[MOD] Default Specials

I can remember responding to a support for this at least once, which was seen as a bug; my clients have just pointed out that "Specials don't work properly" so I have added it as a Free Extension.

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Specials are set for a Customer Group. If a Special is set for the default group, this disappears when a customer logs in if they belong to another group. For the majority of store owners, this will be wrong behaviour.

With this modification, if a Special is set for the default customer group (please note, any group can be set to be the default in Admin - this mod uses whichever is set to the current default), it will show for ALL groups, and not suddenly disappear after log-on to purchase!

If a different Special is to be offered to other customer groups, the one with the HIGHEST priority will be used, so you could have for example:
Default $20 Priority 1
Friends $15 Priority 2

The $20 Special would be available to all customer groups but if someone in 'Friends' logged on, it would be replaced by the $15 offer.

PLEASE NOTE
Another slight bug is that if there are no specials for the current group but the specials module is enabled, it shows blank rather than some courtesy text. You might want to add a 'No Products' courtesy message to the special module TPL

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There are a couple of other modifications to the file which I didn't remove because I couldn't imagine anyone preferring to revert to standard behaviour.

a) Search
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Includes my modification for making the search (and advanced search) multi-keyword. The standard search looks for a single extract, such as "red jumper" but returns nothing if these do not appear consecutively. The revised search will find any number of keywords in any order in any selected scope.

b) Latest Products
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The latest products module by default shows products that have been added but not yet available. This file contains a modification so that latest products will only show once they have been set as available to purchase.

Hi,
I cannot find the extension, can you provide a copy?

Thanks