Commerce Server General - Questions about Dynamic pricing support in Catalog Sets for many unique users.

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Questions about Dynamic pricing support in Catalog Sets for many unique users.

Gaylen Michael

2005-06-11, 5:49 pm

I am evaluating CS as a possible solution in a scenario where each user
login (organization) will have their own catalog set from several base /
virtual catalogs where the pricing changes on a frequent (at least weekly)
basis.

I'm figuring BizTalk or DTS will handle the catalog updates that are
triggered by the user just before they begin their shopping process in the
CS site solution.

Can CS handle the load of many users doing this simultaneously and how
quickly can the new catalog set make itself available for shopping once BTS
triggers the virtual catalog update?

Thanks,
Gaylen (gaylenSPAMARAMAmichael@hotmail.com)

Gaylen Michael

2005-06-15, 2:48 am

Thanks much for the response. Actually in this case there won't be a
catalog displayed at all for anonymous users since I am not in a typical
retail scenario but I do understand your logic below and appreciate it as
well.

However my question related more to scale I guess...if a user logs into the
site and their catalogs are imported and initialized directly before they
begin shopping, will the newly imported catalog (pricing) appear
immediately? Would this scale if thousands of users are doing it
simultaneously each with their own virtual and catalog sets? It's quite
possible there would be >=5 virtual catalogs each containing hundreds of
items specific to each user (organization), compounded by >= 5k users all
whom are updating their catalogs immediately before shopping as described
above.

Probably not worth the effort getting CS to fit this solution I'm guessing
eh?

Thx Again.

"Ravi Shankar" <shankycheil@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:2B5BBAAB-5D49-4F5E-B0DC-F3594B1C9F0B@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi,
>
> In CS there is a mechanism to associate a Catalog Set with a
> user/organizational profile. So what you could do is create different
> catalog
> sets comprising of virtual catalogs and associate appropriate sets with
> the
> organization/user.. Then in the site code on authentication you could
> perform
> the following check
>
> 1. Is User Authenticated ?
> 2. If No - Display Anonaymous Catalog Set
> 3. Otherwise check if user is part of organization
> 4. If yes then check if organization has catalog set specified
> 5. if yes then display that catalog set
> 6. otherwise check if user has catalog set specified
> 7. if yes then display the specified catalog set
> 8. if no then display "Registered User" Catalog set
> 9. if the organization does not have a catalog set specified
> 10. check if user has catalog set specified
> 11. if yes then display specified catalog set
> 12. if no then display "Registered User" catalog set
>
> This functionality was available in the "Retail" site... I'm not aware if
> it
> is available in the CS2k2 Starter Site.
>
>
> "Gaylen Michael" wrote:
>