Re: MiniVend 3.12 close to release

[cfm@maine.com]

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We provide this interface but use an sql back end.  Issues are
the same though.  All you need to do is get a unique key at one
defined point.  You may need to lock the file if that is a concern.

Realistically, the web interface is inadequate for anyone with more than
a handful of products.  Yes you might use it to touch up here and
there but if you have thousands of products you need a better process.
If you have only a handful of products the chances of someone 
stepping on someone else are remote, eg small store, probably
only one storekeeper.

cfm

> Would it be possible to let web-users exclusively populate a product.asc
> file via the form upload feature ? Is there a problem if two web-users are
> writing to the product.asc file at the same time ? If the item number of
> the products the web-users enters, is verifyable for its correctness
> before it is written to the product.asc file and several web-users are
> entering the same item number, could one combine the input with generating
> a new item number to become the main key and the original item number as
> subclass key. For example:
>   
>   web user a enters item number 45 --> generates item code 45-1 
>   web user b enters item number 45 --> generates item code 45-2
> 
> Others would search for item number 45, but the search result will display
> the whole list of 45-1, 45-2, ... etc.
> 
> Does anyone can see a big boubou or security issue a non programmer
> like me doesn't think about ? Any comments ?
> 
> Birgitt Funk
> 
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