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Subject: RE: [ubl-dev] looking for practical examples
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Alex, Having looked at the Ubercart (and Drupal) web sites, it appears that
Ubercart is primarily a web sales system, with no existing APIs that explicitly
support standardized eBusiness transaction imports and exports. Ubercart APIs are listed at http://www.ubercart.org/docs/api
The Ubercart APIs could be used as targets for an import process that disaggregates
and as needed translates macro-level transactions (e.g., a UBL order) into the
corresponding Ubercart APIs (e.g., hook_order, hook_line_item, hook_payment_method,
hook_shipping_method, UC_order-load). Outbound transactions are also possible. The invoicing Ubercart APIs
and supporting APIs could be sources to assemble and generate UBL invoices. I did not see APIs for importing catalog data, which perhaps is done
through Drupal content management, but the same principles apply. The list of Ubercart APIs included several having to
do with stock, mostly having to do with adjusting quantity on hand or master
data such as weight. It does not appear that Ubercart (or Drupal) are inventory
management systems - e.g., with re-order points, generating replenishment
orders to suppliers, paying suppliers, etc. Typically, an application like Ubercart would be fronted by a
translator that handles UBL (and other) standard transaction sets. Someone
would still have to map the translator output to the Ubercart APIs and, in
effect, create high-level APIs, but the same mapping would support multiple
eBusiness standards. Colts
Neck Solutions LLC -----Original Message----- Hello, I joined this list as I'm thinking of using UBL 2.0 to do importing/exporting interface to the popular ecommerce software Ubercart (www.ubercart.org) and was hoping to find some examples of how to use UBL for a catalog import (to begin with). UBL does seem to be huge and a little scary to be frank. i need the basics for doing stock tracking updates and perhaps fill in a product catalog (with products [ item?] having 2 attributes such as 'size' and 'colour'). Is this possible? Any advise would be helpful. yours Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ubl-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: ubl-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org |
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