1. The Foundation Store
The Foundation store is distributed with Interchange to give you a starting point with which to build your e-business. While the Foundation store is designed to be relatively easy to start with, it is still a full-featured demonstration of a number of Interchange capabilities. Once you understand the Foundation store and how it works you are well on your way to understanding the Interchange software.
The following is a list of some popular features:
Category Searches
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Regardless of the number of products in a catalog, categorizing them makes them easier to find. Pick a field in the database, typically named category, and classify the products for search using Interchange.
Images
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You can display a thumbnail image for the items that have images. To do this, add an image field in the database. (See the 'image' field of the products database.)
Related Items
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You can embed searches of similar products on an individual product display page with the [query ...] or [loop ...] tags. Or, if customer data is developed, search a past order database and display products that would be of interest to that customer.
Reviews/Testimonials
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You can key the placement of a review or testimonial on the existence of a file being in a certain directory. This is reasonable to do when a user is viewing a single product.