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Paul Piper

Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Hey Guys,

we just released our demo store: <http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net.
We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store that
lets you download audio books for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz, of
course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce component:

· Implementation of Apache Solr solr is implemented as a
standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease

· Complete rewrite of all store pages cleaned up html & CSS

· Responsive Design try looking at the store with your mobile
device

· Redesigned Checkout no registration necessary for
one-time-shoppers

Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books, let
me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.

Cheers,

Paul

---

Paul Piper

Geschäftsführer

Web: <http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com

Tel: (+49) 611-94589441

Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066

Fax: (+49) 611-94589449

eMail: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]

ilscipio GmbH

Am Drosselschlag 7

D-35452 Heuchelheim

Germany

Pierre Smits

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Hi Paul,

Wow!!! Nice look-and-feel.

One issue though. When switching from EN to DE the labels didn't change and
the descriptions didn't change either. Maybe intentional.

Regards,

Pierre

Op 17 april 2012 12:52 schreef Paul Piper <[hidden email]> het volgende:

> Hey Guys,
>
>
>
> we just released our demo store: <http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net
> .
> We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store
> that
> lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz, of
> course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce
> component:
>
>
>
> · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>
> · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html & CSS
>
> · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
> device
>
> · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
> one-time-shoppers
>
>
>
> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
> let
> me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Paul Piper
>
> Geschäftsführer
>
>
>
>
>
> Web: <http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>
> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>
> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>
> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>
> eMail: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>
>
>
>
>
> ilscipio GmbH
>
> Am Drosselschlag 7
>
> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>
> Germany
>
>
>
>

Adrian Crum-3

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

I recommend spending some time looking at your HTML source. For example,
take a look at the ending markup on this page:

http://www.syracus.net/products/DRAMATIC_WORKS_C

-Adrian

On 4/17/2012 11:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
>
>
> we just released our demo store:<http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net.
> We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store that
> lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz, of
> course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce component:
>
>
>
> · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>
> · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html& CSS
>
> · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
> device
>
> · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
> one-time-shoppers
>
>
>
> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books, let
> me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Paul Piper
>
> Geschäftsführer
>
>
>
>
>
> Web:<http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>
> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>
> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>
> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>
> eMail:<mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>
>
>
>
>
> ilscipio GmbH
>
> Am Drosselschlag 7
>
> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>
> Germany
>
>
>
>

krishan.babbar

Getting multiple order confirmation mails after placing an order

Hi All,

We are using Ofbiz V-9.04. We are facing an issue with order checkout, not
exactly with checkout rather with emails. We can place an order and complete
the checkout process. It is expected to get single mail with subject "OFBiz
Demo - Order Confirmation #WSOD10290" but we are getting 4 similar mails due
to re-scheduling. Following are the logs for email failure. Looking forward
for your help to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance. :)

