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I probably have 3000 items and sub-items, but have spent 9 hours building an index page for 100 products, that I had to break into 4 pages in Drupal because the system choked on the 1000+ lines of code needed to do what I wanted to do. I do not expect to have to refresh the whole menagerie every day or week, but it is awful that it takes this long to do this. I am having to work outside of the ubercart system because of the second part of the issue, that arbitrary instructions field that I need. Paypal cart lets me do this, however it loses all the ec features of ecommerce. <BR>
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Thanks for your help<BR>
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Wolf<BR>
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<TT>Message: 4</TT><BR>
<TT>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:49:19 +0100</TT><BR>
<TT>From: "FGM" <<A HREF="mailto:fgm@osinet.fr">fgm@osinet.fr</A>></TT><BR>
<TT>Subject: Re: [development] ecommerce things</TT><BR>
<TT>To: <<A HREF="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</A>></TT><BR>
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<TT>It really depends on what you call "bulk". I have such a site with over 100k </TT><BR>
<TT>SKUs, updated weekly, and creating/deleting the whole node set every week is </TT><BR>
<TT>not something you want to do. OTOH, if you're in the 1k SKUs, this is still </TT><BR>
<TT>reasonable.</TT><BR>
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<TT>The key concept for such volume use, though, appears to be lazy node </TT><BR>
<TT>creation (only create product nodes when you actually want a transaction </TT><BR>
<TT>involving them). This has been discussed recently (maybe it was one some </TT><BR>
<TT>planet blog ?), and others pointed to similar mechanisms on their own </TT><BR>
<TT>project. The problem is that ecommerce (and AFAIK, ubercart) have no support </TT><BR>
<TT>for such mechanisms, only being able to work on product nodes, not create </TT><BR>
<TT>nodes on the fly from non-drupal data.</TT><BR>
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