Re: INDEX and [area scan

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

 Craig Oettle wrote -
>
>I have two small problems.  The first is that [area scan doesn't like
>categories such as Diamond 80, it works just fine with Diamond_80.
>Apparently is doesn't like spaces in the category names, is there a work
>around?  The second is the INDEX for the products.asc.  It says in the
>manual that anytime the database is changed it will build a new INDEX
>the next time it is accessed.  My system is not building a new index, is
>there a way to force it to build a new one?  The one that exists is the
>one that was created when I installed the demo system.  The only way to
>make any changes as far as I can see is to edit the file products.asc.8
>with an editor and put the information in the file manually.  Any
>suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks in advance.
>

Craig -

I have category names two and three words long in our database and I have
no problem accessing them correctly with [page scan...].  Of course, if
another catagory includes the same string fragment, it will show up in the
results list as well (i.e. "widgets" would return the categories "widgets"
and "widgets carriers") Spaces are definitely a no-no in the products DB
key field (the item code).

I've noticed that whenever I made changes to the database it took a few
queries before I started to see the updated data.  One time, when I made
some sweeping changes, I think I restarted minivend to force the update.
In all cases, these changes were made to the tab-delimited ascii file which
I then FTP'd into the products subdirectory.  I've recently noted that,
when I make changes using Minimate, the update is immediate.

- Ed L.

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