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Thanks a lot for your response.  I am slowly coming to terms.  I tried to create Customer Groups through the admin tool and was successful. 

However I am not clear about how to associate customers to customer groups automatically (not manually).  In other words, I want the application to associate a customer to a customer group as soon as he chooses his country during registration.  Does this require any programming?

The next question is about your suggestion on using the IP Address for getting the country.  I think this requires programming too.  If so, should I be modifying the Action Class?  Can you please guide me?  Even if I am able to get the IP Address the next problem would be to associate this "Yet-to-login" customer to a customer group so that the correct price is displayed.

Being a newbie to Konakart, this looks like an iceberg to me.  However I am basically a Struts developer so I can digest technically dense responses.

I have a requirement such that the price of the product is different based on the country.  If the customer's country is XYZ, then it would be less.  If it is any thing else, then it would be more.  How do I do this? 

I know there are 4 to 5 different prices that can be set for each product.  But the problem would be: How do I show these prices based on the country.  Particularly because the customer will login or sign-up only at the end.  Even after login, I am not sure how I retrieve the correct price based on his country.

Any help would be great

I see in the Admin Panel that there are many custom fields for each entity.  However what I do not understand is that how do I display these in the screen?  For example, I want to use a custom field under product to store the Author name. 

To achieve this, I think while creating the Product, I will just enter the name of the author in Product Custom 1 field.  But how will i make this display in the screen in the product Details Page.

Any help would be great.

Thanks a lot.  Now I am stuck up with the images tab.  As I already mentioned in a previous thread, the image URL and path are respectively shown as:

http://localhost:8780/konakart/images/

E:/dayasindhu/konakart/webapps/konakart/images

which correspond to my windows environment (local).  However in the Linux environment they are different.  Now, I need to change these to point to my actual Linux values.  But these are read only.  In which file should I change these?

While create a product, the image base URL and image base path shows respectively as:

http://localhost:8780/konakart/images/

E:/MyFolder/konakart/webapps/konakart/images

I want these to be changed to a different location as per my actual target deployment.  Where should I change this and how can I change this?

I am trying to create a new product through the konakart admin applicaiton.  But even after I enter many details, the Insert button is always disabled.  Hence I am unable to create new products.  Any help would be great.

Thanks again.  In your response you have mentioned that there are a few platform specific changes to be done in the initializaiton script.  May I know what they are in paritcular?

In fact the current status of my installation is that I have already completed the installation as per your suggesion and successfully ran the demo application and admin application.

However when I change any value in the admin application and click on save, I get an error as follows:

"There has been a problem.  Details of error message is not available" in a small popup window. 

Before this error I get a dialog "Loading data ... please wait".  After 2-3 minutes it displays the above error.

Your help would be great as usual :-)

Thanks for the response.  But is it ok to install in windows and port the resulting WAR into the linux environment?  Will there not be any changes in the WAR generated for Windows and that for Linux? 

And how about the Database?  In such a case how do I load the database to the remote Linux system?

Thanks.

My actual hosting environment is Linux.  But due to permission issue I am unable to install Konakart directly in the hosting environment.  It was suggested in this forum that in such a case I can install Konakart in my local environment and then copy the WAR files into the actual target environment.

However I do not have Linux environment in my desktop.  Hence I am planning to use VMWare player.  My question is that if I install Konakart using the VMWare and then copy the WAR files into the target enviornment, am I fine?  Will there be any issues with this approach?  Please note that the base OS is still Windows XP.

Your quick response will be greatly appreciated.

I am new to Konakart and would like to install this software in the Linux OS/MySQL DB.  I read in the documentation that MySQL should be using InnoDB.  But I checked with the Hosting Provider and they mentioned that their MySQL DB uses MyISAM by default and hence cannot be changed globally to InnoDB.  However the suggestion from their side was to manually alter all tables like "alter table Table1 Engine=InnoDB"

Is the above correct?  If so, where do I get the list of all tables that I should be altering for this?  If there are any other easier options als7o, please let me know.

Thanks.