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texte = Ok, I've decided to calm down a bit on some of the stuff I have been trying to do with WebCatalog and get back to what it's good at, but before I do, here are some suggestions:Using WebCatalog to send one-to-many emails isn't going to go away. Other commerce software (including Microsoft commerce server) has in the admin pages of a shoppable website the ability to administrate an email promotional list. I think it would be a short coming of WebCatalog not to have something similar. (actually, I have built the module already, I'm just waiting for some of the following to happen)in the sendmail context: * the ability to set the priority of mail (bulk). I'm sure you can do this now, I just haven't figured out the right syntax. * a tag to delete mail that was successfully sent. I don't want this universally, because I keep the thank you and fulfillment email for redundancy. Bulk promotional mail on the other hand just fills up the EmailCompleted folder. (I might delete the thank you mail too, come to think of it) * have emailer move the unsuccessful email to a different folder... * some way to send one piece of mail to several (thousands of) people by only writing one file to the hard drive.globally: * the ability to set a task level command such that for tasks that aren't time sensitive they would be given less CPU time until completion. [delete db=carts.db&arg1=whatever&task=10(out of 100)] * the ability to turn off autocommit for one database until a number of operations are done to it. (i.e. search removelist.db then issue a delete command for matching items in another database. I only need to write out the final resulting (smaller) database. This would also improve speed?) * finding duplicate records should be easier (one field only or whole record) I think the fastest way would be to find every record, then sort it on the field in question and compare each record to the previous record. this would be pretty quick, I just haven't figured out the code yet.even harder: the ability to define some sort of a validation script for a given database so that any attempt to add a record from any webdna page would be forced to validate by one universal script. (this way I wouldn't end up with duplicate records by having up to 20 pages (with different names for the incoming information variable) appending to the same database.Oh, better search string commands (but those were already posted)If you still have time before WebCat 3, then make mine ODBC! :) Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com
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Ok, I've decided to calm down a bit on some of the stuff I have been trying to do with WebCatalog and get back to what it's good at, but before I do, here are some suggestions:Using WebCatalog to send one-to-many emails isn't going to go away. Other commerce software (including Microsoft commerce server) has in the admin pages of a shoppable website the ability to administrate an email promotional list. I think it would be a short coming of WebCatalog not to have something similar. (actually, I have built the module already, I'm just waiting for some of the following to happen)in the sendmail context: * the ability to set the priority of mail (bulk). I'm sure you can do this now, I just haven't figured out the right syntax. * a tag to delete mail that was successfully sent. I don't want this universally, because I keep the thank you and fulfillment email for redundancy. Bulk promotional mail on the other hand just fills up the EmailCompleted folder. (I might delete the thank you mail too, come to think of it) * have emailer move the unsuccessful email to a different folder... * some way to send one piece of mail to several (thousands of) people by only writing one file to the hard drive.globally: * the ability to set a task level command such that for tasks that aren't time sensitive they would be given less CPU time until completion. [delete db=carts.db&arg1=whatever&task=10(out of 100)] * the ability to turn off autocommit for one database until a number of operations are done to it. (i.e. search removelist.db then issue a delete command for matching items in another database. I only need to write out the final resulting (smaller) database. This would also improve speed?) * finding duplicate records should be easier (one field only or whole record) I think the fastest way would be to find every record, then sort it on the field in question and compare each record to the previous record. this would be pretty quick, I just haven't figured out the code yet.even harder: the ability to define some sort of a validation script for a given database so that any attempt to add a record from any webdna page would be forced to validate by one universal script. (this way I wouldn't end up with duplicate records by having up to 20 pages (with different names for the incoming information variable) appending to the same database.Oh, better search string commands (but those were already posted)If you still have time before WebCat 3, then make mine
ODBC! :) Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com
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