Re: Pricelist

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1999

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 22906
interpreted = N
texte = Why not use their database to export the file you put onto the Web site?You may have to modify theirs slightly to make it work for you, but thatwould be the most straightforward solution. Each week I get a newdatabase from a bookseller with about 9000 books. Early on I added somefields and did some minor modifications to their database, and now Ijust take theirs, spit out the fields I need and replace the existing dbon their site with the new one. Nitai wrote:> > Hi all,> > Maybe this is not the right forum for this question, but then again it might> be.> > We are about to go online with Webcat in a couple of weeks. We have all our> products stored in a FMP database and export it to a text file. This works> just fine.> > The one problem we have is how to keep the products database always up to> date. We are in the Hard- & Software-Business, and as you all know, price> change is very often.> > We receive every week from one of our distributors one big FMP file with> about 7000 products. I simply don't have the time or will, to go through all> the 7000 products to see if the price has changed or not and update my own> db.> > I was wondering if any of you have had a solution to this or know of people> who have solutions to this problem.> > Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.> > Sincerely,> Nitai> > ***> MacTrade - http://www.mactrade.ch> More Mac for your money> EMail: Info@mactrade.ch> Fax: 052 / 654 15 59> ***-- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster*************************************************************** AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 222-9001 ** 111 Mali Drive * FAX: (908) 222-9002 ** North Plainfield, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com ** 07062-2355 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com *************************************************************** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Pricelist (Gil Poulsen 1999)
Pricelist (Nitai 1999)

Why not use their database to export the file you put onto the Web site?You may have to modify theirs slightly to make it work for you, but thatwould be the most straightforward solution. Each week I get a newdatabase from a bookseller with about 9000 books. Early on I added somefields and did some minor modifications to their database, and now Ijust take theirs, spit out the fields I need and replace the existing dbon their site with the new one. Nitai wrote:> > Hi all,> > Maybe this is not the right forum for this question, but then again it might> be.> > We are about to go online with Webcat in a couple of weeks. We have all our> products stored in a FMP database and export it to a text file. This works> just fine.> > The one problem we have is how to keep the products database always up to> date. We are in the Hard- & Software-Business, and as you all know, price> change is very often.> > We receive every week from one of our distributors one big FMP file with> about 7000 products. I simply don't have the time or will, to go through all> the 7000 products to see if the price has changed or not and update my own> db.> > I was wondering if any of you have had a solution to this or know of people> who have solutions to this problem.> > Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.> > Sincerely,> Nitai> > ***> MacTrade - http://www.mactrade.ch> More Mac for your money> EMail: Info@mactrade.ch> Fax: 052 / 654 15 59> ***-- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster*************************************************************** AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 222-9001 ** 111 Mali Drive * FAX: (908) 222-9002 ** North Plainfield, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com ** 07062-2355 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com *************************************************************** Gil Poulsen

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