[ic] Maintaining Session

Kyle Cook interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Oct 19 02:42:01 2001


At 09:25 AM 10/19/01, you wrote:
>Hi,
>     Can someone plz clearly state me about the two database files namely
>  transactions and Orderline. As far as the document specifies it says that
>  each and every item of an order are
>  stored in the orderline table whereas a summary of the order is stored in
>  the transactions table.
>
>  I.e., There lies a one to many relation between the transactions and
>  orderline wherein every parent
>  record in the transaction table there is one or many child records
>available
>  in the orderline table.
>
>  I guess iam clear in my understanding. If not pls correct me.
>
>  Well, my question is, if this is  the case then how multiple shipping
>  locations are taken care.
>  Coz the current structure of the orderline table doesn't seem to have
>  sufficient columns for the same. Moreover the demo avl (foundation catalog)
>seem to accept ship
>  address for each and every item purchased, but at checkout it still asks
>for a shipping
>  address.
>
>  Can someone plz do correct me if iam misunderstood ??
>  Thnx in advance.
>  Balaji

It's been a while since I've had the chance to use the actual database 
structure
as is, constantly doing custom db schemes.

I know that at one time , multiple ship to addresses were saved in userdb for
logged in users.

Hope this helps.
Kyle