Saving product on storeview scope overwrites storeview attribute values with global values about product-import

[patrick-bigbridge]

Is your store by chance still set to 'Enable Single-Store Mode'?

[IvoJongmans]

'Enable Single-Store Mode' is set to 'No'

[patrick-bigbridge]

This is quite a strange case, Ivo. But I think I found it.

I was able to reproduce your findings with your xml on a local 2.3.1 implementation. But when I checked it with my default xml import, a-basic-product.xml, I had no such problem.

So bit by bit I started to change your file into my file and see what happened. After a few tries I located the major difference: your xml file does not contain the website of the product.

What happens when you forget the website of a product is quite interesting. When you first modify the product via the backend, Magento offers to copy the global values to the store views of all websites:

You are likely to miss this, because this tab is collapsed by default.

But when Magento copies these values, it just overwrites any existing store view values.

I was even able to reproduce this with a product I created in the backend (no import):

• Create a product, with sku, name, description, price
• Uncheck the websites that are checked by default
• Save
• Change to a store view
• Change the store view values of name and description to something else
• Uncheck the websites that are checked by default
• Save
• Change the store view values of name and description to something else
• Leave the websites checked as is
• Save

The store view now shows the global values again.

This may be considered a bug in Magento, but it is one does not normally occur. As long as you specify a website. :)

[IvoJongmans]

Hi,

This solved my issue. Thanks again!