> Just installed freetrade 1.0.3, and for the most part everything seems
> to be working fine. Couple questions off hand:
>
> 1) I've been led to believe that someone on this list has used freetrade
> to set up a (music) record store. Could anyone provide me with a way to
> contact this person?
I know Derek from CDBaby.com was planning on using parts of FreeTrade. If
you aren't looking for complicated functionality, FreeTrade will do a music
store with no modifications.
> 2) Before I start hacking away, could anyone suggest a straightforward
> method to determine the ID of the "base" department, given a
> sub-department one or more levels down the tree? (That is, the highest
> level parent of a sub-department, one down from "root".)
Each department has a parent. You can walk the tree up until you get to
a department with parent equal to zero. You shouldn't make a query for
each step, though. Grab the whole table and traverse the tree in memory.
> 3) Does anyone else find the SKU implementation somewhat odd? In
> particular, I'm concerned about the idea of presenting customers with a
> list of *SKUs* to choose from as opposed to a list of *Items*.
The idea of "Items" and "SKUs" was greatly inspired by work on the
Restoration
Hardware site. All SKUs are kept at a single location, so we've been
ignoring
that part of what a SKU is. I suspect the Web site is not the proper place
to be making decisions about which fulfillment location to direct orders to.
You probably want a separate system handling that task.
So, what I'm saying is, you'd never have a list of SKUs in a FreeTrade
system
that differ solely by the warehouse they're in. You may have SKUs that
differ
by the shirt size or color of fabric. That's a choice you do want the
customer
to make.
Leon
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