multiple merchants upload their own products -- extend catalog manager?

[Patrick-4]

I see that I can upload products and catalogs via the catalog manager.
 If I want multiple merchants to upload their own products, vaguely
analogous to ebay, is it correct to say that I need to extend the
catalog manager? or is that functionality already available?  Thanks,
Patrick

[Ashish Vijaywargiya]

This is very simple requirement and can be implemented in OFBiz easily.
If you want to give access of uploading products to eBay to your
merchant then their records (aka Party OOTB) must be present in the
system. And then you can assign them certain permissions using
partymgr component. If you assign permissions to manage all the
operations in CatalogMgr to your merchants then your merchant can
upload their product in OFBiz and then you can refer OOTB Ebay
component, with the help of that component your each merchant can
upload their product to Ebay.

In short: I would recommend you to play with Partymgr & Catalog
components in the back office application and see how the roles are
assigned to different parties. And then dig into Ebay component.
Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 can be your best friend in the
initial phase of exploration.
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/FoB2

Thanks!

--
Ashish

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Patrick
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> I see that I can upload products and catalogs via the catalog manager.
>  If I want multiple merchants to upload their own products, vaguely
> analogous to ebay, is it correct to say that I need to extend the
> catalog manager? or is that functionality already available?  Thanks,
> Patrick
>

[Patrick-4]

Thanks Ashish,
I think I didn't ask my question quite specifically enough, so have 2
more questions.

1) Can I set up the party manager in such a way that multiple users
can upload their own products to their own catalogs using parties and
roles?

2) I set up the role of a party as "Manufacturer" so, does that mean
there is a manufacturer portal page that features actions a
"Manufacturer" can perform?

Thanks a lot.
Patrick

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> This is very simple requirement and can be implemented in OFBiz easily.
> If you want to give access of uploading products to eBay to your
> merchant then their records (aka Party OOTB) must be present in the
> system. And then you can assign them certain permissions using
> partymgr component. If you assign permissions to manage all the
> operations in CatalogMgr to your merchants then your merchant can
> upload their product in OFBiz and then you can refer OOTB Ebay
> component, with the help of that component your each merchant can
> upload their product to Ebay.
>
> In short: I would recommend you to play with Partymgr & Catalog
> components in the back office application and see how the roles are
> assigned to different parties. And then dig into Ebay component.
> Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 can be your best friend in the
> initial phase of exploration.
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/FoB2
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Ashish
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Patrick
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I see that I can upload products and catalogs via the catalog manager.
>>  If I want multiple merchants to upload their own products, vaguely
>> analogous to ebay, is it correct to say that I need to extend the
>> catalog manager? or is that functionality already available?  Thanks,
>> Patrick
>>
>