How to make old items "New" again?

[JasonTan]

Can anyone advise how can I make my old items appear on the "New products page" again?

Thanks!

[Tobiasz]

Admin -> Preferences -> Products

 

Set up how many days you want your items to be "New".

[vekia]

in this case you have to modify database entries, 

check this: 

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/268157-how-to-set-time-a-product-flag-as-new-in-database/

[JasonTan]

Hi, changing the date in the database works. Thanks!

[NemoPS]

Bear in mind that some statistics might break if you change the creation date of a product, and that one has been purchased....virtually before having been created

[vekia]

Nemo, can you elaborate? im interested in this case but have no idea what can be wrong with stats, i tested it, but in test environment with not a lot data in stats, it's hard to check it :/

[NemoPS]

I didn't test it either, but I noticed several times the date_add of a product was used in a couple of queries for statistics, so I am *guessing* it might be a small issue in terms of statistics, considering a product should not be bought before it has been created....

 

...I think!

[sbt]

There is one way to do that which I found working ok for PS1.6.  check this.

[David Eschmeyer]

in bo - prod information tab

 

works in 1.6.1.x

 

Add it to line 132 (1.6.1.3) (after the hard return <hr />) of: adminfolder\themes\default\template\controllers\products\informations.tlp

 

{if $product->date_add}

<div class="form-group">

<label class="control-label col-lg-3"></td>

<span class="label-tooltip" data-toggle="tooltip"

                title="{l s='Change date for "product new from".'}">

{$bullet_common_field} {l s='New from'}

</span>

</label>

<div class="col-lg-3">

<input type="text" id="date_add" name="date_add" value="{$product->date_add|escape:html:'UTF-8'}" />

</div>

</div>

{/if}

 

 

now you can set the date to any date... this way you can order them as well...