| Ravi Shankar 2005-06-16, 5:50 pm |
| Hi Gaylen,
You'd need to create a custom catalog solution to address your requirement.
So you'd need to build the mechanism whereby you'd return a dataset based on
the userid and such. You'd need to build a management interface also to
support such an external catalog system. "Worth the effort?" is a million $
question 
"Gaylen Michael" wrote:
> 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
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