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 products. I'm using OfBiz 13.07.02 and the Derby database at present but I plan to migrate to MySQL or PostgreSQL when I've got to grips with the basics.
I'd recommend PostgreSQL, but that's up to you of course
There are tens of thousands of products to import, a minimum of 40,000 up to a maximum of about 200,000 from over a thousand manufacturers if OfBiz will cope with it - that's one of the things I want to find out. On a 2.5GHz dual Opteron with 16GByte ECC RAM running over the local Ethernet I'm afraid it looks rather slow at the moment. Usually it will take several seconds to render a page and sometimes it will take of the order of ten seconds.
Do you have an SSD? It makes an huge difference for IOs (ratio 1/10 compared to a hard disk) and are now not that much expensive, even for large ones.
Questions: Please would someone explain to me in simple English what a Category is for, why I need to create four or more of them, what I need to do with them after I create them, and exactly how that should be done?
When I 1st was confronted with the same I was also dubious. I then (2005) created this http://www.les7arts.com/assist/OFBiz/Creation%20Catalogue%20de%20produits.htm#_bookmark_5276160 It explains what are those 4 (supposed "mandatory") categories and how to create them. But as you can see it's in French, you might try to translate with Google.
Anyway Pierre explained this well. I'd just recommend to have a look at the links below (credential: admin/ofbiz) https://demo-trunk-ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/FindCategory https://demo-trunk-ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProdCatalogCategories?prodCatalogId=DemoCatalog You might better understand how they are used OOTB, nothing better than an example. HTH Jacques
