"Only discounted products" Virtual category rule is not reading "special from and to dates" in discounted products to load products

[indunie]

Preconditions

Magento ver. 2.4.6-p7 and ElasticSuite Open Source ver. 2.11.9 (on elasticsearch ver. 8.15.1).
in both production and developer modes

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up a discount for a product with a future date in the Special Price From and To fields.
2. Create a virtual category with the virtual rule "Only discounted products".
3. Verify if the product remains in your virtual category after the date in Special Price From has passed.
4. Wait until the end of the sale period (as defined in the To field), and confirm that the product is no longer in your virtual category.

Expected result

1. The product should appear in the category after the Special Price From date and disappear from the category after the To date

Actual result

1. Discounted product is not disappear after the "special to date" passed.
   
   It seems like Special Price From and To are not being used to verify if a discount is active.
   
   

The below issue is related to this but I couldn't find it as resolved.
#2928

[vahonc]

Hello @indunie,

I tried to reproduce your issue according to your steps. So, I create a virtual category with the virtual rule Only discounted products and set up a discount for some products (in my case three first) with a future date in the Special Price From and To fields, as from 8 to 11 November.

Indeed, when the "special to date" passed the discounted products did not disappear from the virtual category and the prices didn't change in the database. But after running reindex this issue was fixed, the products disappeared from the category, and catalog_product_index_price table was updated.

So you may need to check the Magento cron job to make sure that the price index updating is configured correctly.

Also, clarify what exactly version of Magento you are using, I mean OS, CE or EE.

BR,
Vadym