Upgrade to Product Selling Period Dates

If your deployment is on an earlier release of ​Salesforce Industries Communications, Media, and Energy, you must upgrade to Fall '18 before you can set up your shared catalog to use product selling period dates.

1. Update existing products in your catalog to use the new fields.

   The previous effectivity dates will not be deleted. Use the batch job to copy the values from the existing Effective Date field to the new Selling Start Date(time) and the existing End Date field into the Selling End Date(time).

   For example, a product could have an Effective Start Date of 7/7/2018. After running the batch job, this date is converted to the Selling Start Date, and it is a DateTime of 7/7/2018 00:00:00.

   

   Note

   The Populate Product Selling Period batch job processes all products, both commercial and technical, in your shared catalog.

2. Add the new fields to your existing commercial product object type layouts. See Upgrade EPC Schema.
3. Update existing customizations or integrations.

   Ensure that any customizations that evaluate the legacy effectivity date fields are updated to use both the new product selling period fields and the DateTime data type. The legacy effectivity dates continue to be supported and will automatically be kept in sync with the new product selling period dates for backward compatibility. New installations will receive the new product selling period dates automatically and no conversion is necessary.