RE: [MV set-up] Moving Orders from Minivend to "Prism"

[".cory.trese." <digital@arcane.specialty-books.com>]

On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, you wrote:
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>I'd write a perl script to parse the backend.asc file and run it occasionaly
>on a cron job.

Hmmm.  I hadn't thought of that.  Do you think that would have advantages over
replacing the SendmailProgram variable within the catalogs that need to access
prism method?

I still may have catalogs that do not need to access prism, but instead the
orders need to be sent (throught e-mail) to customers.  If this is the case,
I'd much rather have a replacement for sendmail setup to do the parsing. 
Currently, all our catalogs (60+) log to the same backend.asc file for easier
order tracking and the work associated with seperating the catalogs and moving
the backend links, etc doesn't seem like the most efficient way to do it. 
Perhaps I'm missing the beauty of your plan, or perhaps I'm not seeing a
gapping hole in what I'm tenativly going to do.  Am I???


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>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 8:31 AM
>To: minivend-users@minivend.com
>Subject: [MV set-up] Moving Orders from Minivend to "Prism"
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>******    message to minivend-users from ".cory.trese."
><digital@arcane.specialty-books.com>     ******
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>List :
>
>Prism == a inventory control system / mail order / shipping system.
>
>I need to begin moving all my orders from Minivend into this "Prism" system
>instead of mailing them.
>
>I'd also really like to continue mailing the encrypted credit card
>information
>(along with the order number) a mail address.
>
>Prism has a "web store front" but I think if we started using it, we'd loose
>all our customers because it's terrible...but I digress.
>
>I figured out the format Prism uses to move orders between it's web server
>and
>it's primary component.  it's a fairly simple flat text format (CVS, comma
>and
>"" delimited) file.  What I need to be able to do is make minivend create
>one
>of those files and then place it on the disk somewhere (on the drive our web
>server and the prism server share) so that prism can parse it into the
>system.
>
>I know this isn't really a minivend problem, but I'd appreciate any help.
>So
>far I've thought of replacing the sendmail program with a perl script that
>checked the order format (which would be created by the format of the
>report),
>stripped out the CC information and mailed it off, and then created a file,
>dumped the order into and appended it to the order file that Prism wants.
>
>That's just my first idea, so if anyone has a quicker/ different way to do
>it,
>please let me know.
>
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