Hi All,I've been given the problem of integrating a new supplier into an existing IC5 store, but they (the supplier) have laid down some rather strict (and odd) ground rules which include:
1) We are not allowed to display the price of their products anywhere in the store apart from the basket and checkout. So in order to see how much something is then a customer must add the item to their basket.
2) We are not allowed to display their products next to products from other manufacturers.
I've tried telling them (and the store owners) that they are crazy, but the supplier is sticking to their line and won't budge an inch. They haven't been able to do this in the US for various reasons (I supect legal ones), so this is for EU markets only.
The problem is that this supplier is _very_ prestigious and it's considered worthwhile to jump through any number of hoops just to be able to sell their stuff.
My current plan is this:1) Create a "sub shop" dedicated to their products - http://domain.com/supplier/
2) Create a separate table for holding their products.3) Limit _all_ searches in the rest of the store (IC and SQL) to using the main products table only. I'm using action maps for a lot of IC searches at the moment so I'm hoping this should be fairly easy.
4) Limit searches in the sub shop to using the new product table.5) Make components intelligent enough to know which bit of the store they are being displayed in and use the correct products table.
Can anyone shoot any holes in this plan or suggest a better approach? -- Jamie Neil | <suppressed> | 0870 7777 454 Versado I.T. Services Ltd. | http://versado.net/ | 0845 450 1254 _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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