Comments on: Magento Product Audit Extension – Monitor and Record Changes to your Products

By: Hardik Shah

Hardik Shah — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:39:17 +0000

Magento Product Audit
Is this extension is available for Magento 1.7?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:31:55 +0000

Your solution is very intriguing and is partially what we are looking to for. We would like to send product attribute updates (selected ones) to customers who currently have that particular product on order, but not yet shipped (ie backordered status). How can we tie your system into a system that sends emails to customers and logs them in their order comment history? Do you know of such an extension of functionality within Magento? If not, is there code we can add that can do this?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:30:40 +0000

I agree with annoying, here is my small contribution
if($object->dataHasChangedFor(“name”)==1){
$object->getOrigData(“name”);
}
tested and works, just have to type in all the attributes you would like to check. thanks again for the extension. Maybe if I have some free time and feel in an array mood ill revisit this someday

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:07:05 +0000

@Shawn haha – noone is supposed to look at the code! Checkout the $_origData array on the entity – beforeSave it contains the data that the object had when retrieved _I think_.

I started implementing the diff, but it get’s annoying dealing with object comparison.

If you do fancy implementing it, I’d be very grateful to you!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:59:58 +0000

First of all thank you for this extention, going over code i came across // TODO: get the changes
did you get anywhere on this? and/or do you know how to get the old data? if you do i can write this section just don’t know how to get old data to compare the new data to.
Thanks

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:10:31 +0000

@J.T. Good idea, so often we tweak the product description or name, but having a record of those changes over time and the associated conversion rate would be very interesting.

I guess technically we should be A/B testing the changes before we make them!

By: J.T.

J.T. — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:48:59 +0000

Nice, as always. First idea that sprang to mind is probably not the intended direction, but I immediately thought ‘wouldn’t it be nice to log that product page’s performance/conversion up until that change so you can determine whether it has been beneficial’.

Within Magento, a simple product orders per pageview ratio could suffice, or interface it with the Analytics API and get the URL’s dollar value and log it against that time stamp. If there were ever then to come a reporting interface, it could highlight the conversion/revenue impact of such product changes.

But really, for mere auditing as a supervision project, it’s a great tool as it is.