[ic] makecat variables

[Nathan Barnett]

this is my first reply... and its to myself :)


I fixed my problem. I changed all my instances of __MVC_SCHOOL_NAME__
with __MVC_SCHOOLNAME__ omitting the _ in the middle. 

Here is the final config:

This is all in my skeleton directory.

1. catalog.cfg:
variable SCHOOL_NAME __MVC_SCHOOLNAME__

2. config/additional_fields: (this is optional I believe)
SCHOOLNAME
Client schools name
Random University (my default value)

3. config/additional_help: (also optional)
SCHOOLNAME
.
Enter the full name of the institution that this store will serve.

4. products/variable.txt:
SCHOOL_NAME     __MVC_SCHOOLNAME__     Directories and Paths



Please feel free to clarify the process if there is a better way to do
it.

enjoy!!



On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:10, Nathan Barnett wrote:
> This is my first post. 
> 
> I am having trouble understanding what needs to be done to configure
> custom variables for makecat to use for my skeleton catalog when
> creating a catalog.
> 
> I have in catalog.cfg inside my skeleton directory:
> 
> variable SCHOOL_NAME __MVC_SCHOOL_NAME_
> 
> In config/additional_fields i have:
> 
> SCHOOL_NAME
> Client schools name
> Random University
> 
> In additional_help i have:
> 
> SCHOOL_NAME
> .
> Enter the full name of the institution that this store will serve.
> 
> 
> All that seems to make sense to me. 
> Now I put in products/variable.txt :
> 
> SCHOOL_NAME     __MVC_SCHOOL_NAME__     Directories and Paths
> 
> I don't know if that syntax is correct because I couldn't find any docs
> on it, I used other entries in that file as examples.
> 
> I read the manual page for makecat and it tries to explain the process a
> little bit but I wasn't able to fully understand it. It says for me to
> run a pre-qualifying script that set the environment variable
> MVC_SCHOOL_NAME and then place in the catalog.cfg:
> Variable SCHOOL_NAME __MVC_SCHOOL_NAME__
> 
> Where do I put this script? How do I call it? Anyone have any examples
> of a script like this that I could use as reference?
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. If you know some docs that explain it
> well I would appreciate that too.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -nate-
> 
> 
> 
> 
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