Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-07-30 Thread OfBizSuds
I am planning to use Ofbiz to create an ecommerce website. I believe I should be able to use a copy of the ofbiz ecommerce application; only change css & ftl files to be up & running quickly. But, since the ecommerce application is quite large I am a bit lost as to where to begin! I am a web d

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-07-30 Thread OfBizSuds
Actually I need to customize the main page of the website Plus also have some specific needs as described below I have a requirement to capture more attributes (say favorite cuisine) than default for customers of my website. Is it ok to add more fields to the Party entity?? I am planning to cha

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-07-30 Thread OfBizSuds
Thank you BJ, I will look at the data model. One question, suppose I copy the ecommerce folder into hot-deploy & try to modify files in it, what should I change in the copy ofbiz-component.xml file so that when I test http://localhost:8080/ecommerce/control/main it opens the copy instead of the

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-04 Thread OfBizSuds
Thank you so much Raj, that was really helpful. I followed your model & have got quite a few things working as per our requirements. It would be great if you could also provide some steps on how to go about adding new entities (tables). Also if we need to capture more fields for the customer tabl

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-06 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks again Raj. I think I can achieve my application specific requirement using the existing Data Model itself. But I am running into some problem. Hopefully someone can help me. My requirement is that for every user I need to save their favorite restaurant. In order to try out the back end I

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-10 Thread OfBizSuds
Thank you BJ & Raj, Showing the list of restaurants on NewCustomer.ftl finally started to work. whew! Unable to figure out how to programatically save PartyRelationship for CUSTOMER to FAVORITE_RESTAURANT. I think I need to do this in CustomerEvents.xml but its calling methods all over the plac

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-10 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks Bj, But what's a Seca - is it an event? do you know where the code for create partyrelationship is? Is there a common method for doing that? -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Building-a-New-Website-Using-ecommerce-tp2307761p2320099.html Sent from the OFBi

Unable to Login to New application

2010-08-11 Thread OfBizSuds
I have created an application using create-component & have extended ecommerce (similar to ecomclone). I registered few new users through the front end. I am unable to login to this application but am able to log in to ecommerce using any of these ids. Only "admin" id seems to work with this ne

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-11 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks BJ. Today I am struggling with a different problem :) Up until yesterday my application (a clone of ecommerce) was working fine as in I could log in using a few ids that I had registered. But since this morning the Login keeps giving me the following error : "The Following Errors Occurred

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-11 Thread OfBizSuds
This is a part of my ofbiz-component file Should I change the base-permission?? -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Building-a-New-Website-Using-ecommerce-tp2307761p2321581.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-11 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks, that worked. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Building-a-New-Website-Using-ecommerce-tp2307761p2322081.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Building a New Website Using "ecommerce"

2010-08-11 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks BJ, removed OFBTools & it works! -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Building-a-New-Website-Using-ecommerce-tp2307761p2322082.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

MySQL/ Postgres for Production??

2010-08-25 Thread OfBizSuds
Which is better MySQL or Postgres to use with Apache Ofbiz in Production? Are they both free to be used in production? Any performance issues faced with either one? Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks, Sudha -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/MySQL-Postg

RE: Including an Iframe

2010-08-25 Thread OfBizSuds
Hi Gavin, Did it work?? I also have a similar need to include an IFrame hence checking. Please let me know. Thanks, Sudha -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Including-an-Iframe-tp2332578p2339146.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.co

Re: MySQL/ Postgres for Production??

2010-08-25 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks. Am I understanding correctly that "Postgres Plus Standard Server" is free to use in Production? For this, there will be no support from them correct? Has any of you used this with success? -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/MySQL-Postgres-for-Production-

Error - Migrating from Derby to MySQL

2010-08-26 Thread OfBizSuds
I am trying to get ofbiz to work with MySQL DB instead of the default Derby db. Tried following instructions given in the Production setup & that in the llnk http://www.flagword.net/2010/06/29/how-to-migrate-ofbiz-from-derby-to-mysql-db/ Has anyone tried this? I exported the data to XML thru w

Re: Error - Migrating from Derby to MySQL

2010-08-26 Thread OfBizSuds
Thanks Nico grant all privileges on ofbiz.* to 'ofbiz'@'localhost' identified by 'ofbiz'; worked! -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Error-Migrating-from-Derby-to-MySQL-tp2339328p2339350.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Including iFrames

2010-09-06 Thread OfBizSuds
Hello, Using ofbiz, is it possible to build like a dashboard/ portal where we have our own website specific content and also iframes having contents coming from different websites?? Just as an example one iframe could have content of finance.yahoo.com; one could have news.yahoo.com, another wit

One website, many stores - is it possible?

2010-09-09 Thread OfBizSuds
A few questions regarding Stores 1) The website ecommerce has productstoreId = 9000 (website table). So if my application is a clone of ecommerce do I also have to stick with productstoreId as 9000? If I can create a new productstoreId, how do I associate it with my application. Is it through the

Recording Commissions from Partner website

2010-09-16 Thread OfBizSuds
Suppose we have a link to a partner website from our site & whenever a user from our website goes to their website and makes a purchase we get a commission. We have no control over the partner website & at the end of every month they give us a list of purchases made thru this link & what the comm