RE: Howto modify my product DB?

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

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The documentation list the fields Minivend needs in the products database.
They are obvious things like code (column) and price, but you have great
latitude to change it otherwise.

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Barry Treahy
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:11 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: Howto modify my product DB?
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
> <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
>
> 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:
>
> > ******    message to minivend-users from John Foster
> <jfoster@augustmail.com>     ******
> >
> > Do you mean that we can not or should not change the field
> names in the
> > products.asc file??
> > --------------------------------------------
> > 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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