Bulk disabling of non-updated / old products.
I have a drupal commerce site built with several thousand products. The products are maintained through Feeds. Unfortunately a new requirement has reared its head that I am trying to work around.
I have the requirement to disable products that are not included in an import. That is, I cannot rely on an import to contain an outdated product, rather I need use the absence of an item to determine that it is no longer available.
I'm a little at a loss if I should be handling this from the feeds side - Having some sort of callback to check date of last change then do a database operation based upon that - or from some sort of custom report/maintenance script.
The feeds update are manual uploads, so if need be I can require the uploader to do some other action, this won't be a cron type thing.
Any ideas?
Comments
Views Bulk Operation
Any time you say "bulk" I think [VBO](http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations). Although I don't understand exactly what you're up to, I suspect it could be part of the answer. BTW, [Commerce VBO Views](http://drupal.org/project/commerce_vbo_views) has some standards views which include the ability to disable products.
VBO
That will likely work perfectly, thanks for the heads up. Had no idea VBO existed.