Re: DON'T use old cart file!

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14244
interpreted = N
texte = natasha wrote: > > Hi Ken, > Well the idea seems obvious, as a matter of fact, when I started thinking > about customizing, I thougth in this direction, but I had several problems: > > > > What you might want to consider doing instead, would be to make > > WebCat create a special database for each of your repeat customers - > > I have about 2000 regular customers-does that mean that I'll have to have > 2000 databases? I want only the customers who WANT to save the record > to do it, and not automatically. So I'll have to have this save record button > which will have to create a database identified by customers > accountnumber and put the items there, and I have no idea how to make WC > to create a database that is not there already.Actually this could just be 1 premade (atleast it will exist even empty) database that would store that info by clients account number and sku they purchase, then when they return it just looks them up via their account number that is of course different for each client. So each time they purchase something it would add that information to the big database, so you would have 1 database with the information for your 2,000 clients. (you probably could also add a Would you like your purchases saved for future reference and if they answer yes, then save it off, just in case its a one time purchase and they may not want it as part of their normal little custom shoppers helper section you are working on.Does that make sense? Maybe Ken can come up with a cleaner explaination to that. -- [[[[[ Nevin Lyne - admin@besites.com - LAN / WAN Consultant ]]]]] Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (N. Lyne 1997)
  2. Auto-closing of databases (was DON'T use old cart file!) (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (Bennie Warren 1997)
  4. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (natasha 1997)
  5. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (N. Lyne 1997)
  6. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  7. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  8. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (natasha 1997)
  9. Re: DON'T use old cart file! (bob 1997)
  10. DON'T use old cart file! (Kenneth Grome 1997)
natasha wrote: > > Hi Ken, > Well the idea seems obvious, as a matter of fact, when I started thinking > about customizing, I thougth in this direction, but I had several problems: > > > > What you might want to consider doing instead, would be to make > > WebCat create a special database for each of your repeat customers - > > I have about 2000 regular customers-does that mean that I'll have to have > 2000 databases? I want only the customers who WANT to save the record > to do it, and not automatically. So I'll have to have this save record button > which will have to create a database identified by customers > accountnumber and put the items there, and I have no idea how to make WC > to create a database that is not there already.Actually this could just be 1 premade (atleast it will exist even empty) database that would store that info by clients account number and sku they purchase, then when they return it just looks them up via their account number that is of course different for each client. So each time they purchase something it would add that information to the big database, so you would have 1 database with the information for your 2,000 clients. (you probably could also add a Would you like your purchases saved for future reference and if they answer yes, then save it off, just in case its a one time purchase and they may not want it as part of their normal little custom shoppers helper section you are working on.Does that make sense? Maybe Ken can come up with a cleaner explaination to that. -- [[[[[ Nevin Lyne - admin@besites.com - LAN / WAN Consultant ]]]]] N. Lyne

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