Hi Ylan:
Great question! I appreciate your honesty.
IMO the OOTB OFBiz eCommerce and Catalog Manager features/function
covered in my books have not changed significantly from the release of
4.0 that I used. There have been enhancements - but not many in the
eCommerce component. The reason I used a 4.0 release, BTW, was because
at the time I started writing the books (about last June), the 9.04
eCommerce demo store had lots of bugs in the screen renderings. I
couldn't get good clean screen shots for inclusion in the books. Those
have since been fixed and committed back to the project.
Everything you see in the eCommerce book is true for release 9.04.
Unfortunately, the Catalog Manager has actually digressed in one very
important way (from an end-user's perspective) since I finished the
book. You can no longer replace a web store logo using the Catalog
Manager. You must use themes. Aside from that, I believe everything else
is the same. There are some enhancements, dynamic theme selection being
the biggest one in the 9.04 Catalog Manager. (Theme selection, however
only effects the look and feel of the Catalog Manager and other back-end
tools and not the eCommerce demo site.) But not many. In fact, my plans
for the upgrade to this book are mostly new screen shots and more
product management "howtos". For example, setting up complicated
hierarchies of catalogs/categories and product bundling.
Regards,
Ruth
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Ylan Segal wrote:
On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Patrick:
You could purchase and read my 2 books. (http://www.myofbiz.com) They explain
OFBiz ecommerce from an end-user's point of view. What you get OOTB. Once you
understand what comes with OFBiz, it makes it much easier to customize. Some
other people have found these useful.
Ruth,
From what I see on your website, your books are for release 4.0, and the current release of 9.04. How different are the releases? I usually try to avoid books that are for previous releases of software, but I guess it depends on how much has changed.
Thanks,
