Tri, The sole purpose of the X_CONTENT_XREF entity is to associate specific Content (content_id) to a product store (product_store_id).
At this time there is no 'policy' for contributing back to BigFish SVN; could you be more specific on what your are looking to contribute? Regards Len -----Original Message----- From: Tri Vssic [mailto:t...@vssic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:53 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com Thank BigFish / OFBiz In X_CONTENT_XREF table has CONTENT_TYPE_ID column, is this for faster performance query because existing CONTENT table ? Could you tell me more clearly for setting up ProductStore to a Domain (Multi-Site) as mr Nick said ? And how is the policy for contribute (commit) to BigFish's SVN, we already have Vietnamese language for BF version 1.10. Thank you Tri 2013/5/8 Nick Rosser <nros...@solveda.com> > Ted, > > Lots of questions :-) Thanks for the interest ... I'll try to answer them > as best I can: > > > Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even > only, with regard to ecommerce? > > NICK: BigFish is an extension of OFBiz. We re-use trunk code, the entity > model, and the great service layer. So, for example, we have a concept > called "HEADER_LINKS" -- this is a piece of content that manages the > display of the very top of each eCommerce page (where your would normally > have Store locator, My Account etc.). This is managed in regular OFBiz > "content" entities ... but more easily maintained in the Admin Module > (Content -> Site Info -> Header Links). So, you can see that by this > simple example that we're reusing a great feature of OFBiz, just putting a > much more manageable interface behind it. This is what BigFish is really > all about -- reusing features of OFBiz, having our own Admin Module, and > giving control to the business users to manage their site. > > > If not, can you point to a document > that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am > interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather > hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the > inventory, accounting and project management features). > > NICK: right now it is very much focused on eCommerce and the customer > facing aspect of eCommerce. We are slowly exposing more of the backend ERP > features into the BigFish Admin Module (for example, we're recently exposed > the order-status-change features in the Order Management module). Key word > here is "exposing", not re-writing or writing ... reusing existing OFBiz > services. Inventory will be exposed throughout this year. > > > > Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up > instructions on how to deploy that? > > NICK: this is a todo. You can see the existing Help at > http://bigfish.solveda.com/**help/index.htm<http://bigfish.solveda.com/help/ index.htm>-- the "HOW DO I" and "GUIDES" have the most value. We are essentially > using the PRODUCT_STORE feature and linking up Product Catalogs to the > Product-Store. All out-of-the-box stuff. There is a new entity in the data > model called X_CONTENT_XREF (we've prefixed our new entities with "X" to > make it clearer) that maps various content to the Product-Store (not > supported out-of-the-box). We are working on another "extended site" for a > client at which point documentation will be available. It's actually not > that difficult. > > > > In connection to this, can a merchant readily > hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the > ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make > their own CSS, and drop it in place? > > > NICK: yes, exactly. If you compare our two demo sites Fashion-House and > Electronic-Store there are basically very few differences: same BigFish > application; different database with different products; different CSS; > different content; different parameters. That's pretty much it. For the CSS > we've spent a lot of time generated markup that lends itself to being > morphed by CSS -- working out really nicely imo. > > > And also concernig this, what do > you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a > pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. > > > NICK: mainly up to the client to provide good keywords. Some highlights: > we use sensible defaults for page titles and meta tags (all can be > overridden in the Admin Module). We have a sitemap.xml generator. We have > friendly URL's built into the solution. > > > > One last > question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to > what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, > but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to > set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products > (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses > them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know > OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to > me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. > > NICK: not entirely sure to be honest, not sure I quite understand. The > digital content can be nicely accommodated but it would really depend on > your detailed requirements. > > > > Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that > involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it > acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of > running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it > in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? > (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) > > > NICK: I know we've talked about having a public read-only SVN available on > the site. I'll follow-up with the techs. Shouldn't be a problem. > > Nick > > > On 5/7/2013 2:21 PM, Ted Byers wrote: > > Hi Nick, >> >> Impressive! >> >> Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even >> only, with regard to ecommerce? If not, can you point to a document >> that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am >> interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather >> hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the >> inventory, accounting and project management features). >> >> Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up >> instructions on how to deploy that? I would assume, from what you >> wrote, that it would be feasible to add more sites at any time after >> the initial deployment. I would assume, further, that each site is >> connected to a single party, though a given party could have multiple >> sites, and that info from two sites in a single deployment will not >> bleed into each other. In connection to this, can a merchant readily >> hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the >> ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make >> their own CSS, and drop it in place? That is what I did for my own >> websites (developed in Perl): If one website operator wants a >> different look and feel (even a very drastic change from my defaults), >> they need only modify a CSS and drop it in place; and thus I'd assume >> you did/support something similar. And also concernig this, what do >> you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a >> pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. One last >> question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to >> what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, >> but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to >> set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products >> (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses >> them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know >> OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to >> me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. >> >> Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that >> involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it >> acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of >> running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it >> in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? >> (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) >> >> Thanks >> >> Ted >> >> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Nick Rosser<nros...@solveda.com> wrote: >> >>> David, >>> >>> In a nutshell it's an extension of OFBiz -- a fully functional eCommerce >>> solution. >>> >>> Check out more details at http://bigfish.solveda.com >>> >>> In particular, look at the demo instances. >>> >>> Fashion House eCommerce: >>> http://bigfish.solveda.com:**8082/online/shop/main<http://bigfish.solveda.co m:8082/online/shop/main> >>> Fashion House Admin Module: >>> https://bigfish.solveda.com:**8442/osafe-admin/control/main<https://bigfish. solveda.com:8442/osafe-admin/control/main> >>> (login is admin/ofbiz) >>> >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> *Nick Rosser* >>> nros...@solveda.com >>> Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 >>> Cell: 1.516.901.1720 >>> www.solveda.com >>> >>> On 5/7/2013 1:06 PM, David Saenz wrote: >>> >>>> What is bigfish? >>>> >>>> On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: >>>> >>>>> All, >>>>> >>>>> (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) >>>>> >>>>> I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now >>>>> live. >>>>> >>>>> Check out www.1800athlete.com >>>>> >>>>> This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more >>>>> interesting: >>>>> >>>>> * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build >>>>> www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform >>>>> * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up >>>>> with the "1800athlete" site >>>>> * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing >>>>> BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability >>>>> o single database to support both sites >>>>> o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site >>>>> o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and >>>>> separate product catalog >>>>> o no additional programming was required to build >>>>> www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, >>>>> configuration and it's a go! >>>>> >>>>> It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly >>>>> any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have >>>>> very >>>>> good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. >>>>> >>>>> For more information about BigFish check out >>>>> http://bigfish.solveda.com. >>>>> More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements >>>>> and more success stories. Enjoy! >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> >>>>> *Nick Rosser* >>>>> nros...@solveda.com >>>>> Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 >>>>> Cell: 1.516.901.1720 >>>>> www.solveda.com >>>>> >>>>> >> >> -- Tri Chairman www.vssic.com Your FREEmium NETWORK Viet Nam Solution and Service for Information vCloudPortal(Portal) & vCloudBusiness(ERP) Sun Certified Enterprise Architect Ipv6: 2001:ee0:0:8001::20 +84922446668
