How to get a handle on the e-commerce engine?

[Patrick-4]

I've gone through all the tutorials.  What do you think I should do to
get a handle on the e-commerce customization?
Also is there an interface to look at the SQL tables, something like
phpMyAdmin?   Thanks Patrick

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

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.

As for a SQL interface, try the Webtool Entity Reference - Interactive
Version. There is also some information floating around about how to use
Eclipse and another 3rd party tool (can't remember the name) to view the
Derby database. Personally, I find the Webtools reference is really useful.

Regards,
Ruth
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Patrick wrote:
> I've gone through all the tutorials.  What do you think I should do to
> get a handle on the e-commerce customization?
> Also is there an interface to look at the SQL tables, something like
> phpMyAdmin?   Thanks Patrick
>
>  

[hans_bakker]

look at the entity reference in webtools...it includes a entity content
browser and works on any database. When i saw this i completely switched
to using OFBiz 5 years ago

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:39 -0600, Patrick wrote:
> I've gone through all the tutorials.  What do you think I should do to
> get a handle on the e-commerce customization?
> Also is there an interface to look at the SQL tables, something like
> phpMyAdmin?   Thanks Patrick
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[Matt Warnock]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:39 -0600, Patrick wrote:
> I've gone through all the tutorials.  What do you think I should do to
> get a handle on the e-commerce customization?
> Also is there an interface to look at the SQL tables, something like
> phpMyAdmin?   Thanks Patrick

If you set up the entity engine to use MySQL for the backend, you *can*
use phpMyAdmin.  One of the nice things about DB-agnosticism.

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Matt Warnock <[hidden email]>
RidgeCrest Herbals, Inc.

[Ylan Segal]

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,

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Ylan Segal

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

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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Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz"
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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,
>
>