Re: Howto modify my product DB?

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

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Do you mean that we can not or should not change the field names in the
products.asc file??
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Barry Treahy wrote:
> 
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> You modify the products.asc file; not only the rows which represent each data record, but the colums
> for each field of the record.  The first line of products.asc identifies the name for each column
> and experience has taught me not to mess with the default fields; you can add more, but don't go
> through the hassle of altering the names...  This file is then automatically imported into the .gdbm
> database file, assuming that is the database type you use.
> 
> Barry
> 
> Michael E. Havlicek wrote:
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> > ******    message to minivend-users from "Michael E. Havlicek" <havlicek@infinet.com>     ******
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> > Hi,
> >
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> > I started by hacking the sample catalog. First I want to change the "artist"
> > column to "manufacturer". Then I want to create a custom catalog with all
> > of my own fields that correspond to the existing conventions used by the
> > company contracting me. How do I do that? Is there documentation exlaining how
> > to build a catalog from scratch?
> >
> > -Mike
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