Re: Possible search bug in 3.12beta13 (and earlier)

[Matthew.Rice@ftlsol.com]

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I should probably mention that I'm doing this site for a client the
needs "OBI" ability to do on-line purchasing.  Basically, webified
EDI and it's been mandated by Ford for all of its suppliers.  I
haven't seen any mention of this on the mailing list.  Is anyone 
else doing this?

The big boys that are doing this are charging insanely large amounts
of money for this capability.


Larry Leszczynski writes:
> It occurred to me Matthew didn't mention in the original post whether the
> "ProductFiles" directive was set in the catalog.cfg file.  MiniVend should
> search for items codes by looking at those files in the order specified,
> so if you specify:
> 
>    Database products products.asc TAB
>    Database partcat  partcat.asc  TAB
>    ProductFiles products,partcat
> 
> then tags like [item-field whatever] should look first at products, then
> if the item code is not found look at partcat. 

Actually, the partcat.asc file is a database of categories for the
products.  Basically, formatted as a hierarchy.  For example,

	/Bearing/Mounted/Metric/<etc>

would be a category.  I made it so that people can click on Bearing
which would present Mounted, Unmounted, etc. which they could click
on and so on until they qualified the part as much as possible to
make their search easier.

This is going to be a products database numbering about one million
entries with a lot of redundant descriptions/keywords so we're trying
to make it easy on people to find what they want.

Regards and thanks to everyone for the assistance,
-- 
matthew rice <matt@starnix.com>                               starnix inc.
tollfree: 1-87-pro-linux                         brampton, ontario, canada
http://www.starnix.com              professional linux services & products
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