Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-12 Thread shrenik . bhura
Thanks Ged for the gold medal. :) And welcome once again to the fun of being in this awesome community. The only 'history' that should matter regarding why that documentation is better than any other is that they have been at it dedicatedly, with a fixed purpose for a longer period than any

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again all, Thanks everyone who took the trouble to reply. It was all helpful, but the gold medal goes to Shrenik Bhurag. :) On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Shrenik Bhurag wrote: Herein I am sharing the link to documentation from Opentaps ...

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-11 Thread Shrenik Bhura
Hi Ged, Herein I am sharing the link to documentation from Opentaps which is essentially built atop OFBiz but mostly uses the catalog manager from OFBiz with very few, if any, changes -

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-10 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Quickly Inline... Le 08/03/2016 19:01, G.W. Haywood a écrit : I have a couple of businesses which might possibly benefit from OfBiz. To begin with I'm trying to get a demonstration eCommerce site running for one of them. The site is running, I've given it some personality, but as yet it has no

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-10 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi Ged, just a brief reponse regarding the data volume and performance: we have worked on projects with millions of unique products to be navigated, searched and filtered in OFBiz without any problems of that kind. The caching mechanisms in OFBiz are working very well. The database used was

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-10 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Ged As Pierre has already responded about the categories I wont add any more and I hope it has helped you understand the categories a bit more. (Thanks Pierre) You mention that you already have some existing product categories that dont map (but you can create you own in order to classify

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-10 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi Gerald, Please see my response inline. Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:01 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > >

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-10 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I will try to answer a bit as well, maybe today... Jacques Le 09/03/2016 19:50, Sharan-F a écrit : Hi Ged Welcome to the community and it's great that you'd like to contribute! I'm not an expert on catalog or products (so perhaps someone else may respond in the meantime) but I will try and

Re: Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-09 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Ged Welcome to the community and it's great that you'd like to contribute! I'm not an expert on catalog or products (so perhaps someone else may respond in the meantime) but I will try and put together response for you tomorrow on the points that I know a bit about. Thanks Sharan -- View

Adding products to a Catalog, and drowning in terminology.

2016-03-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, First post to this list. I'd like to contribute to the project. When I have things clear in my mind (if I ever get that far) I propose to write some user documentation. As you all know, it's badly needed. Background: I gained my first class honours engineering degree in 1976. I'm