Magento – Custom visibility on products

magento-1.9

I'd like to be able to set some custom type of visibility to some products. I'd like these products to be just like 'Not visible individually' but to be able to add their url, in other product's descriptions.
In default magento settings, 'Not visible individually' products return 404 error, when I try to access their details page directly using url.

Is it possible to create a new type of visibility or just remove the 404 error from these kind of products?

Best Answer

Instead of a new type just set them to Visible in catalog and don't add them to a category. This way they can be reached via direct URL but not navigated to via catalog or search

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Magento – Products exist in the database but are not showing in backend or frontend

I managed to reproduce the effect. If the status doesn't have the value "1" (enabled) or "2" (disabled), the product doesn't display at all.

You can fix this as follows. Create a PHP file in the base directory named "update_status.php". Paste the following contents:

<?php
require_once 'app/Mage.php';
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(0);

$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
$collection->addAttributeToFilter('status', array(
    array('nin' => array(1,2)),
    array('null' => true)
), 'left');
foreach ($collection as $product) {
    $product->addAttributeUpdate('status', 1, 0);
}

This will set the status "1" to all products which don't have a correct status. Don't forget to delete the file afterwards.

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