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Thread began 4/05/2010 9:11 am by lrawlins367093 | Last modified 4/06/2010 8:53 am by mick106153 | 893 views | 3 replies |

lrawlins367093

Products / Categories / Product Categories

I keep trying to make sense of the relationship between products, categories and product categories and am not doing very well.

I have my products and categories figured out but the ps3_productcategory table has me stumped.

Is it too much to ask for definitions of the fields in the various tables? How is it that those who have paid their hard earned money are left to decipher the structure of the database by trial and mostly error.

Does a sample database with a few records in each table seem like such a hard thing for you to provide. It would surely save your customers a lot of stumbling around in their attempt to make the product work.

I haven't found anything in PS3's documentation to even hint at managing the database other than entering one item at a time. For those of us who will have thousands of products one-by-one entry is not an option.

How about meaningful information this time?

Thanks

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Eric Mittman

The product category table is a linking table, it has a unique id for each entry and stores the product id and the corresponding category id. This table provides the information about what products belong to what categories.

The PowerStore is designed to be an 'out of box' solution that works already. The db structure was engineered the way that you see it to fit the needs and requirements of the PowerStore Solution Pack. The mass importation of products and their corresponding data into the PowerStore db is not a supported feature so you will not find any documentation about it. The items in the store are meant to be added through the stores admin area.

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lrawlins367093

OK, so for anyone who intends to have a lot of items for sale PowerStore IS NOT the solution.

Why couldn't you state that in the documentation? It would have save me a lot of time and frustration.

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mick106153

There are threads here from people who have done what you are trying to do.
Keep looking, you'll find them.

Mick

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