Re: Howto modify my product DB?

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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You can do as you see fit.  My experience has been that when I attempted to alter key fields in
products.asc like code & price does a great job of breaking MV because these are key or perhaps reserved
words.

Barry

John Foster wrote:

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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:
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from "Michael E. Havlicek" <havlicek@infinet.com>     ******
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> --------------------STUFF SNIPPED----------------------.
> > >
> > > 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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