2012-04-17 17:57:16,832 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
EmailServices.java:571:INFO ] Expanded email subject to: OFBiz Demo - Order
Confirmation #WSOD10290
2012-04-17 17:57:16,833 (default-invoker-Thread-19)
[ServiceEcaCondition.java:156:WARN ] From Field (communicationEventId) is
not found in context for sendMailMultiPart, defaulting to null.
2012-04-17 17:57:16,833 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceEcaRule.java:157:INFO ] Running Service ECA Service:
createCommEventFromEmail, triggered by rule on Service: sendMailMultiPart
2012-04-17 17:57:16,996 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
SequenceUtil.java:348:INFO ] Got bank of sequenced IDs for
[CommunicationEvent]; curSeqId=10630, maxSeqId=10640, bankSize=10
2012-04-17 17:57:17,040 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
Log.java:117:INFO ] [CommonPermissionServices.xml#genericBasePermissionCheck
line 41] Checking for primary permission PARTYMGR_CREATE
2012-04-17 17:57:17,041 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
Log.java:117:INFO ] [CommonPermissionServices.xml#genericBasePermissionCheck
line 48] Checking for alternate permission PARTYMGR_ROLE_CREATE
2012-04-17 17:57:17,366 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceDispatcher.java:604:INFO ] Sync service [default/createPartyRole]
finished in [349] milliseconds with response [{responseMessage=success}]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,370 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceDispatcher.java:604:INFO ] Sync service
[default/createCommunicationEventRoleWithoutPermission] finished in [364]
milliseconds with response [{responseMessage=success}]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,373 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceEcaRule.java:137:INFO ] For Service ECA [createCommunicationEvent] on
[commit] got false for condition:
[statusId][equals][COM_ENTERED][true][String]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,373 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceEcaRule.java:157:INFO ] Running Service ECA Service: linkToProduct,
triggered by rule on Service: createCommunicationEvent
2012-04-17 17:57:17,614 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceDispatcher.java:604:INFO ] Sync service [default/linkToProduct]
finished in [240] milliseconds with response [{responseMessage=success}]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,615 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceDispatcher.java:604:INFO ] Sync service
[default/createCommunicationEvent] finished in [761] milliseconds with
response [{communicationEventId=10630, responseMessage=success}]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,616 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
ServiceDispatcher.java:604:INFO ] Sync service
[default/createCommEventFromEmail] finished in [781] milliseconds with
response [{responseMessage=success, communicationEventId=10630}]
2012-04-17 17:57:17,616 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
EmailServices.java:105:INFO ] SendMail Running, for communicationEventId :
10630
2012-04-17 17:57:17,635 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
EmailServices.java:255:INFO ] 2 multiparts found
2012-04-17 17:57:17,635 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
EmailServices.java:261:INFO ] part of type: text/html and size: 7230
2012-04-17 17:57:17,637 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
EmailServices.java:265:INFO ] part of type: application/pdf and size: 5892

org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:226)
org.ofbiz.service.GenericDispatcher.runSync(GenericDispatcher.java:163)
org.ofbiz.party.communication.CommunicationEventServices.createAttachmentContent(CommunicationEventServices.java:1023)
org.ofbiz.party.communication.CommunicationEventServices.updateCommEventAfterEmail(CommunicationEventServices.java:649)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.serviceInvoker(StandardJavaEngine.java:100)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.runSync(StandardJavaEngine.java:57)
org.ofbiz.service.ModelServiceReader$GenericInvokerImpl.runSync(ModelServiceReader.java:761)
_$gen.file_58$.applications.party.servicedef.services_46$xml_35$updateCommEventAfterEmail.runSync(file:/applications/party/servicedef/services.xml#updateCommEventAfterEmail:900)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:399)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:226)
org.ofbiz.service.GenericDispatcher.runSync(GenericDispatcher.java:163)
org.ofbiz.service.eca.ServiceEcaAction.runAction(ServiceEcaAction.java:138)
org.ofbiz.service.eca.ServiceEcaRule.eval(ServiceEcaRule.java:159)
org.ofbiz.service.eca.ServiceEcaUtil.evalRules(ServiceEcaUtil.java:188)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:500)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:226)
org.ofbiz.service.GenericDispatcher.runSync(GenericDispatcher.java:163)
org.ofbiz.common.email.EmailServices.sendMailFromScreen(EmailServices.java:587)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.serviceInvoker(StandardJavaEngine.java:100)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.runSync(StandardJavaEngine.java:57)
org.ofbiz.service.ModelServiceReader$GenericInvokerImpl.runSync(ModelServiceReader.java:761)
_$gen.file_58$..framework.common.servicedef.services_95$email_46$xml_35$sendMailFromScreen.runSync(file:/framework/common/servicedef/services_email.xml#sendMailFromScreen:83)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:399)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:226)
org.ofbiz.service.GenericDispatcher.runSync(GenericDispatcher.java:163)
org.ofbiz.order.order.OrderServices.sendOrderNotificationScreen(OrderServices.java:2704)
org.ofbiz.order.order.OrderServices.sendOrderConfirmNotification(OrderServices.java:2551)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.serviceInvoker(StandardJavaEngine.java:100)
org.ofbiz.service.engine.StandardJavaEngine.runSync(StandardJavaEngine.java:57)
org.ofbiz.service.ModelServiceReader$GenericInvokerImpl.runSync(ModelServiceReader.java:761)
_$gen.file_58$.applications.order.servicedef.services_46$xml_35$sendOrderConfirmation.runSync(file:/applications/order/servicedef/services.xml#sendOrderConfirmation:50)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:399)
org.ofbiz.service.ServiceDispatcher.runSync(ServiceDispatcher.java:226)
org.ofbiz.service.GenericDispatcher.runSync(GenericDispatcher.java:163)
org.ofbiz.service.job.GenericServiceJob.exec(GenericServiceJob.java:71)
org.ofbiz.service.job.JobInvoker.run(JobInvoker.java:242)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2012-04-17 17:57:28,914 (default-invoker-Thread-19) [
TransactionUtil.java:378:WARN ]
---- exception
report ----------------------------------------------------------
[TransactionUtil.setRollbackOnly] Calling transaction setRollbackOnly; this
stack trace shows where this is happening:
Exception: java.lang.Exception
Message: Failure in findOne operation for entity [PartyRole]:
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericModelException: [GenericDelegator.findOne] Passed
primary key is not a valid primary key:
[GenericEntity:PartyRole][roleTypeId,OWNER(java.lang.String)]. Rolling back
transaction.
---- stack
trace ---------------------------------------------------------------
java.lang.Exception: Failure in findOne operation for entity [PartyRole]:
org.ofbiz.entity.GenericModelException: [GenericDelegator.findOne] Passed
primary key is not a valid primary key:
[GenericEntity:PartyRole][roleTypeId,OWNER(java.lang.String)]. Rolling back
transaction.
org.ofbiz.entity.transaction.TransactionUtil.setRollbackOnly(TransactionUtil.java:378)
.
.
.
.
.
.

