Hi Ruth,

This is bordering on spam and starting to get annoying, would you mind trying 
to contribute to the discussion before starting in with the advertising?

Thanks
Scott

On 1/05/2010, at 12:31 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Hello List:
> If anyone is interested in a more in-depth treatment of the Catalog Manager, 
> products, catalogs and categories, please see my book: "Getting Started with 
> Apache OFBiz, The Catalog Manager". You may purchase a copy of this at: 
> http://www.myofbiz.com
> 
> Regards,
> Ruth
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz"
> [email protected]
> 
> Paul Abernathy wrote:
>> 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
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>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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,
>>>> Micha³ Cukierman
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> W dniu 30 kwietnia 2010 10:11 u¿ytkownik Jacques Le Roux <
>>>> [email protected]> napisa³:
>>>> 
>>>>   
>>>>> For instanc
>>>>>      
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  
>> 
>> 

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