News From Date and Design Active From is set when setting Special Price for product.

[thomasnordkvist]

Steps to reproduce

In backend, set a special price for a product.

Expected result

1. That only the Special Price is set.

Actual result

1. The Special Price is set for the product
2. If you leave the field Special Price From Date blank it is default set to todays date.(This i could consider ok)
3. The field for News From Date in Autosettings is set to todays date. It's possible to change but it's not possoble to clear it.
4. The filed Active From in Design is also set and can't be cleared.

Workaround for now is to set the News From Date and News To Date to passed dates if you are using for example a widget showing new products.

[pboisvert]

@antboiko can you check if this is working as intended/documented or a bug?

[antboiko]

@thomasnordkvist
Hi Thomas, could you please tell me what Magento version you use?

Thanks,
Anton.

[thomasnordkvist]

I have this issue in version 2.0.4 whish is the only version I have access to at the moment

[antboiko]

@thomasnordkvist thanks for reporting this issue. Internal ticket MAGETWO-52577 was created.

Hi,
Has this issue been addressed at all? I am using Magento 2.1.2 and still the same issue is happening.
Is there a release planned that fixes this?

[olysenko]

Hi @Joe980 , I increased priority for the fix. It won't be delivered in the next release 2.1.3, so it scheduled for 2.1.4. If any changes happened I inform you