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Re: [mv] Getting flypage to recognize item codes?
I believe I remember reading in the docs that editing products.asc has no
effect when using an sql-based setup.
- Ed L.
>****** message to minivend-users from "Christopher P. Lindsey"
><lindsey@mallorn.com> ******
>
>> I'll take a quick stab because I made this mistake too :P
>
>It's good to know that I'm not alone... :)
>
>> Are you editing the products.asc file in /home/minivend or the one in the
>> directory you installed your catalog to (usually ~/catalogs/simple)
>>
>> The correct one is the one in the installed dir (~/catalogs/simple/) You
>> can spend all day changing the one in /home/minivend and get nowhere. The
>> other thing to check is the ownership and permissions of your products.asc
>> file. If none of those are it, drop me another line and I'll see if I can
>> help ya.
>
>This is something I'm confused about. Is products.asc still needed for
>SQL-based databases? I know that the database definition has products.asc
>specified (
>
> Database products products.asc dbi:mysql:nursery:mysql:3306
> .. (some stuff deleted)
> Database products COLUMN_DEF code=char(10) PRIMARY KEY
> Database products COLUMN_DEF price=float, discount=float
> Database products NUMERIC price=float, discount
>
>), but why? Or do I also have to keep a local ASCII copy of the database
>(this seems wrong to me, as the usefulness of SQL interfaces seems to
>be lost). The database already exists from other applications, so I
>don't want products.asc to do any kind of importing.
>
>Am I way off-base? Is products.asc needed?
>
>Confused Chris
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