thanks Arun for the warm reply. I am new to Ofbiz, Please forgive me for asking naive questions. Please see my comments inline.
On 19 December 2017 at 22:09, Arun Patidar <arun.pati...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Hello Fred, > > Please see my comments inline: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Wang, Fred LDB:EX <fred.w...@bcldb.com> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Our company has chosen Ofbiz as our ecommerce/erp platform. We are having > > difficulties to understand and configure the multi-tenancy. > > > > Our plan is as below, it's kind of like Amazon/eBay model. > > > > 1. Each tenant will have their own front store, say tenant A will have a > > front store a.example.com; document says it's supported out of box, but > I > > cannot find any doc that describes how to setup. > > > > > Refer below links regarding multi-tenant setup: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/Rwzi > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/9oT0Ag > > Fred: Before this email, I have followed the docs and get tenant t1 > running on back end before this email. The master front store is working, > but I still cannot get t1 front store running. I have only one instance > running. I tried to manipulate the Https Host and Https Port in t1's > webstore. Say, master has master.ness.com:8443 and t1 has > t1.ness.com8443. I also edited the hosts file accordingly. The dns names > are working, however t1.ness.com is always pointing to the master site. > not sure where went wrong. > > > > > 2. The master front store is the overall front store, say example.com, > > which can display products from any tenants. Users have to go through > > master store to get to tenant stores. They will be redirected to master > > store if they go to tenant store directly. This may not be out of box, > can > > someone shed a light how big the change is? > > > > This looks multi stores scenario instead of multi tenant. You can achive it > by creating multiple stores in single DB and check the products of any > store. If Company parties are different for each store then you can go for > Multi store-multi company scenario. > > In multi tenant, system can connect with single tenant at a time. So multi > tenancy does not fit in this use case. > > Fred: that's what I thought. Our business requires multi tenant instead > of multi stores in single DB. Looks like we have to customize here. > > > > 3. Tenant stores can be embedded in overall store. One can image the > > upper part of the home page shows the promotions from some tenant stores, > > the lower part shows the entry point of specific tenant stores. I think > if > > 2 can be done, this one will be relatively simple. > > > > Same as #2 > > > > > > 4. Sales order can include products from different tenant. Here comes > > order split and aggregation, I don't think it's out of box. > > > > Same as #2 > > > > > > 5. The sales orders are fulfilled by tenants, but the money has to be > > received by master first, then transferred to tenant after fee. Again, I > do > > think it's out of box. > > > > You can set master party as a 'BILL_FROM_VENDOR' party on Order and set > other party in any different role to calculate transfer amount after fee. > You can refer Commission Run feature of OOTB for calculating transfer > amount. > > Fred: is this for multi store in single DB or multi tenant? what is the > actual party id in demo store? > > > > As many have reported, the documentation is short, outdated and > > duplicated. It's pretty hard to follow documents to do the setup and > > development. > > > > It's greatly appreciated if anyone can recommend some training courses, > > video or consulting service. > > > > > Please let me know if you have any concern. > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards > --- > Arun Patidar > Manager, Enterprise Software Development > > www.hotwaxsystems.comwww.hotwax.co > > > > > > > > > Fred Wang > > >
