Enable a Cross-Store Product Directory

When you have your database, "category chooser" and "information harvester" applications in place, you can enable the cross-store product directory feature in ShopSite to test your tools and to let merchants start using them.

1. Open the global.aa file with a text editor.
2. On a new line, add an taxonomy_enabled: token and set the value to yes, like this:

taxonomy_enabled: yes

3. On a new line, add a taxonomy_chooser_url: token, followed by the URL of your "category chooser" application, like this:

   taxonomy_chooser_url: http://myhost/cgi-bin/chooser.cgi

4. On a new line, add a notificationURL: token, followed by the URL of your "information harvester" application, like this:

   notificationURL: http://myhost/cgi-bin/harvester.cgi

5. Optinally, on a new line, add a notificationTimeOut: token, followed by the number of times ShopSite should attempt to receive a message from the "information harvester" application, like this:

   notificationTimeOut: 4

   The default value is 10.

6. Optionally, on a new line, add a mall_mail: token, followed by the e-mail address for receiving status and error messages, like this:

   mall_mail: taxonomy_status@mystore.com

   ShopSite will send a message each time any merchant in the mall publishes a store, so this token may generate numerous messages. You may want to add this token during initial setup and testing of your taxonomy application, but then you may want to remove it once everything is running smoothly.

7. Save and close the file.

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