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RE: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange
****** message to minivend-users from "Mediaservices" <support@mediaservices.net> ******
Regarding the "plug-in" concept, we have gone to great lengths to assure
that the entire Interchange user interface allows for developers to add
functions or buttons seamlessly. It would have been prettier if we had used
graphical buttons in the quicklinks menu, but we chose to use text to make
it easy to add new links. As for fully documenting how to modify the UI...
well, that will come later.
Thank you David :)
As a developer, I hate "graphic intense" UI's. I need to get where I am
going fast.
I do Like the Interchange buttons that give you recent orders and such, but
at the
same time would like that functionality in text links. If a client of mine
wants a
fancy GUI I would make that for them, but for the base admin user, it is not
needed.
Also, I see references to an affiliate program functions. Do you have
expanded information on the features of that? I just installed an affiliate
system on my store (used another program) and now I wonder if I should have
waited for yours?
Overall, Interchange looks and feels great. Minivend is awesome. Together
they will be incredible :)
Thank You
Russ Smith
Mediaservices Network
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
[mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of David Adams
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 9:19 AM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange
****** message to minivend-users from David Adams <david@akopia.com>
******
I will definitely take this advice to heart as we are planning the further
development of interchange. You are one of several Minivend users who has
expressed a desire to keep a minimal user interface available, which allows
direct manipulation of the data. We think that's a good idea. We're going
to have several demos, and a basic one like you describe will certainly be
one of them.
Regarding the "plug-in" concept, we have gone to great lengths to assure
that the entire Interchange user interface allows for developers to add
functions or buttons seamlessly. It would have been prettier if we had used
graphical buttons in the quicklinks menu, but we chose to use text to make
it easy to add new links. As for fully documenting how to modify the UI...
well, that will come later.
David Adams
www.akopia.com
703-456-2924 Office
> From: "Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>
> Reply-To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:26:12 -0700
> To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
> Subject: RE: [mv] Preview of Akopia Interchange
> Resent-From: mike@bill.minivend.com
> Resent-To: tech@akopia.com
> Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:01:56 -0400
>
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson"
> <ct@arborinternet.com> ******
>
> I think the dual nature of Minivend was well served with a basic catalog
> template and a full featured catalog template. And I think the new UI is
> just what the full featured catalog has been needing. Here is my proposal
> for continuing with a dual mode path:
>
>
> The Basic Catalog is a bare bones template with the following features:
>
> - Basic database tables/fields. For example the Products database would
> only have code, category, title, description, price, weight. Minimal
> fields in UserDB to support sign-in and simple order processing. Minimal
> fields in Transactions to support simple order processing.
>
> - Basic pages. No frames. Home page, results page, flypage, basket,
> feedback, checkout, report/receipt, plus special pages. Just enough to
> show the basic features in a unformated presentation.
>
> - Basic features. The standard shipping, pricing, tax tables available,
> but set to default values or left empty.
>
> - User interface. I may get some disagreement from some, but a minimal
> user interface, a la Minimate, would be a good inclusion. In looking at
> the Interchange interface, I think that basic versions of the Order
> viewer, Data Table browser, Page editor would be good inclusions. Also the
> basic daemon restart/status like in Minimate would make sense. This user
> interface would simply be a subset of the full UI feature set. Perhaps it
> could be broken into lib/UI/uicore.cfg and lib/UI/uifull.cfg.
>
>
> The Interchange Catalog would have a defined minimum database table layout
> and would include additional config and lib files to add functionality.
>
> - All database tables/fields needed to support advanced Interchange
> features.
>
> - All pages needed to support advanced Interchange features.
>
> - Complete Interchange user interface. One thing I liked in the preview is
> the Control Panel like interface with all of the interface features
> listed. It would be great if this had a _plug-in_ type interface. I think
> where ever possible, enable _plug-in_ type interfaces to allow the
> community to extend the feature set. Minivend did not fully lend itself to
> extensions. I have created a number of specific UI pages that others might
> use, but they would be difficult to implement because of the lack of a
> standard interface.
>
>
> I would use both the Basic and full Interchange catalogs in different
> situations. I also think implementing some _plug-in_ interfaces (e.g. for
> UI or UserTags) would allow a grateful community to contrubute more than
> just bug fixes to Interchange.
>
>
>
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