Thanks,
Krishan Babbar
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Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

I'm always impressed when an OFBiz consulting firm actually uses OFBiz as
their main website. This tells me that you really understand the software
instead of throwing up a PHP-based Magento site. Well done.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Paul Piper <[hidden email]> wrote:

Divesh Dutta

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

On quick notice , found: http://www.syracus.net/control/main

You may use, requestdispatcher's forward method in index.jsp of your application.

For eg:

<%pageContext.forward("control/main");%>

This will not include control/main in your URL: http://www.syracus.net.

This is good for SEO perspective.

Thanks
--
Divesh

On Apr 17, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Paul Piper wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
>
>
> we just released our demo store: <http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net.
> We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store that
> lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz, of
> course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce component:
>
>
>
> · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>
> · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html & CSS
>
> · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
> device
>
> · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
> one-time-shoppers
>
>
>
> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books, let
> me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Paul Piper
>
> Geschäftsführer
>
>
>
>
>
> Web: <http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>
> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>
> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>
> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>
> eMail: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>
>
>
>
>
> ilscipio GmbH
>
> Am Drosselschlag 7
>
> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>
> Germany
>
>
>

Sebastian Schirmer

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

Hi Paul,

how is the solr search integrated? There are a lot of parameters in the
result url.

<http://www.syracus.net/control/keywordsearch/~VIEW_SIZE=9/~VIEW_INDEX=90/~CURR_INDEX=11/~SEARCH_STRING=*:*/~SEARCH_FILTER=%20-isVirtual:true%20catalog:SyracusBookCatalog%20catalog:SyracusBookCatalog%20catalog:SyracusBookCatalog%20catalog:SyracusBookCatalog>

kind regards
Sebastian

--On Dienstag, 17. April 2012 12:52 +0200 Paul Piper <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
>
>
> we just released our demo store: <http://www.syracus.net>
> www.syracus.net. We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we
> opted for a store that lets you download audio books… for free! All is
> based upon Apache OFBiz, of course, though we did some extraordinary
> changes to the ecommerce component:
>
>
>
> · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>
> · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html & CSS
>
> · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
> device
>
> · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
> one-time-shoppers
>
>
>
> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
> let me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Paul Piper
>
> Geschäftsführer
>
>
>
>
>
> Web: <http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>
> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>
> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>
> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>
> eMail: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>
>
>
>
>
> ilscipio GmbH
>
> Am Drosselschlag 7
>
> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>
> Germany

