comments inline... my au wrote: > Thanks again for your time. > > > If I am correctly understanding from Ray's comment, it is possible to setup 2 > catalogs for say > Cookies.com > dvds.com > > and sell cookies through one site dvds through the another one. Where > cookies.com customers can may buy dvds from dvds.com without registering > again with dvds.com. Yes, you might not choose to do with those examples but you can if you want :-) > > It is possible for a single admin to be able to see and manage the catalog, > sales, customer information for both the cookies.com and dvds.com from one > admin account. Yes > > If I am correctly understanding Jacques's and Ray's comment, it is NOT > possible to have 2 seperate admin accounts (authorization) one for each > cookies.com and dvds.com with 1 instance of OFBiz. Correct. Again as BJ mentioned the catalog manager application does provide some control level against admin logins so you can restrict access to a degree but the rest of the order, accounts, stock etc are not separated. > > 1. Am I right in my understanding Ray'sand Jacques's comment ? > > My other questions: > 2. If there are door-to-door (affiliates) sales people for cookies.com, > dvds.com, Is it possible to manage thier accounts online like seeing their > sales, payment etc without seeing other affiliate's info ? Don't think there are any existing screens and reports for this but I believe the basic structure is available in the system to allow set up and tracking of affiliates, but it's not an area I've touched on.
Ray > > > Thank you > > --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: multiple hot-deployment web site applications > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 6:40 AM > > I agree with Ray and BJ, > > On point 3, I guess the answer is no. You will have to set separate instances > as Ray as well explained. > > Jacques > > From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> In terms of mall type stores I understand that generally to mean >> unrelated stores (ecommerce sites) running from one instance of OFBiz. >> So customers from mall A.com won't see products from mall B.com and >> importantly backend access will keep the orders and everything else >> separate as well. So to be clear OFBiz is not suited OOTB to host >> multiple separate malls from one instance. But it is relatively easy to >> host another domain/site from one instance of OFBiz that may target a >> slightly different market leveraging the same or similar products under >> a different brand, the reasoning's for this will be left to the >> marketing discussions but it's possible OOTB with OFBiz. >> >> So what is the association between AppOne.com and AppTwo.com? Are they >> separate companies? Just different branding same company? Do you want >> one backend database for both the domains? Do you allow someone >> registering on AppOne.com to access AppTwo.com? >> >> 1: Different catalogs can be used to publish different products with >> their own look and feel for the domains. Depends how much you want to >> customise as to whether you need 0, 1 or 2 hot deploy applications. >> >> 2: I think BJ was pointing you to ajp for this, which is a perfectly >> good suggestion. If you're not fronting with Apache or anything else > I'm >> sure you can still do it with Tomcat but you'll have to dig a little >> deeper in to the OFBiz/Tomcat container to check that. >> >> 3: Not sure who "their" refers to? >> >> Ray >> >> my au wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am planning to write 2 web site applications (Domain names) selling > 2 different services. >>> I would like them to be hosted and deployed through one OFBiz > instance/hot-deploy directory. >>> Eg: >>> www.AppOne.com >>> www.AppTwo.com >>> >>> My question is: >>> >>> 1. Is this setup is possible ? >>> >>> 2. Is it possible for 2 host names to have 2 different IPs ? >>> >>> 3. Is it possible to manage their catalog/security in one instance of > OFBiz? >>> 4. I did see the multiple stores are supported by OFBiz but not the > mall type stores. Could some one explain what is the >>> difference between multiple stores and a mall type stores? >>> >>> Thank you >>> Ram >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > >
