Saving Order Anywhere Linkers in Site Migration

[Chris]

Hi there,

This post is a parallel thought to my post on "ISPs that support
Shopsite." As I wrote in that message, we're looking for a possible new
webhost, but, despite all the praise they receive here, Lexiconn can't
help us (or at least it seems), because they run servers different from
those of our current host and a migration would destroy our "Order
Anywhere" linkers, which we use for our entire store (over 1000 products
on 100 or so pages).

Does anyone know (Loren?) of a way to migrate Shopsite to a different
platform WITHOUT reassigning all the itemnum codes that make the Order
Anywhere' buttons function?

Please help.

Christopher Roat
mlcswoodworking.com

[Stephanie]

Chris,

I moved a store from Interland to Lexiconn a few months ago and I'm in the
process of moving two other stores to Lexiconn, also from Interland.
Interland, like Verio, uses IRIX. I discovered that you do not have to
redo all of the order anywhere links. Lexiconn imported my product database
for me, and the ShopSite assigned item numbers used in the links stayed the
same. Lexiconn then did a global replace on my website to change the URL
portion of the link to point to the new ShopSite location. It was very
easy.

Just to make sure this was not an isolated occurrence, I just checked the
links of the other two stores that I am in the process of moving and all of
the item numbers that ShopSite assigned once again remained the same.

One more thing... moving your store to Lexiconn will be the best decision
you make all year. They are great to work with!

Stephanie




"Chris" <sawdust@mlcswoodworking.com> wrote in message
news:3CFBBDB0.448F066C@mlcswoodworking.com...

Hi there,

This post is a parallel thought to my post on "ISPs that support
Shopsite." As I wrote in that message, we're looking for a possible new
webhost, but, despite all the praise they receive here, Lexiconn can't
help us (or at least it seems), because they run servers different from
those of our current host and a migration would destroy our "Order
Anywhere" linkers, which we use for our entire store (over 1000 products
on 100 or so pages).

Does anyone know (Loren?) of a way to migrate Shopsite to a different
platform WITHOUT reassigning all the itemnum codes that make the Order
Anywhere' buttons function?

Please help.

Christopher Roat
mlcswoodworking.com

[Chris]

Just a thought.....once you assigned items in your stores, were they always
static or did you add and remove a lot of products, which could cause the
numbers to be in a different order if you had to re-upload the database?

Thanks for the tips, though...mind if I run it by Lexiconn?...because the "No
can do" answer was based on the reply from their tech support re "other
operating platforms."

MLCS
Chris

Stephanie wrote:

Chris,

I moved a store from Interland to Lexiconn a few months ago and I'm in the
process of moving two other stores to Lexiconn, also from Interland.
Interland, like Verio, uses IRIX. I discovered that you do not have to
redo all of the order anywhere links. Lexiconn imported my product database
for me, and the ShopSite assigned item numbers used in the links stayed the
same. Lexiconn then did a global replace on my website to change the URL
portion of the link to point to the new ShopSite location. It was very
easy.

Just to make sure this was not an isolated occurrence, I just checked the
links of the other two stores that I am in the process of moving and all of
the item numbers that ShopSite assigned once again remained the same.

One more thing... moving your store to Lexiconn will be the best decision
you make all year. They are great to work with!

Stephanie

"Chris" <sawdust@mlcswoodworking.com> wrote in message
news:3CFBBDB0.448F066C@mlcswoodworking.com...
Hi there,

This post is a parallel thought to my post on "ISPs that support
Shopsite." As I wrote in that message, we're looking for a possible new
webhost, but, despite all the praise they receive here, Lexiconn can't
help us (or at least it seems), because they run servers different from
those of our current host and a migration would destroy our "Order
Anywhere" linkers, which we use for our entire store (over 1000 products
on 100 or so pages).

Does anyone know (Loren?) of a way to migrate Shopsite to a different
platform WITHOUT reassigning all the itemnum codes that make the Order
Anywhere' buttons function?

Please help.

Christopher Roat
mlcswoodworking.com

[loren_d_c]

Chris,

There is a way to take the Products download file from your old store, re-arrange
them to sort them by their internal item number (there is a perl script you can
use to get the item numbers of the products), and then fill in any non-consecutive
gaps with placeholder records, and then upload it into a new store that had empty
databases, thereby retaining the products in the same order and with the same
itemnum as the old.

This process is outlined in the ShopSite Knowledgebase at
http://support.shopsite.com/kbase , search for S05301.

The rest of the move, as far as changing the URL's (Verio has a long URL for the
shopping cart directory that the new ISP probably won't want to emulate) goes, can
be accomplished as someone else already mentioned, by a search and replace script
that can be run through your HTML pages.

-Loren


Chris wrote:

Just a thought.....once you assigned items in your stores, were they always
static or did you add and remove a lot of products, which could cause the
numbers to be in a different order if you had to re-upload the database?

Thanks for the tips, though...mind if I run it by Lexiconn?...because the "No
can do" answer was based on the reply from their tech support re "other
operating platforms."

MLCS
Chris

Stephanie wrote:

Chris,

I moved a store from Interland to Lexiconn a few months ago and I'm in the
process of moving two other stores to Lexiconn, also from Interland.
Interland, like Verio, uses IRIX. I discovered that you do not have to
redo all of the order anywhere links. Lexiconn imported my product database
for me, and the ShopSite assigned item numbers used in the links stayed the
same. Lexiconn then did a global replace on my website to change the URL
portion of the link to point to the new ShopSite location. It was very
easy.

Just to make sure this was not an isolated occurrence, I just checked the
links of the other two stores that I am in the process of moving and all of
the item numbers that ShopSite assigned once again remained the same.

One more thing... moving your store to Lexiconn will be the best decision
you make all year. They are great to work with!

Stephanie

"Chris" <sawdust@mlcswoodworking.com> wrote in message
news:3CFBBDB0.448F066C@mlcswoodworking.com...
Hi there,

This post is a parallel thought to my post on "ISPs that support
Shopsite." As I wrote in that message, we're looking for a possible new
webhost, but, despite all the praise they receive here, Lexiconn can't
help us (or at least it seems), because they run servers different from
those of our current host and a migration would destroy our "Order
Anywhere" linkers, which we use for our entire store (over 1000 products
on 100 or so pages).

Does anyone know (Loren?) of a way to migrate Shopsite to a different
platform WITHOUT reassigning all the itemnum codes that make the Order
Anywhere' buttons function?

Please help.

Christopher Roat
mlcswoodworking.com