't wanna manually enter all product details when, as mentioned, the only difference is picture and name. For me, for future operations, I'll just modify the source code to use current date. Peace.

Edited January 8 by radonneus (see edit history)