RE: New User Comments

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Ross Olson
>
> I'm a new user of the MiniVend System, and I just wanted to make a few
> comments about the product and the documentation:
>
> 1) The "Simple Template" is Not simple for new users. I'd call it the
> "Intermediate" template and create an actual simple template that: has
> fields for SKU, Product Name, Description and Price; would have far
> fewer pages to reconfigure and a step-by-step in the documentation for
> customizing the simple sample.

There is a volunteer Minivend Documentation project just starting. You
help would be useful. If you could describe in more detail what you would
remove from the simple template to make it a beginner template (i.e. page
or feature) and email it to minivend-docs@minivend.com it would be very
helpful. Or, if you have stripped down the simple template to a beginner
version, zip it up and donate it.

> 2) The Documentation could desperately use a 1 to 10 step-by-step
> instructions of getting the first sample installed. There's the start of
> such a section in the QuickStart, but it quickly degrades into a
> discussion of diff and such, but never clearly states:
>
> 	Step 1) Run makecat
> 	Step 2) Modify the files in (location 1) (location 2)
> (Locations 3)
> 	Step 3) View the URL (address) in your browser

Again, if you could outline all the steps you can think of that you went
through it would be helpful. This can be as detailed or general as you
have time.

>
> 3) The restart program doesn't run well on my Solaris box, but I'm not
> sure why. For some reason I need to copy and paste the SU command
> directly into the command line. The restart's program version doesn't
> run right.

There are platform specific notes in the README.OS file. Also, if post the
exact error messages that restart gives you (check the log file in your
minivend directory as well) people might be able to point you in the right
direction.

> I don't have much experience with Solaris, so I'm sure I'm stumbling
> over some newbie problems right there, but please don't discount my
> suggestions off-hand because of that.
>
> I'm glad to see that the mailing list discusses some reasonably advanced
> topics, but as a new user, I'm a bit intimidated. :P Hopefully the
> learning curve is starting to flatten out a bit for me.
>
>
> ...Ross...
>
>
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