Robert Gan

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

wow this is fast! How many products do you have in the shop? What are the server data? how have you got it that super-fast? :)

Paul Piper

AW: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Hi Robert,

no tricks or hidden magic there. The server is actually a virtual host, so
there isn't too much power behind it. Behind the scenes, we did a rewrite of
the core functionalities. We found that one of the things within the
eCommerce Store that is rather "slow" is the category tree and the lookup
for products. We opted for another approach, where we used solr to index all
products. We used the calculated trails function I committed a few weeks ago
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4580) to generate the trail of
each product on create and store within the solr data.

Because of it, you can do many things that require a lot of calculation
otherwise: you can select all products of a category, even when they are
only assigned to a subcategory. You can look up products much faster and so
on. In comparsion to the ecommerce component, you will notice, for instance,
that there we first generate a list of all products, then loop over a part
of them, then do selects for the individual data and so on. Here only a
single lookup is required. Best is - this scales really well. There is
currently only around 100 products in the db, but with our other projects we
had no problems to handling tens of thousands of products without much of an
impact on the performance.

Regards,
Paul

---
Paul Piper
Geschäftsführer

Web: http://www.ilscipio.com
Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
eMail: [hidden email]

ilscipio GmbH
Am Drosselschlag 7
D-35452 Heuchelheim
Germany

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Robert G. [mailto:[hidden email]]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2012 19:08
An: [hidden email]
Betreff: Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

wow this is fast! How many products do you have in the shop? What are the
server data? how have you got it that super-fast? :)

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Robert Gan

Re: AW: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

really nice, cause my ecommerce will has about 30.000 products and asking all the time myself it ofbiz will handle it with reasonable speed. So im really interessted in information about the solr integration :)

you dont want to think about offering a kind of manual here about solr integration? :):)

I know it is always difficult for service companies, who sell this know how and work to their customer to offer these great milestones for free.

maybe you can think one more time about it :)

thanks for sharing your experience!

Solr integration

Sakthivel Vellingiri

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Robert -

Just so you know, I learnt from this User mailing list about Bigfish
<http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfFeatures.html> <Ofbiz based eCommerce
solution> that has Apache Solr integration OOTB; Bigfish is offered
in Apache V2.0 license; You might want to contact Nick <copied> for
futher questions; Nick also offered to consider contributing Apache
Solr Integration to Ofbiz;

- Regards
Sakthi

On 4/19/12, Robert G. <[hidden email]> wrote:

> really nice, cause my ecommerce will has about 30.000 products and asking
> all
> the time myself it ofbiz will handle it with reasonable speed. So im really
> interessted in information about the solr integration :)
>
> you dont want to think about offering a kind of manual here about solr
> integration? :):)
>
> I know it is always difficult for service companies, who sell this know how
> and work to their customer to offer these great milestones for free.
>
> maybe you can think one more time about it :)
>
> thanks for sharing your experience!
>
>
> Solr integration
>
> --
> View this message in context:
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> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

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Paul Piper

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Hi Robert,

we are actually considering to commit our apache solr component (which is self-containing, btw, and not integrated into the ecommerce store). And apart from the shameless self-advertising, we of course also take an interest in bigfish and their upcoming commit.

Cheers,
Paul

Ruth Hoffman-2

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

Hi Paul:
Congratulations! Really nice site. Very clean lines and the one page
checkout works! I do like your anonymous checkout. Easy to follow,
concise and does the job.

[FYI - I'm trying to come to grips with this on the MyOFBiz.com site. On
my site - like yours - initially I didn't want anyone have to register
to buy a product. So, if you checkout anonymously an account is
automatically created for you when the order is created. AFTER the
return from a successful PayPal payment, the PayPal email address is
used to create the login id. The login id is the PayPal email address
and I check to make sure that the buyer's PayPal address isn't already
known to the system. If it is, then I don't create another login. The
reason I did this is because I don't want users to have to create yet
another login on my site.]

