Delisted product listings ---> possible error

[gcr]

http://demo.ilance.com/selling.php?cmd=management&sub=delisted

If ADMIN has delisted a product listing, it is removed from the live bidding/buying process and placed under your "Delisted" tab.

It still shows that there is time left on the listing? Is this required?

What actions can the member perform with delisted listings? It would appear nothing, which of course is a good thing as it was probably removed for violation of policy/s.

How long will it be displayed under the "Delisted" tab?

[Peter]

It still shows that there is time left on the listing? Is this required?


I guess it's not "required" but it does denote that there was / is still time left on that listing. Perhaps the user wants to dispute this listing with the admin, which in this case it would be a matter of the admin re-opening that auction which would result in the same time left for that event. There is no point to remove it because this situation can arise. When there is no time left, it will state this... so it's more of a "preference" which you can address once you become licensed by adding " -- " string for the "timeleft" column from the cmd=delisted tab from your buying or selling activity. Heck, I'll even show you how to do this because it wouldn't take anymore than 60 seconds to change ;)


What actions can the member perform with delisted listings? It would appear nothing, which of course is a good thing as it was probably removed for violation of policy/s.


There is no "actions". It's for viewing purposes only when a listing becomes "delisted". It serves a number of things and one that comes to mind is to have the original listing at least visible so the admin can perhaps re-review it and make a better informed decision as to what can be done. Re-open it for that user or physically delete it from the database. What you'll notice in ILance is we take great care in terms of the code we write to "remove" datas from your database. What you'll notice is we use a `visible` column in many of the tables which has only 1 value, "0" or "1" where 1 is visible, 0 is non-visible. When we set visible = 0 then it's like the listing was physcially removed, but the admin can still see these at his own will; users cannot.


How long will it be displayed under the "Delisted" tab?

Forever. I mean a user posts an item, it becomes delisted, it's his. But with your input and others we can decide as a community if "delisted" listings become physically removed after so much time has passed etc. But the key to our development is not to remove data from your db, it's to make it grow.

Regards,
Peter