Record updated date/time

Hi guys,

Is the updated datetime recorded for entities such as customers, products, addresses etc..
The reason I'm asking is because I am implementing a 2 way synchronization between nop and my back-end system and I need the updated date to deal with conflicts when the information is updated on one of the two systems.

Thanks in advance

Most entities have a field called UpdatedOnUtc. :)

wooncherk wrote:

True, but not all entites. Customer for example hasn't got the UpdatedOnUtc column.
I think audit fields should be enforced on all the entities (lookup values excluded), I hope it's on the tasks list for the future.

Any suggestion how this could be solved without the UpdatedOnUtc column?

Maybe you can use the ActivityLog ...

SystemKeyword
-------------
AddNewCustomer
AddNewCustomerAttribute
AddNewCustomerAttributeValue
AddNewCustomerRole
DeleteCustomer
DeleteCustomerAttribute
DeleteCustomerAttributeValue
DeleteCustomerRole
EditCustomer
EditCustomerAttribute
EditCustomerAttributeValue
EditCustomerRole

New York wrote:

Good suggestion, unfortunately logs like 'EditCustomerAddress' or 'EditMyAccount' are missing.
Looking at the source code it seems you have to call explicitly _customerActivityService.InsertActivity(..... to record the log, but changing the source code is not an option for me.

Any other idea?

RE: "changing the source code "

You could create a plugin that handles the Entity Updated events

New York wrote:

With a plugin I guess I would need some kind of notification after the core add/edit entity method is executed
so I can record the updated date in my plugin table.

Does Nop framework have something like this?