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Summary to clear things up:

 

Realtionships:

 

Many Products = Many Distributors = Many Warehouses = Many Qty = Many Skus = Many Costs

Many Products = One Manufacturer Number

 

The Warehouses also will be scattered all over so address information might be nice to creat distance relationship with the customer.

 

I am asking too much? lol sorry if I am a big dreamer

 

I just wanted to say...

That's what I'm saying.

Right on! :thumbsup:

But I think it's too much to ask of Ryan since the contribution does what he needs and he doesn't need it to do what we need. It's not like it'll be more profitable for him if it does.

I have moved on from oscommerce to magento and no longer monitoring this site.

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I just wanted to say...

That's what I'm saying.

Right on! :thumbsup:

But I think it's too much to ask of Ryan since the contribution does what he needs and he doesn't need it to do what we need. It's not like it'll be more profitable for him  if it does.

 

 

Where there is a will, there is a way and where there is money is the intelligence to make it happen.

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Hi all, just a quick qestion.  can this contribution share one shopping cart? thanks

 

Yes, the way it works is that you have two installations of osc in two different folders on one domain or two separate domains as you like and they both refer to the same database. Of course you can do this without multi-stores if you want both stores to be identical. i.e. mirrors. What multistores does is allow you to configure each store to have different store differently, i.e. everthing in the store configuration can be different. And you can also choose which products appear in each store and which manufacturers.

 

The two things that are inseparable are customers and inventory. A customer of one store is a customer of all stores and when you sell an item in one store it depletes the common inventory for that item.

 

If anyone sees anything that could be added to clarify further; have at it.

I have moved on from oscommerce to magento and no longer monitoring this site.

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Where there is a will, there is a way and where there is money is the intelligence to make it happen.

 

Yes there are two choices,

1) Higher Intelligence

2) Hire Intelligence B)

Edited by Dhananjaya

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problems...

 

1. I copied the store files except the admin to a new folder called molly. I do not understand what I am suppose to do here:

 

For each copy you make you will need to correctly re-configure /includes/configure.php and includes/database_tables.php's TABLE_CONFIGURATION value (to the value specified in admin store creation)

 

 

2. In the store admin when trying to create an administrator after I am logged in as super_admin I get this error:

Error: Account not created. Must give access to an area and a store.

 

Can you help please?

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problems...

 

1. I copied the store files except the admin to a new folder called molly.  I do not understand what I am suppose to do here:

 

For each copy you make you will need to correctly re-configure /includes/configure.php and includes/database_tables.php's TABLE_CONFIGURATION value (to the value specified in admin store creation)

2. In the store admin when trying to create an administrator after I am logged in as super_admin I get this error:

Error: Account not created. Must give access to an area and a store.

 

Can you help please?

 

problem number one.....you have to edit the configure.php file

 

first several lines need to be pointed to right place for new store.....

 

in the below example the main store is in the top level public_html directory and the new multi-store store is in a directory called "osctest"...just substitute your directories and paths in the configure.php file:

 

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://ptah.us'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
 define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://ptah.us'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
 define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
 define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'ptah.us');
 define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'ptah.us');
 define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/osctest/');
 define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/osctest/');
 define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/osctest/');
 define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/osctest/');

 

and change one more line a little futhur down.....

 

 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/tahuti11/public_html/osctest/');

 

and i think you can leave the rest of that file unchanged?

 

for prob 2 create a store first?

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problems...

 

1. I copied the store files except the admin to a new folder called molly.? I do not understand what I am suppose to do here:

 

and includes/database_tables.php's TABLE_CONFIGURATION value (to the value specified in admin store creation)

 

 

oh and for the above part you need to edit the database_tables.php file changing the line:

define('TABLE_CONFIGURATION', 'configuration');

 

to:

 

define('TABLE_CONFIGURATION', 'thenameofyour2ndstoreconfigtablehere');

 

in install step 4 you "Create store by clicking on "Store" link on left hand side. Click "Insert". 'Store Name' & 'configuration table' are required fields."

 

whatever name you used for the 'configuration table' above for your new store must be put in in place of 'thenameofyour2ndstoreconfigtablehere'

 

later hope that all made sense.....

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Having problems with the Easy Populate....

 

Are there more instructions I'm missing....

 

Getting the error

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT/temp/EP2005May10-0202.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\files\web sites files\xxxxxxxxxxx.co.nz\admin\easypopulate_functions.php on line 32

 

I'm guessing it's because the //define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT' is commented out in the configure file....so how do we get around this apart from uncommenting it when it's needed?

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Having problems with the Easy Populate....

 

Are there more instructions I'm missing....

 

Getting the error

 

Warning: move_uploaded_file(DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT/temp/EP2005May10-0202.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\files\web sites files\xxxxxxxxxxx.co.nz\admin\easypopulate_functions.php on line 32

 

I'm guessing it's because the //define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT' is commented out in the configure file....so how do we get around this apart from uncommenting it when it's needed?

 

I had the same problem with the regular non-multi-stores version on a multistore site. And I get around it by un-commenting out that line when I use easypop. And alternative might be to hardcode the info into easy pop but I don't mind it the way it is.

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Thank you tahuti!

 

I'm a little farther along now.

 

Only one thing now is that none of the store images are showing up except the ones in the includes/languages/english/images/buttons folder:

http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/

 

I have a symbolic link going from molly/images to catalog/images on my server but still shows broken images.

 

If you could help me with this one I would appreciate it.