Here's the problem - and it has nothing to do with OFBiz, but everything
to do with the way I notify users of a successful/paid purchase: Every
once-in-a-while a buyer has a "bad" PayPal email account address or the
myofbiz.com domain is blacklisted on the buyer's side. So, the buyer
doesn't get notification of account creation/activation. I'm now
struggling with the best way to handle this as I don't want to force my
buyers to create/login to an account prior to payment. But I might have
to pretty soon here.You won't have this problem because you don't need
to verify they paid.

Sorry about stealing your thunder....but maybe you have some thoughts
from a design perspective on how to handle this since you did such a
nice job on your site?

BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
is really nice to see OFBiz consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to
add - Thanks for doing this.

I'm curious about Solr. I have not heard that thousands of products are
a performance issue if you use OFBiz caching wisely. Have you found that
was the case or did you implement Solr for other reasons?

Finally, where are you getting the books - that you can give them away
for free?

Thanks
Ruth Hoffman
[hidden email]

On 4/17/12 6:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:

Paul Piper

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Hi Ruth,

thanks for the great feedback :)

To answer your questions, I think you got a mixup in the paypal integration there. Without going over the details, I would recommend to implement paypal the following way:

* Create User (use his paypal-eMailaddress in your form, you can prefill paypal with this, btw)
* Create Order (needed for paypal processing anyhow)
* Forward user to paypal (do handshake and all that in the background, depending on the implementation i believe you have to create a session?!)
* Deliver paypal with a return url, pickup orderId with it, complete order; handle paypal status
* Use email-Address to provide customers with a way of accessing the site and to provide them with an order status.

I don't think there is much of a workaround otherwise, since you will require to create an order, which requires a user to be set up. If you want, contact me directly, and we can discuss it there in detail. Paypal, however, only allows two ways of implementation: by iFrame, or by a full redirect, so it leaves you with a limited amount of choices...

About the product caching: it is not entirely true. See, the problem with the original eCommerce App is completed without performance in mind. If i recall correctly: Take the category screens for instance, which really on the large product widgets. If you look more carefully, you will notice that the widgets include a multitude of groovy files and so does the category widget. The reason being, that it was designed by reusing some already available groovy script that takes care of the actual data (some were chained because one delivers some informaton that is needed by another). The problem is, that groovy scripts are not handled in a global manner, but you iterate over them every time, just for data preparation. So yes, with caching you can somewhat control the database queries, but the groovy scripts for actually accessing the data are going to be called either way. There are many obstacles like this and there was alot of room for improvement ...

The books are going to be our own little secret, but you can be sure they are your perfectly legal to download - have fun :)

Cheers,
Paul

Mike Z

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Ruth Hoffman-2

>BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
is really nice to see OFBiz
>consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to add - Thanks for doing this.

OK: I'm not a consultant, however soon I may employ one. When I see a
firm using OFBiz for their OWN corporate website, that tells me that they
are willing to eat their own dogfood, and I'm impressed by that. It also
tells me that they REALLY understand OFBiz's own CMS capabilities (I
don't), which gives me confidence in the firm. Basically, show me that you
can do.

Also, it tells me what MY future business is capable of, because the last
thing I want to do is support another CMS solution, with another technology
(PHP), with another database, and another consultant.

