[ic] question about cross-selling between catalogs

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:25:47PM -0400, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Dennis Chen (dchen@technicacorp.com):
> > :)  I did search for Mall previously but was abit confusing for me to
> > follow...too many ideas.  But guess I have to start off fresh and try it
> > again.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'd try a mailing list search with the keyword: Mall
> > > 
> > > Though personally I'd look at why I was using 4 catalogs. 
> > > Different vendors?
> > > 
> > 
> > Some catalogs will have different vendors, but probably most will be
> > the same, but with different pricing due to different contracts but
> > need to support cross-selling between catalogs. so basically 1
> > contract/catalog. Hmm...wonder if I have extra fields for prices and
> > key off some value to see which contract customer is buying
> > from....hmm....think I got something to work off on. but then....need
> > to exclude search results for other products not in the catalog...then
> > the menu list has to change too..sigh.....too many things to keep
> > track of. I'll probably break it eventually so having different
> > catalogs would be better.
> > 

I can't 100% tell what you mean.  Does the 1 contract/catalog
mean you can generate a complete product database for any given
catalog in advance?  If so you might be able to use one source
database and write a few perl DBI scripts to generate the
"derivative" catalog databases from it.  I'd assume your menus get
built from the databases dynamically.


> 
> Look into SubCatalog. But unless you are pretty good at this stuff,
> you may need to get a competent consultant involved.
> 
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