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I had the same problem with the regular non-multi-stores version on a multistore site. And I get around it by un-commenting out that line when I use easypop. And alternative might be to hardcode the info into easy pop but I don't mind it the way it is.

 

 

OK But I'm using the Easy Populate for the Multiple Stores....can't see why that hasn't been taking out, seeing as the line is commented out. I am still having problem if I uncomment that line, it doesn't include all the details about a product and doesn't show them all in the store. Have checked that the category and each product is associated with the store but it just shows the date added to the store but no other product info.?????

 

This is about my 5th attempt at getting it right now and I am about to give up

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Thank you tahuti!

 

I'm a little farther along now.

 

Only one thing now is that none of the store images are showing up except the ones in the includes/languages/english/images/buttons folder:

http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/

 

I have a symbolic link going from molly/images to catalog/images on my server but still shows broken images.

 

If you could help me with this one I would appreciate it.

 

well i dont know anything about symbolic links but i have seen hobbzilla reference to them in this thread somewhere so you might check that you are applying the symbolic links properly.......or maybe you could just define the 2 "Images Path" lines in step five of the install: "Administration->Configuration->Multi-Stores. (this information used to be in admin's configure.php)" ... define them to point to your main stores images directory....thats what i do and works fine i think if you dont need different looks for different stores.....

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Thanks!

 

I have this now:

 

Store Catalog Website URL http://www.designhosting.biz

Store Catalog Website SSL URL

Enable SSL Store Catalog false

Store Catalog Website Path /molly/

Store Catalog Filesystem Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/images/

Store Catalog Website Languages Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Languages Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/images/

Store Catalog Filesystem Modules Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/modules/

 

I tried this and didn't work:

 

Store Catalog Website URL http://www.designhosting.biz

Store Catalog Website SSL URL

Enable SSL Store Catalog false

Store Catalog Website Path /molly/

Store Catalog Filesystem Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/catalog/images/

Store Catalog Website Languages Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Languages Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/catalog/images/

Store Catalog Filesystem Modules Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/modules/

 

Should I just remove the symbolic link on the server and upload the images to the molly store?

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Found out my problem

 

If there is no image name included all the other details aren't uploaded?

 

Is this just normal? I have just slotted in a default.jpg until I have images for now.

 

Anyone sorted out the customers per store, ie they can't just log into any store only one they are assigned too?

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Thanks!

 

Should I just remove the symbolic link on the server and upload the images to the molly store?

that sounds like it would work but what i meant is that your lines:

 

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/images/ 
Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/images/

could read:

 

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/images/ 
Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/images/

if thats where your main store is......if that makes sense......just pointing your whole molly site to the main stores images rather than the molly images directory......

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Thanks!

 

I have this now:

 

Store Catalog Website URL http://www.designhosting.biz

Store Catalog Website SSL URL

Enable SSL Store Catalog false

Store Catalog Website Path /molly/

Store Catalog Filesystem Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/images/

Store Catalog Website Languages Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Languages Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/images/

Store Catalog Filesystem Modules Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/modules/

 

I tried this and didn't work:

 

Store Catalog Website URL http://www.designhosting.biz

Store Catalog Website SSL URL

Enable SSL Store Catalog false

Store Catalog Website Path /molly/

Store Catalog Filesystem Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/

Store Catalog Website Images Path http://www.designhosting.biz/catalog/images/

Store Catalog Website Languages Path http://www.designhosting.biz/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Languages Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/languages/

Store Catalog Filesystem Images Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/catalog/images/

Store Catalog Filesystem Modules Path /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs/molly/includes/modules/

 

Should I just remove the symbolic link on the server and upload the images to the molly store?

 

Are your image problems in just the admin or in the catalogs?

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Melinda,

 

It appears that your symbolic link has not been setup properly. I went to the site and it was giving me permissions problems. You can alternatively put the images in the molly folder and double check that they work and then work on some sybolic links to try and troubleshoot that portion of the site. I personally don't use sybolic links on the images directory but the images/dvd & images/microsoft because each store has it's own unique look that has images stored in /images/ so my symoblic links are folders within images.. but this shouldn't matter.

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OK But I'm using the Easy Populate for the Multiple Stores....can't see why that hasn't been taking out, seeing as the line is commented out. I am still having problem if I uncomment that line, it doesn't include all the details about a product and doesn't show them all in the store. Have checked that the category and each product is associated with the store but it just shows the date added to the store but no other product info.?????

 

This is about my 5th attempt at getting it right now and I am about to give up

 

You did grab the full package and then replace just the easy_populate file with the multi-stores enabled one, yes?? My addition was NOT the complete Easy Populate contribution that is needed.. there are some additional files required.

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I would like in my mutlishop changes for B2B/B2C am already somewhat inserted for it or must I still something insert? Which contriebs their to me would recommend for B2B/B2C? Which I would like to still insert: BTS, Infobox Admin

 

I am from germany my english is bad :blush:

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You did grab the full package and then replace just the easy_populate file with the multi-stores enabled one, yes?? My addition was NOT the complete Easy Populate contribution that is needed.. there are some additional files required.

 

 

Yep sure did still won't work if that line is commented out in the config file....

hmmm I musta broked it.... :blush:

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I have three stores set up.. and I got the logo to show up in one store but not the other store

I try to add it through admin and I get

Error Error: Destination does not exist.

 

and I udated the configuration file..

and the database files..

 

and just don't know what else..

 

I check the storeid in contifuration.. is there somewhere I am not looking.

thank you

naomi

 

ellemercantile.com

the store I am working on is

books4u2.com

thank you

naomi

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