Re: Beta (?) version of WebCatalog 2.1

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16141
interpreted = N
texte = >I was just wandering how things are going with the new version of >WebCatalog 2.1. Is it still in beta and where can I find this >betaversion. Is it stable enough to use it on a production server so that >we could use the new tags, cookies, etc.? Do I need another serialnumber >for it.Things are going great, and you can get it from our public ftp server robin.smithmicro.com>Next, a customer uses a filemaker database with about 700 products. He >also has a field with an URL in it of related pruductinformation. Could >this URL show up on a results page after a product queryYes, absolutely! Any text from a database can be placed into an HTML page, including text that contains HTML.>and what would >be the best strategy for keeping his productdatabase up-to-date. He would >like to upload an export of his filemaker database every x days. What >does he need to do to flush the database which might be in memory.The best strategy is to give them ftp access to that folder, and have them export to merge format from FMPro. Then give them a URL to a template (in that folder) which contains a [closedatabase xx.db] tag, and after that they can upload the new text file. MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that they don't use MacBinary upload! Binary or Text mode should work fine.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Beta (?) version of WebCatalog 2.1 (Grant Hulbert 1998)
  2. Beta (?) version of WebCatalog 2.1 (Sjoerd Jan ter Welle 1998)
>I was just wandering how things are going with the new version of >WebCatalog 2.1. Is it still in beta and where can I find this >betaversion. Is it stable enough to use it on a production server so that >we could use the new tags, cookies, etc.? Do I need another serialnumber >for it.Things are going great, and you can get it from our public ftp server robin.smithmicro.com>Next, a customer uses a filemaker database with about 700 products. He >also has a field with an URL in it of related pruductinformation. Could >this URL show up on a results page after a product queryYes, absolutely! Any text from a database can be placed into an HTML page, including text that contains HTML.>and what would >be the best strategy for keeping his productdatabase up-to-date. He would >like to upload an export of his filemaker database every x days. What >does he need to do to flush the database which might be in memory.The best strategy is to give them ftp access to that folder, and have them export to merge format from FMPro. Then give them a URL to a template (in that folder) which contains a [closedatabase xx.db] tag, and after that they can upload the new text file. MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that they don't use MacBinary upload! Binary or Text mode should work fine.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Grant Hulbert

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