I think Paul's website (http://www.ilscipio.com) looks great and
professional, just as good as any Magento based website. Impressive.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Ruth Hoffman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Paul:
> Congratulations! Really nice site. Very clean lines and the one page
> checkout works! I do like your anonymous checkout. Easy to follow, concise
> and does the job.
>
> [FYI - I'm trying to come to grips with this on the MyOFBiz.com site. On
> my site - like yours - initially I didn't want anyone have to register to
> buy a product. So, if you checkout anonymously an account is automatically
> created for you when the order is created. AFTER the return from a
> successful PayPal payment, the PayPal email address is used to create the
> login id. The login id is the PayPal email address and I check to make sure
> that the buyer's PayPal address isn't already known to the system. If it
> is, then I don't create another login. The reason I did this is because I
> don't want users to have to create yet another login on my site.]
>
> Here's the problem - and it has nothing to do with OFBiz, but everything
> to do with the way I notify users of a successful/paid purchase: Every
> once-in-a-while a buyer has a "bad" PayPal email account address or the
> myofbiz.com domain is blacklisted on the buyer's side. So, the buyer
> doesn't get notification of account creation/activation. I'm now struggling
> with the best way to handle this as I don't want to force my buyers to
> create/login to an account prior to payment. But I might have to pretty
> soon here.You won't have this problem because you don't need to verify they
> paid.
>
> Sorry about stealing your thunder....but maybe you have some thoughts from
> a design perspective on how to handle this since you did such a nice job on
> your site?
>
> BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
> is really nice to see OFBiz consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to
> add - Thanks for doing this.
>
> I'm curious about Solr. I have not heard that thousands of products are a
> performance issue if you use OFBiz caching wisely. Have you found that was
> the case or did you implement Solr for other reasons?
>
> Finally, where are you getting the books - that you can give them away for
> free?
>
> Thanks
> Ruth Hoffman
> [hidden email]
>
>
> On 4/17/12 6:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>>
>>
>> we just released our demo store:<http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net
>> .
>> We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store
>> that
>> lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz,
>> of
>> course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce
>> component:
>>
>>
>>
>> · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
>> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>>
>> · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html& CSS
>>
>>
>> · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
>> device
>>
>> · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
>> one-time-shoppers
>>
>>
>>
>> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
>> let
>> me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Paul Piper
>>
>> Geschäftsführer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Web:<http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>>
>> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>>
>> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>>
>> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>>
>> eMail:<mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ilscipio GmbH
>>
>> Am Drosselschlag 7
>>
>> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>>
>> Germany
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Ashish Vijaywargiya

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Mike Z

+1, well said. :-)

--
Ashish

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Mike <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm always impressed when an OFBiz consulting firm actually uses OFBiz as
> their main website. This tells me that you really understand the software
> instead of throwing up a PHP-based Magento site. Well done.
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Paul Piper <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > we just released our demo store: <http://www.syracus.net>
> www.syracus.net
> > .
> > We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store
> > that
> > lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz,
> of
> > course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce
> > component:
> >
> >
> >
> > · Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
> > standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
> >
> > · Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html & CSS
> >
> > · Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
> > device
> >
> > · Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
> > one-time-shoppers
> >
> >
> >
> > Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
> > let
> > me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Paul Piper
> >
> > Geschäftsführer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Web: <http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
> >
> > Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
> >
> > Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
> >
> > Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
> >
> > eMail: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ilscipio GmbH
> >
> > Am Drosselschlag 7
> >
> > D-35452 Heuchelheim
> >
> > Germany
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Ruth Hoffman-2

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Paul Piper

Hi Paul:
Thanks for your detailed response. Please see below:

On 4/19/12 1:45 PM, madppiper wrote:
> Hi Ruth,
>
> thanks for the great feedback :)
>
> To answer your questions, I think you got a mixup in the paypal integration
> there. Without going over the details, I would recommend to implement paypal
> the following way:
This is pretty much how I do it. I didn't change any of this part of
OFBiz OOTB. Only thing I do differently is always make the buyer go
directly to PayPal anonymously (with a OFBiz loginId of "anonymous").
Then, when the IPN returns satisfactorily, I create the login account -
or not - if they already have a userLoginId. Creating the account isn't
the problem. It is the email notification that tells the user how to
access the account. If the email isn't sent because myofbiz.com is
blacklisted or if the PayPal email account id (an email address) is no
longer valid, the user never gets the email and thus never gets any info
about the order or how to login.

It gets really sticky when the buyer's PayPal email account Id is no
longer a valid/working email address. That is because I have no way to
contact the buyer - at all.

So, for the very few times (I think 3 times) this has happened, I'm not
sure it is worth making everyone create an account before the pay.

