[ic] Interchange & eProcurement Via cXML/Punchout?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Dan Browning wrote:
> At 09:22 AM 8/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >        One of our major customers is asking us to integrate our
> >Interchange web site with their eProcurement system using cXML.
> >At this point they just want to automatically login and then receive
> >an cXML document when the user checks out.  Can anyone point
> >me in the right direction on how to approach this?  I'm on the
> >newest version of Apache & Interchange.  Thanks!
> 
> Sounds like a fun project!
> 
> The easy part:
> 
>  * Create a new route (can use "log" as example)
>  * Create a route report file (can use etc/log_transaction as example)
>  * Add the route (e.g. "cascade log send_cXML main copy_user" )
> 
> The hard part:
> 
>  * Generate the cXML file.
>  * Perhaps using one of the 10-bajillion XML Perl modules
> 
> I wouldn't worry about the easy part until you can generate the cXML from a 
> standard interchange page ( using [item-list], [subtotal], etc. ).

You might find it easier to generate that with an external script
from your database after the order is placed.  Simply trigger that 
script from ic.



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