Yes to both. catalog is basically tying product, catagories and searches together. so you can have multiple catalogs, with any or all products and categories already defined.
========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> Paul Abernathy sent the following on 4/30/2010 4:54 AM: > BJ, > > I also am new to ofbiz and am trying to learn how to use it. I couldn't > help noticing this discussion because I wanted to do the same thing - > set up a hierarchy of categories for products. I was just going through > the business setup guide located at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide > and towards the end it discusses how to set up categories. I have a > couple of questions: > > -Can a category be used in more than one Catalog? > -Can a category have more than one parent? It looks like the answer is > "no" but just making sure. > > thanks, > > Paul > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> are you sure you are not referring to 1 million products. >> I run in the real world over 100,000 products. >> I have approx 18 top categories with 3-10 levels of sub categories. >> if your see 1,000,000 categories that way then it is feasible. >> I use automated updating from my suppliers to keep thing up-to-date. >> these updates happen every 24 for prices new and obsolete products. >> availability is as often as 15 min. >> The average Cpu usage during these operations is about 15% of a 1.6ghz >> Cpu with enough RAM to not use the swap file. the peak cpu usage is >> about 75% when the scheduled services and large imports (1 gig data) are >> happening. >> >> >> ========================= >> BJ Freeman >> http://bjfreeman.elance.com >> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation >> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> >> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> >> >> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist >> >> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man >> Linkedin >> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> >> >> >> >> Michal Cukierman sent the following on 4/30/2010 1:51 AM: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Thank you for your quick response. Regarding your question about real >>> world >>> applications: >>> Ecommerce: >>> http://www.rockauto.com/ >>> http://allegro.pl/ >>> >>> There are applications that holds > 1 000 000 categories. >>> In a PLM industry it's also very common to have a couple of milions of >>> objects (consider the complexity of a train or a plain for example). >>> >>> The point of my post was not a fix, but the implementation of the >>> find root >>> category method. >>> I think that you should avoid such a code. You have got great >>> database layer >>> (great possibility to improve performance) so it would be great to >>> utilize >>> it as much as it's possible. >>> I really like Ofbiz application thats why I try to give you my input. >>> >>> Once again thank you for the response and for the link you send me. I >>> will >>> come back with the better solution after studing the datamodel. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Michał Cukierman >>> >>> >>> >>> W dniu 30 kwietnia 2010 10:11 użytkownik Jacques Le Roux < >>> [email protected]> napisał: >>> >>> >>>> For instanc >>>> >> >> >> > >