> * Create User (use his paypal-eMailaddress in your form, you can prefill
> paypal with this, btw)
> * Create Order (needed for paypal processing anyhow)
> * Forward user to paypal (do handshake and all that in the background,
> depending on the implementation i believe you have to create a session?!)
> * Deliver paypal with a return url, pickup orderId with it, complete order;
> handle paypal status
> * Use email-Address to provide customers with a way of accessing the site
> and to provide them with an order status.
>
> I don't think there is much of a workaround otherwise, since you will
> require to create an order, which requires a user to be set up. If you want,
> contact me directly, and we can discuss it there in detail. Paypal, however,
> only allows two ways of implementation: by iFrame, or by a full redirect, so
> it leaves you with a limited amount of choices...

Thanks for the offer. Wish you had made that about a year ago. I did
eventually figure all this out. Not without many hours of trial and
error and I even figured out how to use the PayPal sandbox to great
effect. Its a wonderful thing once you know how to use it.

> About the product caching: it is not entirely true. See, the problem with
> the original eCommerce App is completed without performance in mind. If i
> recall correctly: Take the category screens for instance, which really on
> the large product widgets. If you look more carefully, you will notice that
> the widgets include a multitude of groovy files and so does the category
> widget. The reason being, that it was designed by reusing some already
> available groovy script that takes care of the actual data (some were
> chained because one delivers some informaton that is needed by another). The
> problem is, that groovy scripts are not handled in a global manner, but you
> iterate over them every time, just for data preparation. So yes, with
> caching you can somewhat control the database queries, but the groovy
> scripts for actually accessing the data are going to be called either way.
> There are many obstacles like this and there was alot of room for
> improvement ...

Ah...I am aware of the limitations of Groovy scripting in the context of
the screen widgets. But I didn't realize it is such a drain on
performance. So, in your implementation, does Solr replace all the
Groovy scripts related to retrieving product info from the database? If
so, that is a wonderful thing.
> The books are going to be our own little secret, but you can be sure they
> are your perfectly legal to download - have fun :)
Will do! And thanks so much for taking the time to respond.
Cheers!
Ruth

> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Free-Audio-Books-powered-by-OFbiz-tp4564360p4571645.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

Ruth Hoffman-2

Re: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Mike Z

Hi Mike:
On 4/19/12 2:17 PM, Mike wrote:
>> BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
> is really nice to see OFBiz
>> consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to add - Thanks for doing this.
> OK: I'm not a consultant, however soon I may employ one. When I see a
> firm using OFBiz for their OWN corporate website, that tells me that they
> are willing to eat their own dogfood, and I'm impressed by that. It also
> tells me that they REALLY understand OFBiz's own CMS capabilities (I
> don't), which gives me confidence in the firm. Basically, show me that you
> can do.
Funny you should say "willing to eat their own dogfood". I had that very
line on the MyOFBiz.com site awhile back and someone pointed out to me
that it originated with Microsoft. Of course, after hearing that, I took
it off the site right then and there :-)

Seriously, I agree with you. I doubt that Microsoft uses PHP and MySQL
for any of their customer facing systems. Why would a consulting
company, specializing in OFBiz not use OFBiz?

For the longest time you would have been hard pressed to find an OFBiz
service provider using OFBiz to sell OFBiz based consulting services. I
really never understood how they thought this was a good marketing
strategy. Even today, this is the case.
> Also, it tells me what MY future business is capable of, because the last
> thing I want to do is support another CMS solution, with another technology
> (PHP), with another database, and another consultant.
>
> I think Paul's website (http://www.ilscipio.com) looks great and
> professional, just as good as any Magento based website. Impressive.
I do too. His team did a great job. A credit to the OFBiz community.
When people ask me about reference sites, I will be suggesting they look
at this site.

