How It Works

When you work with the catalog and modify product or category pages, you are asked to confirm if you want to update catalog immediately and see the following message:

Click 'No' if you want to postpone the update and perform it later.

Click 'Yes' to continue the update. You can watch the update in progress on the screen. After it is finished you are redirected to admin zone automatically or have to do it manually if your browser does not support redirection.

By default the confirmation request functionality is turned on. If you are in the process of modifying your catalog and actively changing your products and categories, you might want to turn AutoUpdateCatalog functionality off to avoid spending time on frequent updates. For details on how to do that, read the section 'Configuring the Module'.

AutoUpdateCatalog module updates only HTML catalog pages of the products which have been modified, leaving all the other pages untouched. If  the 'Drop old catalog' option is disabled in the HTMLCatalog module settings, the new pages are added to the existing catalog.

Note: If you disable a category or a product in your store and update the HTML catalog, the page(s) of the disabled products will remain in the catalog unless the 'Drop old catalog' option is enabled in the HTMLCatalog module settings. So even when a product is disabled and the HTML Catalog is updated, a user can visit the disabled product page (for example, if it has been bookmarked).