How To Hide In Stock/Out Of Stock System Wide?

Question

Hi,
We are selling items that are setup as Bills of Material. The problem is that they always show as Not In Stock on the website. This is because the stock levels come from OITM (Items in B1) and for BoMs the matching item in B1 does not get a stock level.  Since the item stock level is the one used in Web Tools, I would simply like to hide any warnings about items being 'Not In Stock' because it's not an accurate statement.  I know the customer can still place an order but it might make someone change their mind about ordering an item if they 'think' it's not in stock.
Is there any system wide setting to hide all stock level indications and warnings about out of stock items?
Thanks,
David Wall

Answer 1

Hello David,
This is possible, but it is a couple of steps:
1) In windows explorer navigate to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\b1webtools\catalog\controls\ and open up partpriceblock.ascx with a text editor such as note pad. You want to modify the following lines by putting comment marks around them like this (HTML comment marks are <!---  code you want to hide --->)
     <!---    <asp:Label id="ltlInStock" CssClass="npbody" Runat="server" Visible="False" text="In Stock"></asp:Label>
     <asp:Label id="ltlNotInStock" CssClass="npbody" Runat="server" Visible="False" text="Not in Stock"></asp:Label>   --->
For the instock/out of stock and
<!---   <asp:Label id="sysInventoryCount" CssClass="npbody" Visible="False" runat="server"></asp:Label>   --->
To hide the inventory count.
2) You will also need to modify the cart.aspx page which can be found in c:\intepub\wwwroot\b1webtools\commerce\ like this:
                <!---   <asp:imagebutton runat="server" id="imgOutOfStock" imageurl="~/assets/common/icons/warning.gif"
                    visible="False" />
                <asp:label id="lblOutOfStock" runat="server" text="Some items in your order are on back order"
                    visible="False" cssclass="npwarning"></asp:label>   --->
3) And lastly the cartdetaillistblock.ascx control which can be found in the controls folder of the above stated directory. Modifying as shown below:
<!---   <asp:ImageButton Runat="server" ID="imgOutOfStock" ImageUrl="~/assets/common/icons/warning.gif" Visible="False" />
                    <asp:Image Runat="server" ID="imgUnavailable" ImageUrl="~/assets/common/icons/availableno.gif"
                         Visible="False"></asp:Image>  --->
It should also be noted than an upgrade will overwrite these changes, but in the majority of situations you can reuse the modified ASPX/ASCX pages by overwriting the newer pages with the older modified pages.
Hope this makes sense.
Kind Regards,
James