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Ruth Hoffman<[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul:
>> Congratulations! Really nice site. Very clean lines and the one page
>> checkout works! I do like your anonymous checkout. Easy to follow, concise
>> and does the job.
>>
>> [FYI - I'm trying to come to grips with this on the MyOFBiz.com site. On
>> my site - like yours - initially I didn't want anyone have to register to
>> buy a product. So, if you checkout anonymously an account is automatically
>> created for you when the order is created. AFTER the return from a
>> successful PayPal payment, the PayPal email address is used to create the
>> login id. The login id is the PayPal email address and I check to make sure
>> that the buyer's PayPal address isn't already known to the system. If it
>> is, then I don't create another login. The reason I did this is because I
>> don't want users to have to create yet another login on my site.]
>>
>> Here's the problem - and it has nothing to do with OFBiz, but everything
>> to do with the way I notify users of a successful/paid purchase: Every
>> once-in-a-while a buyer has a "bad" PayPal email account address or the
>> myofbiz.com domain is blacklisted on the buyer's side. So, the buyer
>> doesn't get notification of account creation/activation. I'm now struggling
>> with the best way to handle this as I don't want to force my buyers to
>> create/login to an account prior to payment. But I might have to pretty
>> soon here.You won't have this problem because you don't need to verify they
>> paid.
>>
>> Sorry about stealing your thunder....but maybe you have some thoughts from
>> a design perspective on how to handle this since you did such a nice job on
>> your site?
>>
>> BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
>> is really nice to see OFBiz consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to
>> add - Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> I'm curious about Solr. I have not heard that thousands of products are a
>> performance issue if you use OFBiz caching wisely. Have you found that was
>> the case or did you implement Solr for other reasons?
>>
>> Finally, where are you getting the books - that you can give them away for
>> free?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ruth Hoffman
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>
>> On 4/17/12 6:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> we just released our demo store:<http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net
>>> .
>>> We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store
>>> that
>>> lets you download audio booksâ€¦ for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz,
>>> of
>>> course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce
>>> component:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Â· Implementation of Apache Solr â€“ solr is implemented as a
>>> standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
>>>
>>> Â· Complete rewrite of all store pages â€“ cleaned up html& CSS
>>>
>>>
>>> Â· Responsive Design â€“ try looking at the store with your mobile
>>> device
>>>
>>> Â· Redesigned Checkout â€“ no registration necessary for
>>> one-time-shoppers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books,
>>> let
>>> me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Paul Piper
>>>
>>> GeschÃ¤ftsfÃ¼hrer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Web:<http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
>>>
>>> Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
>>>
>>> Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066
>>>
>>> Fax: (+49) 611-94589449
>>>
>>> eMail:<mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ilscipio GmbH
>>>
>>> Am Drosselschlag 7
>>>
>>> D-35452 Heuchelheim
>>>
>>> Germany
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

brajeshpatel

Re: AW: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

In reply to this post by Robert Gan

Hi Robert,

We have solr integration in Bigfish, You can download Big Fish eCommerce
from http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/BigFish-eCommerce-v0.2.zipand
get solr integration from there.

if any concern please let me know.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Robert G. <[hidden email]> wrote:

--
Thanks
Brajesh Patel
Salmonllc.com
http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfDemo.html

skype: brajesh.patel11
Cell:- +91 8750709907

brajeshpatel

Re: AW: Free Audio-Books powered by OFbiz

Corrected link as follows

http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/BigFish-eCommerce-v0.2.zip

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Brajesh Patel <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> We have solr integration in Bigfish, You can download Big Fish eCommerce
> from http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/BigFish-eCommerce-v0.2.zipand get solr integration from there.
>
> if any concern please let me know.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Robert G. <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> really nice, cause my ecommerce will has about 30.000 products and asking
>> all
>> the time myself it ofbiz will handle it with reasonable speed. So im
>> really
>> interessted in information about the solr integration :)
>>
>> you dont want to think about offering a kind of manual here about solr
>> integration? :):)
>>
>> I know it is always difficult for service companies, who sell this know
>> how
>> and work to their customer to offer these great milestones for free.
>>
>> maybe you can think one more time about it :)
>>
>> thanks for sharing your experience!
>>
>>
>> Solr integration
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Free-Audio-Books-powered-by-OFbiz-tp4564360p4570478.html
>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Brajesh Patel
> Salmonllc.com
> http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfDemo.html
>
> skype: brajesh.patel11
> Cell:- +91 8750709907
>
>
>

--
Thanks
Brajesh Patel
Salmonllc.com
http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfDemo.html

skype: brajesh.patel11
Cell:- +91 8750709907