>Where is the data from the web ordering system stored?<

Thanks for the reply Tammy. That's very encouraging to hear. I am not sure if you are referring to the data of the actual web system, as it's ordered, or to the data that we pull off it, and then store locally. Does it make a difference in how FM interacts with the ordering system?


Tammy Fleming wrote:
We just integrated our internal Filemaker order processing system with the mySQL database that holds the web orders. Where is the data from the web ordering system stored? You will need Filemaker 9 to use the ESS functionality. Good Luck and Happy New Year!

Tammy


On Dec 31, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Tom Bowman wrote:

Hi All:

New to the list. I owned my own printing company for a quite some time, and used FM for all our database needs. I loved what it could do.

I now am directing a department for a transcription company. They have an online order placing system, whereby clients can go in and place orders, and a confirmation email order form will be sent out to us. However, from there, all this data is being re-entered (manually, piece by piece) back into a spreadsheet which resides on our network -- extremely tedious!

I would think that FM has some sort of solution that would allow us to interface from our local network, with a similar web-based ordering system, and be able to enter locally a piece of data, say the confirmation number, from the online system, and have all the rest of the data flow into related fields back into the local database(s). Can anyone confirm that this is possible?

Thanks -- and Happy New Year!!

Tom

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