MACROMEDIA DRUMBEAT 2000 ECOMMERCE EDITION, User Manual

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Setting Up Product Pages
The content on the product pages comes from the products database. To display
product information you first need to query the products database and display the
query results in an ODBC Content Table in Drumbeat. Then, you can use the
DataForm Wizard to create the product pages. If you do not have a products
database, we have included an empty Access database that you can use as a starting
point. Find the starter database file, storefront.mdb, in the Drumbeat program
files directory: <installation directory>\QuickStore\SiteAssets\Database\.
Populate the empty database with your own product information.
Below is an overview of the steps that you can follow to set up the product pages.
Understand that there are many ways that you can create the products pages. The
products pages are set up using basic Drumbeat techniques and are not unique to
building an e-commerce site with eStore. You can find instructions and examples
of different techniques by checking the index of the Drumbeat User’s Guide and
Help for the words in bold.
Before working in Drumbeat, make sure you have a products database. eStore
offers an empty database for you to use as a starter if you do not have one (see the
location noted above). You can fill in the database with your own content items.
To create the products pages in this section, you will:
Set the Site Preferences to ASP.
Set up the Publishing Settings.
Set up a Data Source Name (DSN) to the products database.
Query the products database table.
Generate DataForms using DataForm Wizard.